Navin Raju

On Friday, January 12, main shopping centres in the city opened their doors to shoppers. One such step, needed to encourage the restoration of normalcy to scared residents and citizens alike.

CPL Group opened up doors to Stop & Shop Waigani Central, Town, Boroko and Airways along with City Pharmacy Waigani Drive, Boroko and Vision City, despite suffering major losses in Wednesday’s riots.

Raju’s statement follows decisions by the government including imposing public holidays and the recent liquor ban, which need a more effective consultation process.

According to Mr. Raju, sudden announcements of public holidays or restrictions on liquor trading without prior consultation can have severe economic consequences, leading to significant losses for businesses.

Stop N Shop at Central Waigani started with the first vaccination in front of the shop yesterday.

A moment of silence was observed in remembrance of the front line health workers in PNG who have passed away with infections from COVID-19, including a medical doctor.

During the opening of the vaccination rollout from CPL Group CEO Navin Raju, expressed gravity of the situation on COVID-19 vaccination by referring to a report from New York Times that PNG is listed 149^th out of 160 countries (Vaccination coverage).