Category: Editorial
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 […]
Allow schools to raise money
TWO stories from Morobe this week bring out two different aspects of operating a school. One was of a school using a bit of initiative and self-reliance in building a […]
Obey dictates of environmental law
LAST week, we learnt that environmental activists have put the future of the Papua LNG project in jeopardy. In a country that has been receiving blows such as the aftershocks […]
Time to stick strictly by rule of law
FOR a time now, as the fuel crisis deepened, a feeling of foreboding doom and gloom has crept up and settled over the nation. Everywhere we have turned, we have […]