Day: January 6, 2017
PNG fashion making waves
By ELLEN TIAMU IF you look around you on the streets of Port Moresby, you will see many more people starting to wear outfits that are professionally designed with prints […]
Great journos pass on
By MARTIN LIRI THE media fraternity in PNG is mourning the passing of two of its leading media personalities in the month of December, 2016. Susuve Laumaea, 60, from Uritai […]
The spirit of Christmas By
By PISAI GUMAR THE first glimpse of Christmas sunlight brought villagers of out in the early morning mist before the sun lighted the dewy shadows. A blanket of fog still […]
Plotting a rice field
By MALUM NALU Deep in the Markham Valley on Thursday, Dec 22, 2016 BEHIND us is Lae, to our right is Madang, straight ahead is Goroka. It’s a sweltering hot […]
Tribal fights expose weaknesses By
By KEVIN PAMBA MANY studies have been done about conflict and violence in Papua New Guinea over the years. Tribal fighting in certain parts of the Highlands region is one […]
Few to lead
By STEVEN WINDUO HAPPY New Year 2017! It takes a special kind of person to be a leader. What makes a good leader? What makes a bad leader? Answers vary […]
Oro’s Iron Lady
By HELEN TARAWA “PLEASE stop the plane. We must get on the flight. It wasn’t our fault!” These were the words of Peggy Jawodimbari, who was leading a group of […]
Loving on after 40 years
By MARY-ANNE POKAWIN THIS is not only about a love story that began 40 years ago, but is also a reminder to the younger generation, and even older ones too, […]
A play on an Italian family settling in Oz
By THOMAS HUKAHU THIS book review is special in that it is the first published script that I have read from start to finish. Yes, it is not your normal […]
A true son of Bel
By WENCESLAUS MAGUN AS winds of change on an ideological contest between an introduced colonial Westminster system of Government (Canberra) and a search to find a political path for a […]