World Bank AS A DECADE OF STRONG economic growth comes to an end, Papua New Guinea’s policy makers face new challenges to achieve lasting improvements in living standards. The World Bank recommends continued efforts to reduce costs of regulation; to...
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Growth in PNG strong, but boom is coming to end
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What is time?
GANJIKI D WAYNE | Supported by the Bea Amaya Writing Fellowship What is time? Mere measure of the length of each our stays In our brackets in eternity The length of each our songs playing at different tempos To different...
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Politics: A post mortem of the Sukundumi impasse
FRANCIS NII | Supported by the South Pacific Strategic Solutions Writing Fellowship YESTERDAY I INADVERTENTLY came across the biography of Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare in Wikipedia. As I browsed, the memory unfolded of the political impasse between the Grand...
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Tracing relatives of the late cartoonist Bob Browne
ALEX GOLUB I WAS WONDERING if PNG Attitude readers could help me out with a Papua New Guinea expatriate question. I'm publishing a book on Porgera with Duke University Press and I'd like to reprint a cartoon by the late...
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Are we talking polygamy; or are we talking property?
PETER KRANZ IS POLYGAMY TO BLAME for some of Papua New Guinea’s social ills, or is it that some men treat women like property? And, if so, who are the guilty parties? I recently visited some good friends - an...
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Death of pioneering PNG patrol officer Jack Karukuru
ALLAN TARUA ONE OF THE FIRST Papua New Guinean patrol officers, Assistant District Commissioners then departmental head, Jack Karukuru, passed away on New Year’s eve at around 6.30-7.00pm. I admired him for what he did for this country and, even...
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Instead of banning betel nut, let’s try other ideas
FRANCIS NII | Supported by the South Pacific Strategic Solutions Writing Fellowship THERE ARE FAMILIES in Port Moresby city that survive on income from selling buai and the proposal by the National Capital District Council to impose a blanket ban...
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Don’t say ethnic or tribal - the word is ‘customary’
ANNA SOMERS COCKS | The Art Newspaper IN LONDON LAST NOVEMBER, the director of the Tate Gallery, Nicholas Serota, said that it would be spending around £2m a year—40% of its acquisitions budget—on art from outside Europe and North America....
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A tale of two Fly Rivers; a tale of two journalists
SHARON ISAFE | PNGExposed Blog IN A RECENT ARTICLE published in the Global Mail, freelance journalist Jo Chandler (pictured) discovered the secret behind a spate of deaths along the Fly River. It's no mystery she wrote, sadly the disturbing mortality...
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Women advocates confuse gender equality & feminism
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN | Supported by the Phil Fitzpatrick Writing Fellowship WE ARE CONVINCED that the ‘pedestal’ women leaders in Papua New Guinea, who espouse demagogical rhetoric and make discriminatory speeches about the opposite sex at forums and courses...
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PNG failing to act on forced marriages, says rights group
Radio Australia A NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION in Papua New Guinea says the PNG government has failed to act to protect young girls and teenagers from forced marriages. There are reports that girls as young as five are being sold by their...
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PNG confident after a year of strong performance
Oxford Business Group AFTER ANOTHER YEAR of strong economic performance, Papua New Guinea is brimming with confidence. The 2013 budget, announced in November and valued at K13 billion, is PNG’s largest-ever and one which the government is borrowing more than...
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Attitude’s most commented upon articles in December
KEITH JACKSON ONE OF THE GREAT things about PNG Attitude is the way in which its readers also become its contributors through the Recent Comments feature, which provides one of the social media’s most civilised and scintillating forums for discussion...
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New Wycliffe aircraft to support Bible translation
Christian Today WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES is raising funds to purchase a fourth specially designed Kodiak aircraft to support its Bible translation efforts in Papua New Guinea. Bible translation projects are underway for more than 190 of PNG’s 830 language groups but...
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PNG Attitude’s most commented upon articles in 2012
KEITH JACKSON ONE OF PNG ATTITUDE’s most popular features happens to be the summary of the articles (as well as poems, stories and essays) most commented upon by readers in the preceding month. Today we review these 150 or so...
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If you don’t know where you’ve come from….
PHIL FITZPATRICK IF YOU DON’T KNOW where you’ve come from, how on earth can you expect to know where you are going? Late last year I visited a village at the northern end of the Yuat Gorge. While the people...
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Namah says Manus detention camp unconstitutional
Radio New Zealand International PAPUA NEW GUINEA’s opposition leader, Belden Namah, says Australia’s Manus detention centre and asylum seekers scheme is unconstitutional. Mr Namah told a news conference he is seeking a Supreme Court interpretation. He said he wants clarification...
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Let not PNG’s contemporary culture slip away from us
ARTHUR WILLIAMS | The Ancient Silures Tribe of Cardiff I HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED finding out the local history of any place where I was temporarily living. Alas, even here in the UK, history appears to be as poorly treated as...
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PNG's social media getting bigger & more complex
MARTYN NAMORONG | Supported by the Chalapi Pomat Writing Fellowship IT IS GENERALLY OBSERVED that Papua New Guinea’s internet discussion forums - like Sharp Talk on Facebook - are becoming lost in the ‘noise’ generated by their members, such that...
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Australian firm wins Newcrest contract at Lihir
Business Spectator AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERING and project management company Ausenco Ltd has secured a three-year contract to manage a portfolio of projects at Newcrest Mining Ltd’s Lihir gold operation in Papua New Guinea. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange,...
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