Category: Weekender
Desalination to supplement water supply
ENVIRONMENT WATER is an essential component for life. There is no life without water. Water is required in every form of life for survival. You can give up light but […]
Jolie alleges ‘history’ of Pitt’s physical abuse
ENTERTAINMENT Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s fight over the French winery they once owned together is coming to a head and reigniting older conflicts, as new legal documents allege a […]
Spotlight on PNG issues today
BOOKS Papua New Guinea in the twenty first Century: The Struggle for Development and independence published by the Lexington Books Division of Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. By ALAN ROBSON THIS work, […]
Warbat’s works echo across time
COVER STORY “Mi silip kirap wantaim guitar. Olgeta samting yu mas silip kirap wantaim na yu mekim…” By ANDREW MOUTU THESE are proverbial lines of wisdom from guitar wizard and […]
Look out for Nana
FILM Tribal Voice Art Link working on 45-minute short film on sorcery accusation-related violence and child protection funded by the South Pacific Commission By ALPHONSE BARIASI IN all-too-common family tale, […]
Are we still evolving?
FAITH “When common people,” says Al-Khazini, writing in the twelfth century, “hear from natural philosophers that gold is a body which has attained to perfection of maturity, to the goal […]
PNGTA role in building a new nation
EDUCATION By HENZY YAKHAM MONDAY April 1 2024 was the 53rd anniversary of Papua New Guinea Teachers Association’s (PNGTA) formal registration as an association with the industrial registrar. The PNGTA […]
Know who you are
YOUTH Advice to young people confronted with life issues By MARCEL EZRA MAPAI MY name is Marcel Efi Mapai but I used Ezra as my middle name on my two […]
How Māori was kept from dying out
LANGUAGE In these monthly discussions we answer one question about language in PNG and beyond. This month we are looking at the Māori language and ask ourselves how the language […]
Biomass – trash to treasure
ENVIRONMENT THE world is now coming to terms and realising the severity of climate related disasters and disappearance of small island states under the rising oceans. If there is going […]