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July 28, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Sheriff Security at the Waigani Supreme and National Court have stepped up their surveillance of the court premises following this week’s lawlessness in the city. All court users including staff and visitors will be strictly monitored, says a statement. All hazardous and dangerous weapons like knives, pepper spray, mace, razor ... <a title="PNG court sheriffs clamp down on dangerous weapons, boost security" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/png-court-sheriffs-clamp-down-on-dangerous-weapons-boost-security/" aria-label="Read more about PNG court sheriffs clamp down on dangerous weapons, boost security">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. I try to write about general issues of importance, in a general – indeed global – context. This time I will write just about me. I am the same age as Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland. And I want to be appropriately protected from Covid19. I have had three shots of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Answers please? Tribulations of getting a Covid19 Vaccine ‘2nd Booster’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/keith-rankin-essay-answers-please-tribulations-of-getting-a-covid19-vaccine-2nd-booster/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Answers please? Tribulations of getting a Covid19 Vaccine ‘2nd Booster’">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby After 36 hours of unrest, fear and anxiety, Port Moresby city woke up yesterday morning to a quiet start under the watchful eyes of the police and military personnel as tensions slowly faded. Kicking off to a slow start, shops and business houses opened their doors to the public ... <a title="Port Moresby back to normal after 36 hours of election tension" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/port-moresby-back-to-normal-after-36-hours-of-election-tension/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby back to normal after 36 hours of election tension">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
The National Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has visited Guava village in the heartland of the Panguna mine in Central Bougainville to pay his respects to the resting place of Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) leader Francis Ona. It was the first time President Toroama had visited Guava in 25 years after the 1997 Roreinang coup that ... <a title="Bougainville’s Toroama visits Ona’s rebel village 25 years after civil war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/bougainvilles-toroama-visits-onas-rebel-village-25-years-after-civil-war/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville’s Toroama visits Ona’s rebel village 25 years after civil war">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Plans are underway to help Tokelauans stuck abroad, mostly in New Zealand and Samoa, to return home. The general manager for the office of the Taupulega (council of elders) of the atoll of Nukunonu, Asi Pasilio, said borders had been shut for more than two years with the country ... <a title="Tokelau keen to get its people stuck abroad back home again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/tokelau-keen-to-get-its-people-stuck-abroad-back-home-again/" aria-label="Read more about Tokelau keen to get its people stuck abroad back home again">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
RNZ News Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon says there are more important issues facing Aotearoa New Zealand than the controversy over a party social media post while he was holidaying in Hawai’i. He has admitted he was holidaying in Hawai’i last week despite his social media posts suggesting he was visiting provincial New Zealand. ... <a title="NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in Hawai’i, says Luxon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/nz-has-bigger-problems-than-a-social-media-post-while-in-hawaii-says-luxon/" aria-label="Read more about NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in Hawai’i, says Luxon">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2022
RNZ Pacific A Fiji political leader is calling out the Australian and New Zealand governments on their “deafening silence” over human rights issues in the region. The leader of the opposition National Federation Party, Professor Biman Prasad, has called out the two countries for not acknowledging what he described as “the declining standards” of democracy, ... <a title="Prasad criticises NZ, Australia over not addressing ‘democratic deficit’ in Pacific region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/26/prasad-criticises-nz-australia-over-not-addressing-democratic-deficit-in-pacific-region/" aria-label="Read more about Prasad criticises NZ, Australia over not addressing ‘democratic deficit’ in Pacific region">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2022
Inside PNG News Papua New Guinea’s Governor-General, Sir Bob Dadae, today accepted Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai’s recommendation to extend the date for the 2022 general election Return of Writs by two weeks. The new date is August 12. With three days remaining before the initial gazetted date of July 29, counting for more than half ... <a title="PNG extends election returns date by two weeks to avoid ‘failed vote’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/26/png-extends-election-returns-date-by-two-weeks-to-avoid-failed-vote/" aria-label="Read more about PNG extends election returns date by two weeks to avoid ‘failed vote’">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2022
By Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby National Capital District Metropolitan Police Superintendent Gideon Ikumu has ruled out a proposal to impose a curfew in the capital city Port Moresby in the wake of the recent spate of violence. He said the situation was expected to return to normal after soldiers yesterday joined policemen on the ... <a title="Moresby police chief rejects call for capital curfew after election violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/26/moresby-police-chief-rejects-call-for-capital-curfew-after-election-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Moresby police chief rejects call for capital curfew after election violence">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2022
RNZ Pacific The Commonwealth group that has been observing the Papua New Guinea national elections has called for an urgent review of the electoral process. The leader, former Nauru president, Baron Waqa, said he was gravely concerned at the daily incidents of violence and tragic loss of life that were being reported. The Commonwealth Observers ... <a title="Commonwealth observers call for ‘urgent review’ of PNG electoral process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/26/commonwealth-observers-call-for-urgent-review-of-png-electoral-process/" aria-label="Read more about Commonwealth observers call for ‘urgent review’ of PNG electoral process">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2022
Inside PNG News National Capital Dictrict (NCD) police have arrested 18 suspects following the slasher attacks on civilians yesterday outside Papua New Guinea’s national elections counting centre at Port Moresby’s Sir John Guise stadium. NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Gideon Ikumu said the men were “persons of interest” and police would continue investigating. “The men [suspects] are ... <a title="PNG police arrest 18 suspects following election attacks in Port Moresby" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/26/png-police-arrest-18-suspects-following-election-attacks-in-port-moresby/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police arrest 18 suspects following election attacks in Port Moresby">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2022
Political Roundup: Why James Shaw needs to go James Shaw has lost his co-leadership position in the Green Party, and there’s a good chance he won’t be able to get it back. And he shouldn’t – it won’t be good for either him or his party. When delegates at the Green Party AGM voted on his ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why James Shaw needs to go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/25/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-why-james-shaw-needs-to-go/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why James Shaw needs to go">Read more</a>
