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Customary marriage protocols in the Aekyom & Gogodala tribes
TERENCE AKOAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Cleland Family Award for Heritage WritingCULTURES everywhere are unique and diverse. And the multitudes that make up these cultures view and interpret the...
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Kundiawa
JIMMY DREKOREAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryKundiawa You’re thirsty Wara Simbu smilesKundiawa You’re in darkness Yonki laughsKundiawa Your streets are filthy Konkon...
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Corruption will rob our future if not confronted: Sam Koim
PACNEWS | ExtractsCORRUPTION has the potential to destroy Papua New Guinea’s booming economy if proper mechanisms are not put in place immediately, the chairman of Investigations Task Force Sweep, Sam...
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Long nait bai yumi bung
DAVID KASEI WAPARAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryLong nait bai yumi bung Taim papa silip tingting i lus, Bai yumi bung aninit long munLong nait yu no ken silip Taim mama...
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Broken contracts: How the people’s hopes are wilfully breached
GARY JUFFA MPIN 2012, the people of Papua New Guinea again took themselves to the polls to elect their leaders in a so-called democratic election. Throughout the length and breadth of Papua New Guinea...
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Sleeping beside the corpse of the village chief’s daughter
JOSEPH AMBANE JOHNAn entry in The Crocodile Prize People’s Award for Short StoriesIT all happened on the evening of 9 November 2007 at the remote village of Bombir in the Kerowagi District of Simbu...
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Beautiful, gentle tuna
DAVID KASEI WAPARAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryWild and free as any aquatic life can be Glistening under the crystal blue waters of the Pacific Your skin slivery...
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PNG images – how popular novelists saw PNG way back then
PHIL FITZPATRICKTHE period between 1945 and about 1985 was the heyday of the paperback novel. Apart from Penguin Books, the soft covered paperbacks mass produced on cheap paper in that period were of...
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Butterfly Tips
JIMMY DREKOREAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Prize for PoetryIf you get butterflies when she’s next to you, ask her where the apple is?If she says it’s with Adam She wants you beside...
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Globally lauded sculptor Tom Deko feels underused at home
JANE PUMAI AWIAn entry in The Crocodile PrizePNG Chamber of Mines & PetroleumAward for Essays & JournalismTOM Deko’s passion for the arts has given him international exposure, enabling him to...
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Sharpening Their Minds
JIMMY DREKOREAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryTheir eyes zeroing on the question like kamikaze bombers Aligning the target with precision only to stirring up the hive of...
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Sam Kauona’s push for status causes tensions in Bougainville
LEONARD FONG ROKAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismIN the 2009 film, The Reeds Festival, the late Bougainvillean actor and advocate...
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Refugees, squatter settlements & creating a winning solution
BERNARD YEGIORAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismPAPUA New Guinea’s squatter settlements are a breeding ground for thugs and...
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'Extinct' big-eared bat found in Abau District
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSEA big-eared bat which was thought to be extinct has been found in a forest in Papua New Guinea, highlighting the nation’s unique biodiversity.Until the discovery, the bat, or...
View ArticleAddressing the behavioural crisis among PNG’s youth
ALFRED KAWOAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismTHAT modern 21st century youth in Papua New Guinea has adopted a chaotic lifestyle is...
View ArticleUN agency labels PNG's HIV and AIDS crisis a pandemic
RELIEF WEBThere is a growing concern in Papua New Guinea about a public health emergency centring on HIV and AIDS, with one United Nations' agency labelling it a pandemic.Papua New Guinea has well over...
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AIDS is still a killer disease & abstinence the only safe way
PAUL WAUGLA WIIAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismDOCTORS tell us that we must stay safe from HIV AIDS at all costs while donor...
View ArticleFr Jerry’s dying wish for reconciliation: 'No payback for my murder'
FR GIORGIO LICINI | Catholic ReporterIT is one month since the killing of Fr Jerry Maria Inau and church worker Benedict at Kamulai in the Goilala mountains of Central Province but information is still...
View ArticlePatience has its Limits
GETRUDE BAKAIEAn entry in The Crocodile Prize People’s Award for Short StoriesUP in the high ranges of Mt Wilhelm lived beautiful Weywey, full of elegance and taste. Wherever she walked, the people had...
View ArticleA journey of pleasure and regret
DAVID KASEI WAPARAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryI should have listened to mom I should have taken her word seriously I should have known what awaited me in that short...
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