Day: November 2, 2018
Toka dream coming true
BY JEFFREY ELAPA Motu-Koitabu elder, Sir Dadi Toka believes that it was God’s will and plan for him to be the only surviving pioneer interim council member of the Motu-Koitabu […]
Medicos shine through calamity
By PETER WARI THE health sector in Southern Highlands was able to weather some huge challenges brought on by the February earthquake and political mayhem quite unlike other government institutions […]
Mekeo totem poles removed peacefully
By PHILOMENA OAEKE SALIAU As I stride around the corners of my home, I think of my culture for without it, who wilI I be and where will I be? […]
Please help me save my apples!
By EREBIRI ZURENUOC I bumped into Adonis Guiye, an apple farmer from Menyamya during the Morobe Agriculture Show last weekend. I had come across a few people from Menyamya who […]
WITNESS
The highway connecting East and West Sepik is nnow being upgraded. At this section at Wulukum village, between the districts of Nuku and Lumi, work has started. The work is […]
Government hold-up blamed for delay in cancer machine
I LEARNED from a most reliable source that there are very important requirements that the Government needs to fulfil before bringing a Cobalt-60 teletherapy marchine into the country for the […]
Morata warning affects livelihoods
I write to seek further explanation on the presence of the polio virus in my part of the community. I am a resident of Morata Four, in Port Moresby, and […]
God is the way
IT does not matter how low you feel in life; Christ is still waiting with open arms to receive those who call upon him. As the saying goes, God does […]
Using students as political pawns
AFTER the successful ousting of Sir Julius Chan’s government during the Sandline scandal in 1997, the politicians, particularly the opposition, saw the students as a means to exploit and use […]
Healthcare queries raised
Papua New Guinea’s health system is in crisis. Tuberculosis is at epidemic levels, polio has re-emerged, maternal and child mortality rates are among the worst in the world and malaria […]