Three eggs minus one - Part 1
MARLENE DEE GRAY POTOURAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Steamships Award for Short StoriesDarkness.Deep piercing darkness.Like a blanket rolled out before her. Thick and foggy.The coverlet of blackness...
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Bougainville Copper eyes return to Panguna mine
BRIAN ROBINS | The AgeBOUGAINVILLE Copper Limited is to open an office on Bougainville this year as sentiment begins to build within Papua New Guinea for a resumption of mining of the giant Panguna...
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My sacking politically motivated, says ex fisheries director
LAISA TAGA | Islands Business | ExtractsMISSING from an important Pacific states’ fisheries conference currently being held in Honiara is Sylvester Pokajam, until recently managing director of the...
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Lonely headstone
JIMMY DREKOREAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryLooking out, hoping and waiting Searching about, wishing and dreaming Beyond the clouds my mind sails Fond memories rekindle...
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Croc Prize – your turn to nominate a literary lifetime achiever
PHIL FITZPATRICKTHE PNG Crocodile Prize for Literature is shaping up as an internationally recognised annual literary competition with all the trappings that come with that sort of status, including...
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New Ireland identity arrested for standing up to illegal logging
ACT NOW!ENVIRONMENT advocate and President of Lavongai Local Level Government, John Aini, has been charged by Kavieng Police and is on K200 bail for threatening to kill Malaysians involved in logging...
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This is my land
ILANGIN SANGKOLAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryThis is my land of Valleys and plains and rugged terrain crystal clear creaks and coral reefs The land of the beauty and...
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Revisiting Russell Soaba’s first & timeless novel ‘Wanpis’
PHIL FITZPATRICKI RECENTLY got hold of the 2012 UPNG reprint of Russell Soaba’s first novel Wanpis. The original was published by the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies and Kristen Press in...
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Dealing with tradition today: the case of the excessive price of a bride
ISHMAEL PALIPALAn entry in The Crocodile PrizePNG Chamber of Mines & PetroleumAward for Essays & JournalismIN BOUGAINVILLE most women are not paid to become wives because they own land and...
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Mackay Cutters didn’t win in Kokopo, but a ‘best life experience’
It was a first for Australia’s Intrust Super rugby league cup last weekend when the PNG Hunters hosted their maiden game at Kalabond Oval in Kokopo, defeating the Mackay (Queensland) Cutters 24-16....
View ArticleThree eggs minus one. Part 2
MARLENE DEE GRAY POTOURAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Steamships Short Story AwardMARITA’S children sat around her, as she recounted the dream she had last night. She had tears in her eyes as she...
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My Black Island Home
LEONARD FONG ROKAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryMy Buka My Bougainville My sable proud dot in the wide blue sparkling sea My humble islands and atolls; Valleys and...
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More midwives graduate in PNG as major training effort pays off
XAVIER MAYES | Medical XpressTHE $10 million maternal and child health initiative in Papua New Guinea funded by the Australian government is beginning a new phase this year. While proving highly...
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University project builds family livelihoods from charcoal
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDEUNIVERSITY of Adelaide researchers have helped create a new industry for Papua New Guinea farmers based on producing charcoal from locally grown firewood crops.A six-year project,...
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Schram tension intensifies: Students force 48 hour Unitech closure
TITI GABI | PNG EdgeBOYCOTTING students at Lae’s University of Technology (Unitech) have forced the administration to close for 48 hours.Students commandeered the university’s buses, parking one across...
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‘Grassroots’, ‘elites’ & the new ‘working class’ of PNG
JOHN COX | Australian National University | ExtractsIN Papua New Guinea a growing middle class of urban, salaried people refer to themselves as the ‘working class’, distinguishing themselves from...
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Roundel for the Flame of the Forest
MICHAEL DOMAn entry in The Crocodile PrizeKina Securities Award for PoetryThe Flame of the Forests is snuffed, what rewards do we reap? Is this the price of the future that we bartered for? To let...
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The family that turned James Segeyaro's life around
MICHAEL CHAMMAS | Brisbane TimesAFTER Ifiso Segeyaro was held up at gunpoint during a bank robbery in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s, he realised his country could not provide his family with the life...
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The Famous Mangkaki Market *
ISHMAEL PALIPALAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryAlone the highway you wait to supply every fresh foods that your workers produce Cars love to stop and buy your goods...
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The man who plotted the destruction of Panguna's power pylons
LEONARD FONG ROKAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismBETWEEN the years 1963 and 1970, the Australian colonial administration under the...
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