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IT will be a weekend feast of international events happening in Port Moresby with the Under-20 women’s friendly; then the Nations Cup and then the ACP summit in Port Moresby next week.
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IT is high time the Central provincial government get its act together and open Boroko market so vendors from Central can do their trading there. Try visit one of the main markets and watch how vendors claim a section and it becomes their permanent spot. And we agree with former NCD Governor Wari Vele that vendors from Central have been victimised at various markets in Port Moresby.
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IT’S either Port Moresby needs more fuel stations or the number of cars in Port Moresby is increasing at a very fast rate. Maybe if the attendants at the station served with some customer aptitude would help reduce the queues.
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AND that brings us to suggesting a new name for Port Moresby. They say Singapore is a ‘fine’ city because of the many different penalties for various infringements. Port Moresby should now be a ‘City of Queues’.
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‘WEASEL words’ are words that are intended to, or have the effect of, softening the force of a potentially loaded or controversial statement. The term was coined by Stewart Chaplin in a 1900 short story and invokes the image of a sneaky weasel wriggling its way out of tight spaces in the same way that these words subtly redirect attention.
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IN 1979, Etan Patz left his apartment by himself, for the very first time, to walk the two blocks to his school bus stop. He never made it there. His disappearance was widely covered by the media and led to the implementation of new methods for tracking down missing children, such as the milk carton campaigns of the 1980s. In 2010, the Manhattan district attorney announced that he had reopened the case into Patz’s disappearance.
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BILL Bojangles Robinson was an influential virtuoso tap dancer. An innovator, he was reputedly the first to dance on the balls of his feet instead of in the earlier flat-footed style. He began dancing professionally at the age of eight and became a popular nightclub and vaudeville performer. He first performed on Broadway in 1928 and was the first African American to star in a Ziegfield Follies.
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QUOTE of the day: The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. – Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)
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