Day: April 1, 2020
Covid-19 and the Pacific
What will Covid-19 mean for the Pacific? Right now, the effects of the virus are poised on the edge of sweeping into the region, Terence Wood writes IT’S difficult to […]
Dephnie soldiers on, with God by her side
By MICHELLE AUAMOROMORO DEPHNIE Kelly, 37, whose parents are from Western Highlands and Morobe, posted the following on her Facebook account two days before her graduation on March 15: “Life […]
Column 1
Different reasons You will immediately call the police when you see men wearing masks entering a bank. Today everyone is required to wear a mask when entering a bank. How […]
WITNESS
IT is not known how the passengers of this vehicle escaped this accident along the Frigate Street and Butibam Road junction in Lae recently. The vehicle was heading to Voco […]
Take effective measures
THE coronavirus uprising around the world is scaring Papua New Guineans. People in urban centres will be badly affected more than those in the villages who have food crops available. […]
Popularity contest
The tussle continues. The job of getting out information and update to the public on the coronavirus in the country is now a tussle between the Health Minister Jelta Wong […]
Split benefits
WHILE the uplifting of the restraining order by the National Court was good news for the stakeholders of the Wafi-Golpu gold and copper project, it is quite saddening that the […]
Assist stranded citizens
GOVERNMENT authorities are faced with the challenge of devising appropriate quarantine protocols for the entry of stranded Papua New Guineans after the lockdown period. Any new imported Covid-19 cases from […]
Monitor case closely
PAPUA New Guinea has so far registered one positive coronavirus case. This one case is on the tally sheet provided by the World Health Organisation, John Hopkins university centre of […]
Matter of priorities
THE report ‘Indonesia’s medical workers threaten to stop treating Covid-19 patients’ in the Southeast Asian Times on March 30 makes for a very depressing reading. We learn from the grim […]