Tari-Pori district

Prime Minister and Tari-Port District Development Authority (DDA) Chairman, James Marape said he will support the DDA to achieve this when presiding over the district’s first DDA meeting for 2023. 

The meeting was held on Thursday 2nd February at Pangale Haus in Tari which is the Tari-Pori DDA office.

At the meeting, Prime Minister Marape announced that each district in PNG had been allocated K10 million in District Services Improvement Programme with an additional K5 million for priority infrastructure. He urged his DDA members to work on Tari-Pori District priorities. 

Since the killing of the LLG councillor on the 28th of March, a tribal warfare has now escalated in Tari Pori district.

This newsroom has been told that the death toll has steadily risen since the tribal fight started.

The recent killing occurred on April 5, where two people were killed. This brings the total number of fatalities to 12 while countless others have been hospitalised.

It was also revealed that the Tari General Hospital is now being run by the PNG Defence Force medical team after staff had vacated the premises in fear of their lives.