Day: April 20, 2018
Kokoda day proposed to honour wartime carriers
By MALUM NALU AS Anzac Day next Wednesday nears, it is timely to be reminded that Australia was unprepared for the war in the Pacific in 1942. The defence of […]
A women’s group with a mission
By JINA AMBA A self-sustaining women’s group in Jiwaka is aiming to promote culture, traditions and knowledge and ideas on bilum weaving and floriculture. The Jiwaka Kon and Kolum-Alim Group […]
The Lae City Pride Campaign
By MAINE WINNY In the colonial days Lae was a vibrant green and beautiful garden city in PNG and the Pacific. Lae was the golden gateway to Wau and Bulolo […]
WITNESS
Workers from a service station next door trying to remove water from a flooded road using a wheelbarrow and buckets. This section of 8th Street in Lae’s Top Town floods […]
Mendi Muruks praised for home win
I CONGRATULATE PRK Mendi Muruks for their first home win against the Port Moresby Vipers last week in Mendi. Despite the round-one loss to their fierce rivals and neighbouring team […]
Mori challenged
THE shallow-mindedness of parliamentarians these days never ceases to amaze me. Minister Wera Mori, your dignity and integrity was compromised the moment you defended the NCDC-funded yoga programme. Mori defended […]
Sausage factory closure
THE Lae City Council finally closed the sausage factory at 2-Mile in Lae after settlers there complained of foul smell. This goes back to as far as 2014. The company’s […]
Moving into city
HOW can we discourage or stop people drifting into Port Moresby by enforcing the ban on betel nut and street vending activities? If we are to portray our capital city’s […]
Madang leaders commended
THANK you to Madang MP Bryan Kramer, Governor Peter Yama, community leaders, peace mediators and police personnel for helping to avert what could have been a nasty situation in Madang […]
Lutheran missionaries
THE newspaper article, “No support for deported missionaries”, in The National on Monday (April 16) raises many questions and concerns. Our day-to-day contact with pastors, members, and churches of the […]