Day: February 24, 2017
Filming a dying language
By ELLEN TIAMU A FILM is being made to help to document a dying language once popular with Vunapope’s mixed race German community in East New Britain. Rabaul Creole German […]
Why are our languages dying?
By CRAIG ALAN VOLKER LANGUAGE TOKTOK A monthly discussion about language in PNG and beyond IN this monthly discussion we will answer one question about language in PNG and beyond. […]
Memories of a fading police officer
By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK THE years from 1970 to 1980 were the formative years of Papua New Guinea’s nationhood with the Royal Police Constabulary proudly standing out as one of the […]
Dicing with the law
By JUNIOR UKAHA THE place is deserted. Smoke is rising from the remnants of burnt down shelters, tables and stools that once graced this seaside buai market. About a dozen […]
Fear of the sea still haunts
By LARRY ANDREW SISTERS Grace and Amethyst Kunsei of Madang and West New Britain parents are still finding it difficult to go back to the sea. They don’t swim or […]
Vanuatu’s Torba province to ban Western junk food
THE next time you holiday in Vanuatu, don’t expect to see any M&Ms or Mars Bars in every hotel minibar. The Pacific nation’s northern Torba province is set to ban […]
Rulino’s tale of life
By HENRICK YAMO THERE are many things in PNG that go unrecorded. People’s individual experienceof the war is one. Experiences from taim bipo is another. There are also old people […]
Just a touch of Paradise
By APA KAGL THE new day inevitably dawned without a restful night. My host Newton and I walked around the neighborhood and I was introduced to Paps John Dau who […]
Rubbish, rubbish everywhere
By ELIAS LARI MOUNT Hagen is the third largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is a nice cool place with nice cool people. They say that when you are […]
Answering your job search woes
By LEMACH LAVARI YOUNG people can now get help with finding employment or developing their careers for those who are already in employment. PNG Career Development Inc. is a professional […]