Day: November 15, 2019
Western star rising from Daru
COVER STORY By REBECCA KUKU SEBASTIAN Sambasivam is a name that is quickly rising in the fashion industry. The young man from a mixed parentage of Malaysian Indian and Daru […]
PEOPLE
Shadrick puts off school to sprint By ENAMYRA ANI UPNG Journalism student PACIFIC Games gold medalist Shadrick Tansi says he had seen his family struggle in tough times so he […]
Miracle unfolding in Manus
EDUCATION FOR the first time since political independence in 1975 some 44 years ago, in the smallest province of Papua New Guinea with a population of approximately 65,000, a minor […]
Honoured for loyal service PNG
BY JEFFREY ELAPA OUSTANDING People who serve others often go unrecognised. However, a few whose work gets recognised are honoured and awarded medals for their services by PNG’s monarch. The […]
Farmers benefit from banking service
FARMING By NIKINTS TIPTIP LILIAN Martin, in her early 30s, is an illiterate farmer from Gabsokeg Village outside Nadzab Aiport in the Huon Gulf District of Morobe. Originally from the […]
ART
PNG art exhibition woos Bristbane By GIMA SEGORE THE recent exhibition of contemporary art by Port Moresby street artists in Brisbane exceeded all expectations. It was curated by Don […]
How literature can deliver for the country
LITERATURE By DUMBON KUMBON IT WAS like slowly, scaling the steep ice-covered walls of Mt Everest as we three writers waited for more than a month to present a petition […]
TRIBUTE
Remembering Sister Fairhall By Rev SEIK PITOI I HAD always known for many years a little United Church congregation in the suburb of Gordons-Erima as being the Gordons United Church. […]
Finding a forgotten friend 50 years later
PEOPLE By DANIEL KUMBON HOW does one react when you suddenly find a friend after losing contact with him for many years? My impulse was to contact him immediately when […]
Fired by resentment and cargo cults
BOUGAINVILLE By MORESI RUAHMAA BEGINNING on Nov 23, Bougainvilleans in and outside of region will go to the polls for a week to decide on their future political destiny. This […]