LESS than 60 days to Christmas! Good morning all – and if you live here in the capital, there’s a most pleasant occasion in store for you tonight. Read on.
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THOSE of us who have been in Port Moresby for a few years have come to depend upon Port Moresby Choral Society for classic seasonal music, not only at Christmas but at Easter and at other great occasions, both secular and spiritual, during the year.
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THE society will present a concert at 7.30 tonight in the now traditional setting of St John’s Cathedral, Mary Street, next door to the Crowne Plaza; it has excellent acoustics and cool breezes waft through the cathedral windows. The programme will include a fascinating mixture of music drawn from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
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HEARING a selection of music from a wide variety of classical and contemporary composers performed in public in PNG is something of a rarity; we urge you not to miss tonight’s concert. There’s no admission charge, but donations would be most welcome. We hope to see you there tonight.
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MANY Papua New Guineans are curious about the PNG Government’s foreign policies. For example: The Somare government is most vocal in its support of the growth of democracy in the South Pacific, as demonstrated at the recent regional forum.
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BUT has the same government expressed any views on the continued detention of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar – or more familiarly Burma – by a gaggle of non-elected military dictators? This week marks the 12th anniversary of her house arrest.
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RECENTLY, according to Madang scribbler Spy, a security company took over a colonial era house on the town’s main road as a headquarters. That side of Modilon Road – Madang’s main traffic artery – is apparently strictly residential, or was until the hideous razor wire and panel fencing appeared.
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THE old boy wonders which body authorised this invasion, why they did so, and why the owners of the many high covenant residences adjoining were never consulted. Or is it just another case of urban corruption at work?
– Dee Nesenolis