Students' eloquent plea: Unitech needs return of Albert Schram
SAMUEL MAGIRI | PNG Blogs The sacking on Monday of Papua New Guinea’s Higher Education Minister David Arore could provide another opportunity for the PNG University of Technology vice-chancellor, Prof...
View ArticleWhere has foreign policy gone wrong? The Asianisation of Madang
SAMUEL ROTH TO ALL those who have never visited Madang, here are some facts to add onto your knowledge about people and places…. The biggest Chinese investment in PNG, Ramu Nickel Mining, is found in...
View ArticleA montage of memories
ANONYMOUS * I REMEMBER being much closer to my mother growing up as a girl child. The relationship with my father was one of affection, yet punctuated with an oddity of distance. He was a soft spoken...
View ArticleLady in white
JEFFREY MANE FEBI An entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for Poetry In a white robe, at my door she stands Don’t want to mess up, still she demands a glance It’s hot in here, cold out...
View ArticleMy Silence
CECILIA BULA An entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for Poetry My silence is the cry that you never hear, It is the pain that you can never feel Hidden by these smiles and laughter Why...
View ArticleMount Elimbari
JIMMY DREKORE An entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for Poetry You stronger than any rock You soar higher than any hawk You stood through time Still in your prime Yet you are gentle...
View ArticleIf we're serious, we must first win battle for rural development
JOHN K KAMASUA An entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & Journalism THE O’NEILL-Dion government shifted the focus of implementing the 2013 budget to...
View ArticlePNG ban on visas on arrival for Australians starts Saturday
BUSINESS ADVANTAGE PNG THE BAN on visas on arrival for Australians entering Papua New Guinea comes into effect on Saturday, making it harder for Australians to enter PNG now than for many other...
View ArticleSimbu Now and Forever
JIMMY DREKORE An entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for Poetry They call me Simbu Stone Because of my heart The treasure deep within is preserved My love is precious You will know when...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea needs a new national anthem
JOHN KAUPA KAMASUA An entry in The Crocodile Prize Cleland Family Heritage Writing Award COMRADES, brothers and sisters, and fellow travellers on the ship we all call Papua New Guinea! I am putting...
View ArticleThe ‘belkol’ concept & the re-establishment of Panguna mine
LEONARD FONG ROKA An entry in The Crocodile Prize Cleland Family Heritage Writing Award “BELKOL is the promise by Bougainville Copper Limited and Papua New Guinea that they will compensate the people...
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RAN hydrographic survey charts Bougainville waters
AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION PORT MORESBYTWO Royal Australian Navy ships yesterday began hydrographical surveys of waters between Buka and Torokina in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville to support...
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Let’s unite the black Solomons....
LEONARD FONG ROKAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryYsabel, Choiseul, Shortland and Bougainville islands make up the northern Solomons that are populated by black people in...
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Manus Island is the wrong answer to a real problem
FR GIORGIO LICINI | PNG Catholic Bishops’ ConferenceON 17 FEBRUARY the Manus saga took a turn for the worst when an Iranian asylum seeker identified as Reza Barati, 23 years of age, was murdered inside...
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Sorrow makes one a hero tomorrow
GEORGE KUIASAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryWithout sorrow life is zero We must accept fate's arrow If our efforts are thorough Our sorrow, God will borrowSorrows nicely...
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Leader’s reflection
ISHMAEL PALIPALAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryAs tiny as a tadpole Was I formed in the womb Sleeping restful without stress I was growing in the wombThe day I came out...
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I saw the rioting on Manus coming, says Archbishop of Rabaul
FRANCESCO PANFILO | Archbishop of RabaulI VISITED Manus and the refugee camp in December 2013. I was supposed to join Bishop Ambrose Kiapseni MSC of Kavieng-Manus diocese but he was not well at the...
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The beauty of a life in amiable Arawa
PHILIPPA ROBINSON | Fairfax NZ News | ExtractsI MOVED to Arawa, Bougainville, on a 12-month Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) assignment. I am library management adviser at the new public library in Arawa...
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Listen
JEFFREY MANE FEBIAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryListen to my brain Can you hear the pain? It's in my eyes falling Like a brown leaf in the storm All over my faceFalling...
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The Manus menace that's a ticking time bomb
DAVID BRIDIE | Fairfax MediaMUCH has been written about Australia's moral compass over the past few weeks. Some social commentators opine that sending asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea is cruel, not...
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