Sir John Guise Stadium

Tkatchenko brushed aside recent media reports of the facilities being too expensive and not available for the people to use.

He said PNG is lucky to have these facilities that are for the people, including the grassroots and to ensure that the people have access to these facilities all the time.

“We are building these facilities for our people to use for our local sports so at the end of the day, the facilities are for the people and they will be available for the people at all times,” he said.

Both K50 grand stand and K25 outer stand tickets have sold out as of this afternoon at three of the seven Stop N Shop outlets including Town, Badili and North Waigani.

According to shop assistants, a few hundred tickets are still available at only Central Waigani and Rainbow outlets.

The National Events Secretariat confirmed that tickets must be only purchased from Stop n Shop with all proceeds going towards children’s hospitals throughout PNG.

Tickets and bags will be checked for the safety of all visitors and gates will open at 2pm and close at 4:30pm.