NOVEMBER 22, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has given his support to development of the oil palm industry in Papua New Guinea on a massive scale. PM Marape gave his support after he and East Sepik Governor, Hon. Allan Bird, met with representatives of Pacific Elite Palm Oil Group in Singapore on Monday (November […]

NOVEMBER 18, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him an undertaking to buy more or all that Papua New Guinea produces. The undertaking was made during a bilateral meeting between President Xi and PM Marape on the sidelines of APEC 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand, today (Friday, November 18,

NOVEMBER 17, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has invited the United States of America to invest in downstream processing in Papua New Guinea, especially in fisheries. He made the invitation to US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of APEC 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand, today. PM Marape said

NOVEMBER 3, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says the Government is investing in key infrastructure development such as the K125.7 million Kavieng Airport Development. He said this on Thursday, November 3, 2022, when opening the project which he launched in June 2020, built through the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Civil Aviation Development Investment Programme

OCTOBER 26, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says parents should be responsible for the education of their children and not expect the Government to do everything. He said this today when presenting K158 million to Education Minister Hon. Jimmy Uguro – the last tranche of the K632 million for 2022 – for school fee

OCTOBER 14, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says the National Government and the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) tried to intervene in the land case at Morata in Port Moresby on Wednesday, however, could not do much because of an existing court order. Hundreds of families have been forced to vacate their homes at

OCTOBER 13, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says the increasing number of school leavers with no spaces in higher education institutions is an issue that needs to be seriously addressed. He said this in Parliament today (October 13, 2022) when responding to a ministerial statement by Higher Education Research Science and Technology Minister, Hon.

OCTOBER 12, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has welcomed Australian Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Richard Marles into Papua New Guinea. He is in PNG for the opening of the Australian-funded Angau Memorial Hoospital in Lae tomorrow (October 13, 2022), which will be attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Lae MP, Hon. John Rosso, on

OCTOBER 12, 2022 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape, MP, has thanked Japanese Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, H.E. Nobuyuki Watanabe, for arranging a fruitful meeting recently with Japanese Prime Minister Hon. Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, Japan. They met in Port Moresby on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, where PM Marape thanked the Ambassador, saying amongst the

OCTOBER 11, 2022 THE people of Tari-Pori district in Hela are hardworking, self-reliant and law-abiding people many of whom are engaged in micro to big businesses but for few lawbreakers, not dissimilar to many ethnicities of Papua New Guinea. Prime Minister and Tari-Pori MP stated this today as he said it was “wrong” of Deputy