{"id":30315,"date":"2021-03-29T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/png-government-officials-company-awarded-lucrative-covid-catering-contract"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T02:02:34","slug":"png-government-officials-company-awarded-lucrative-covid-catering-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30315","title":{"rendered":"PNG government official&#8217;s company awarded lucrative Covid catering contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister James Marape to set up investigation into AU$200,000 contract for Caring Ltd to provide catering services<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A company, one of whose directors is a senior official within Papua New Guinea\u2019s department of health was paid more than 539,000 kina (A$200,000) to provide catering including for a Covid isolation unit in the capital from May to November last year.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations have prompted the country\u2019s prime minister, James Marape, to call for a full investigation into the catering contract and the tender process by which it was obtained.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/png-government-officials-company-awarded-lucrative-covid-catering-contract\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister James Marape to set up investigation into AU$200,000 contract for Caring Ltd to provide catering servicesSee all our coronavirus coverageA company, one of whose directors is a senior official within Papua New Guinea\u2019s department of healt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,874,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30316,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30315\/revisions\/30316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}