Papua New Guinea

1.650 public servants will retire in 2026 within the public retirement plan started in 2019, adding to the 3.635 that finished their careers in 2019-2015; starting 2027 all government agencies will budget for their retirees in their workforce planning

On the sidelines of the Melanesian Oceans Summit held in Port Moresby on 11 May, PNG and Timor-Leste have agreed to open embassies in each other's capitals

6th Pacific Regional Energy and Transport Ministers Meeting PRETMM will start tomorrow in Port Moresby and run to 8 May under the theme “Scaling Connectivity for a Prosperous Blue Pacific”, focused on connectivity and sustainability across island nations

Evictions could violate human rights: this is the concern expressed by the head of PNG Church, Sir John Cardinal Ribat, who warns against evictions that don't follow proper procedures, leaving families homeless

Considering conditions at Baisu Prison " a breach of the Constitution", Judge Graham Ellis ordered the Correctional Services to report within June 2026 the full extent of conditions of the 21 prisons and 7 lock-ups in Papua New Guinea

Bryan Chan Pokiton, from the Institute of Business Studies University in Boroko, has been selected as Pacific regional representative at the Commonwealth Student Association, and will soon join the upcoming meeting of fellow young leaders in London

40 luxury Maserati cars, controversially brought to PNG for the APEC Leaders' Summit in 2018, are lying in a shed, uninsured, losing value and exposing the State to risk of loss for fire or theft; a new physical assessment of their condition is due soon

A fire destroyed a commercial building housing a number of businesses in Mendi, southern highlands; started at the generator house after a power failure, it was fought by local boys with buckets, lacking fire brigade service and water tankers

Partial privatization of state energy company PNG Pover Ltd. is moving on after years of lack of initiative, notwithstanding progress in talks; the government is considering options that would benefit customers and investors and a transparent process

A training program for small-to-medium entrepreneurs in Wampar has seen the participation of over 1000 people, with the explicit intent of channelling energies into useful, community building activities, avoiding risk of criminal involvement