Category: Editorial
March for the law commendable
ELA Beach Drive, lined by beautiful palm and green shrubbery in this time of rain, was a flood of moving be-gowned lawyers in their distinctive black and white last Friday. […]
Amazing appointments need scrutiny
OUT of Imbonggu district, Southern Highlands, comes two remarkable cases for legal examination. Imbonggu Member and Justice Minister Pila Niningi told this newspaper last week that his nephew McRonald Nale, […]
Guided democracy will help PNG
WHEN Papua New Guinea walked into Independence, it only had the system practised by its colonisers for guidance. And it chose it without a second thought. Had it deliberated on […]
Learn from the success of Vietnam
PAPUA New Guinea would do well to look to the small Southeast Asian country of Vietnam for some lessons in economic planning, execution and growth. There are powerful lessons to […]
Madang staggers amid sea of problems
FROM the very beginning when the incumbent Madang governor, Ramsey Pariwa, walked into his office after the 2022 National General Elections, many in the province may have wondered what his […]
Honour your word, leader
EVERY person is bound to a leader by the trust and confidence he places in that leader. Every leader, in his turn, is bound to his people by his word […]
Treat referendum ratification urgently
THE Bougainville crisis has its beginnings way back in 1962 with the Hahalis Welfare Society uprising on Buka Island when that organisation refused to pay the head tax to the […]
Hilton peace talks raise security concerns
THERE are said to be five current tribal fights in Enga. Two of these fights, at Laiagam and most recently in Wapenamanda districts, have produced the most number of deaths […]
Pope’s visit is an honour
HE is head of the world’s largest church denomination boasting more than a billion followers. He is also head of the tiniest state with a population of fewer than a […]
Give Uguro the rest he earned
EDUCATION Minister Jimmy Uguro’s body was found in a Wewak hotel room, East Sepik, on Feb 6. He had died, apparently from a massive heart attack, in the middle of […]