Day: August 24, 2018
What it means to be humanitarian
By KAIRI KURUKURU – World Vision Communications International Humanitarian Day (IHD) fell on August 19. World Vision, which has been involved with humanitarian work in the country, is glad to […]
War on picks up
By GLENDA AWIKIAK Lymphatic filariasis (LF) commonly known as elephantiasis is a disease that is silently affecting a good number of people in Papua New Guinea. It is present in […]
Parkop out to change young minds
By WANPIS AKO It was 8.43am on a Friday and I was on the road in my car; the flow of traffic abated along Waigani Drive in the capital city. […]
Lifeline of rural communities
By PATRICK MARCO In PNG, over six million people, approximately 87 per cent of the population, live in rural communities and the majority depend on subsistence agriculture as a means […]
Elder fears loss of mother tongue
By MARJORIE FINKEO SOME communities in PNG today speak introduced common languages and the loss of their very own mother tongues soon is a real worry. “Don’t you sometimes wonder […]
Disability no barrier to creativity
By JOE GURINA IT is always inspiring to see people living with disabilities doing extraordinary things to match able-bodied persons in some human endeavours such as music. Thus it mellows […]
Two vows, two crops
By WILSON PUNIM When Joe missed out on a place in a higher or tertiary institution after Grade 12, he decided to head home to his village away from the […]
Reflections on an office family
By Rev SEIK PITOI The computer room was manned by just a handful of operators. There were two shifts that ran in the mornings and evenings. Only on payroll processing […]
The making of a lawyer
By SAMSON JOHN Two weeks ago the PNG Training Institute (LTI) hosted its first ever open day in its 45 years. The event targeted secondary schools taking legal studies as […]
Tribute to an anti-corruption warrior
By KEVIN PAMBA “Corruption is an insidious plague that has a wide range of corrosive effects on societies.” Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General 2004. As the world comes to terms with […]