Day: November 22, 2019
Health advice in a foreign land
TRIBUTE Freelance writer DANIEL KUMBON remembers former Health Minister Jamie Maxtone-Graham for a personal moment during a meeting at an international conference in Mexico City. JAMIE Maxtone-Graham encouraged me to […]
Is it a pine tree or a cellphone tower?
TECHNOLOGY ‘Stealth’ structures multiply as wireless technology grows in the US FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida: TIFFANY Crump sat outside of a pizza place near the Deerfield Beach city hall recently and […]
HEALTH
How addiction happens RUNNING into a former drinking buddy or passing a once-favourite bar can cause recovering alcoholics to relapse. But the biology behind why those setbacks happen was a […]
Pastor Joe rescuing lost sheep
By JAMES GUMUNO PASTOR Joe Aki’s motto is “Change nobody to be somebody.” To him it simply means to be more proactive than just merely yelling from the pulpit during […]
From Samoa with love, and hope
COLLEGE student Epifania Petelo, 20, believes that behind every girl is a journey and a story – something she is bringing to the Miss Pacific Islands pageant in Port Moresby […]
Benefitting from two worlds
TAHITIAN beauty Herevai Hoata, 22, is enjoying life in both worlds – the traditional and the western. She is among the 12 island queens from Pacific nations vying for the […]
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Power outages Even the daily power outages are affecting the sitting of the inquiry into the procurement, supply and distribution of medicine in PNG at Parliament. Public Accounts Committee chairman […]
WITNESS
THE car park at the Tutumang Haus (Provincial government house) at Top Town in Lae, Morobe, is currently being upgraded. With Lae being the second largest city in the country, […]
High cholesterol a rising health hazard
IN Papua New Guinea, life-style disease is rising daily and the common health threat is high levels of cholesterol. To understand high blood cholesterol (ko-LES-ter-ol), it helps to learn about […]
Letters in brief
Players lack discipline: DO you think PNG should send more local players overseas to compete in competitions (NRL and Super League)? Definitely, but the problem is funding and logistics to […]