Change Madang’s name to Paradise

IT was a great joy for me to see all my political leaders of Madang, including my good Governor Peter Yama choose the people of Madang over political affiliations and moved to the Government benches to support Prime Minister James Marape to continue the good work of the country.
I am a bush economist and an observer who observed how our natural and human resources in Madang were used by many to develop the country that was supposed to be named paradise.
My research has confirmed that the name paradise was declared and given by the German scientist by the name of Carl Hannsten at Sarang Harbour on Mt Mugubem in Madang in 1883 when Joseph Loag and the German New Guinea Company first came into contact with my great grandfather’s father, Didol, who was the landowner of the forest that the bird of paradise, called Iyohb in our language, was found.
Didol had a pet bird of paradise which he named Gumul, meaning beautiful dancer.
The bird was so beautiful and the German scientist got the bird and named it as paradis-ee or paradise and that was how the name of the bird of paradise came to be.
The name of our country should be named Paradise.
I suggest that our province should be named paradise because that was our real identity which the Germans discovered in the 1880s.
What do you think?

CWT
Bush Economist