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Tensions rise in the ethnic melting pot that is Jiwaka Province
BOMAI WITNEAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Cleland Family Award for Heritage WritingALMOST all the Papua New Guinean ways of passed on to us from our forefathers have been struggling to adjust to the...
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Social media commentators fear crackdown by PNG government
KEITH JACKSONWRITER and commentator Martyn Namorong says he fears the Papua New Guinea government is moving to exert control over the social media and crack down on critics like himself.Mr Namorong...
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PNG Council of Churches condemns asylum seekers detention
BRUCE MULLAN | Uniting Church in QueenslandFATHER Denny Guka, the president of the PNG Council of Churches has said they cannot be silent on the issue of the Manus Island detention centre.“We are a...
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Feeling Less
CECILIA BULAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryLied to again, Cheated by again, Broken heart once more, Broken smile, Numbness, confusions, emptiness or all It’s a cycle...
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I write this in great grief: I have just lost a brother
LEONARD FONG ROKABUTCHERED like an animal—one of his hands chopped off—in Lae city was my brother, Louis Taneavi, last Monday.He had recently left our home valley of Tumpusiong in the Panguna District...
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Too late! Too early!
JEFFREY MANE FEBIAn entry in The Crocodile PrizeKina Securities Award for PoetrySomewhere in the distance An evidence of existence Like a sound in the mind Surely, one of a kind Weary and pleading...
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Robson Golightly Green's PNG fishing adventure
PETER KRANZROBSON Golightly Green (yep, that's his real name) is a Geordie actor, TV presenter and fishing addict. Probably best known for his lead role in the crime drama Wire in the Blood, he's also...
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Much more than a dictionary – a love note to Suau & Kwato
KEITH JACKSONTa alina Suau, compiled by Chris Abel, Alotau 2013, 116 pp. Published privately. Review copy provided by Liz AbelA LITTLE book with a big heart, Ta alina Suau, has been assiduously...
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You were just you, Mama
DAVID WAPARAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryYou know me better than anyone else mum. Even dad would agree to that because he was always out of town You never left me out...
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Louis Taneavi avoided death in Bougainville to be killed in Lae
LEONARD FONG ROKAIN the mid-1990s Louis Taneavi (pictured), who last week was slain in Lae, left his Tumpusiong Valley in Bougainville when he heard schools were operating in the PNG army-controlled...
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In the name of Galileo, have a quiet moment and think again!
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKININ the entire universe, the myth and symbol of Nokondi is only found in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.Angels, Homer and the Iliad, Snow White and the Seven...
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Indonesian military crosses border at will in pursuit of OPM
BENJAMIN KEDOGA | Sepik Region Development Discussion BlogTHERE are more reports that the Indonesian military is crossing into Papua New Guinea territory. The Indonesian consulate in Vanimo is...
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This is how Indonesia treats West Papuans
RONNY KARENI | New MatildaWEDNESDAY 2 April marked a global day of action to call for the immediate and unconditional release of the 77 Papuan and Malukan political prisoners currently being held in...
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How I learned to maintain grandpa’s proud legacy
DAVID KASEI WAPARAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Cleland Family Award for Heritage WritingI CAN clearly recall grandpa’s words: “Yu mas singsing tumbuna singsing. Nongut bihain tiksa blong yu askim yu...
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Working like you don’t need money: the Chinese in PNG
BOMAI D WITNEAn entry in The Crocodile PrizePNG Chamber of Mines & PetroleumAward for Essays & JournalismPRE-HISTORIANS claim that the people occupying the island of New Guinea first migrated...
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The two worlds in which we live
PHIL FITZPATRICKMOST of us, whether we are in a remote village in Papua New Guinea or in the sprawling mess that is Australian suburbia, live in two worlds.One of our worlds is the reality that Thomas...
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From the Kundiawa News – 50 years ago today
On 17 April 1964, when the following editorial was published, Kundiawa was a small highlands outpost of perhaps 150 people; one-third of whom were expatriates. While it had very few indigenous members,...
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Fears about social media reform in PNG unfounded, says watchdog
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONALA PACIFIC media watchdog, the Pacific Freedom Forum says fears about the Papua New Guinea government's proposed cybercrime policy are unfounded.Some bloggers and other...
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Meeting in Beijing
BETTY GABRIEL WAKIAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryThis poem is all about my experience when I first arrived in Beijing to do my studiesYou and me From one world We...
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Memories of boyhood – a typical schoolday at Tarawai
DAVID KASEI WAPARAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Cleland Family Award for Heritage WritingI AWOKE to the chorus of cock-a-doodle do and the familiar smell of burning frami, a highly flammable wood that...
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