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The National, Wednesday 15th May 2013
CITY residents are now calling on the authority that worked the magic and transformed the roads overnight for the Australian Prime Minister’s visit to wave the magic wand one more time. This time kindly direct it towards the inner streets of the residential suburbs which are filled with potholes and have not seen government-funded sealing in years.
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INTERESTING to note that Julia Gillard visited the grave site of the only woman to be buried here, Sister Marie Craig, who died in a plane crash on the way back to Australia at the end of the war.
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FOR years it has been one of rugby league’s best-kept secrets. Few even wondered whether former Hull KR and FC player Stanley Gene himself knew his actual age. However, at a birthday dinner, raising funds for people in his home country of Papua New Guinea, the answer has finally been revealed – Stan the man is 39.
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THE rugby legend once described himself as being like “good red wine”, which gets better with age. But he kept tight-lipped about how old he was, until now.He revealed his age after digging out his birth certificate and hosting a birthday party in aid of his foundation at the Swiss Cottage pub in Bilton, England.
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A GROUP of 19 young men who changed their ways from being criminals to Christians have trekked across Papua New Guinea to raise funds to build a chapel in their village. They went from Buang village near Finschhafen to the provincial capital Lae and then on to Port Moresby.
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PORT Moresby is one of the world’s most dangerous cities, but photojournalist and war correspondent Stephen Dupont found it a rich source for his latest portraiture. The Sydney-based photographer, who has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Rwanda and been published in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, chose to document detribalisation in Papua New Guinea’s crime-ridden capital after he was awarded a Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography in 2010.
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FINALLY waste at Rainbow was collected on Monday afternoon after almost a month. Residents hope the collection times will not be according to its scheduled and not wait for another four weeks before their heap is collected. Some have resorted to paying contractors to collect their waste.
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THE revival of the ECP is good news and brings back some hope in the public to see the police officers step up with their professional conduct both during and off official hours; grooming; punctuality and, most of all, to win back the public support and trust.
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SOME of our good officers will learn more about the rules of engagement and the procedure procedures on when to carry firearms and what one can and can do while in procession of one. Wonder if they were taught that at the training college.