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Now it’s Dr Jane Awi – but the community service continues
KEITH JACKSONJANE Awi told me she’d “been quite busy lately” organising a three-day river festival in her Kerowagi village starting tomorrow.And now the University of Goroka lecturer is organising...
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Croc roars: Jimmy Drekore names 8 sponsors & new art prize
KEITH JACKSONTHE Crocodile Prize Organisation today announced the sponsors of the fifth year of Papua New Guinea’s national writing awards.Chairman Jimmy Drekore (pictured) also has confirmed that next...
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It's on again as Crocodile Prize announces 5th year of awards
KEITH JACKSONTHE Crocodile Prize is once again open for business.From today, Papua New Guinea’s writers – and, for the first time, artists – can enter a national contest that culminates in September...
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Once a place of wonder, now a level of anarchy prevails
CHRIS OVERLANDAT the moment, it seems that a certain level of anarchy prevails in Hela Province. I spent an all too short time as a kiap at Koroba in 1971 and was able to see Hela society in pretty...
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China & Pacific island countries announce strategic partnership
XINHUA NEWS AGENCYCHINA and eight Pacific island countries agreed in Fiji on Saturday to establish a strategic partnership featuring mutual respect and common development.The agreement was announced at...
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Death penalty for crimes against women may threaten women
FIONA HUKULA | National Research InstituteON 6 February 2013, Papua New Guinea woke up to graphic pictures of Kepari Leniata, a 20 year old woman, being burned in Mt Hagen by a mob of angry people who...
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Amanda’s story: growing up in an educated PNG family
BOMAI WITNEMULTI Media Room 1 at Divine Word University was filled with participants from all over Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands on Tuesday morning. They came to attend a two-week PNG Pastoral...
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How to succeed in the Crocodile Prize: tips from the top
KEITH JACKSONTHE Crocodile Prize writing season – which lasts until Tuesday 30 June next year – began yesterday.There are six different writing contests – covering stories, poetry and essays - and one...
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PNG blooming bitterly
JIMMY AWAGLAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for Poetry2015 budgetRecovery of economy as 15%Records K2.3 billionAs 2015 “deficit budget”As 2017 “balanced budget”As 2018 “surplus...
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Crocodile Prize books feel at home in DWU’s Friendship Library
BERNARD SINGU YEGIORADIVINE Word University’s Friendship Library was officially opened on 29 April 2004, named so to recognise the special bond that exists between the people of PNG and the people of...
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PNG's No 1 detective rides again: Hari Metau & the hand-gun
PHIL FITZPATRICKAn extract from Phil Fitzpatrick's forthcoming Inspector Metau novelTHERE was nothing urgent that needed doing that day. There were no messages from headquarters and no cases requiring...
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Fonde the kaspar
JOHN KAUPA KAMASUAAn entry in the Crocodile Prize PNG Government Award for Short StoriesSATURDAYS are usually full of activities in my village. But this morning it is unusually deserted, except for a...
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How can we address the ethnic tensions in our nation?
BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGOPAPUA New Guinea is well known for its tribal fights that have left a trail of blood and destruction through its hinterland over many years. It was not until the missionaries...
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Shining the spotlight of analysis on corruption in PNG
SAM KOIM | PNG Blogs | ExtractsCORRUPTION flourishes in secrecy and in the ignorance of the people. Shedding light on corruption trends is therefore an integral part of curtailing the spread of this...
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MARGARET BROWNJOHNAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryFrom the land - our roots grow deepOur values told - die with the oldPromises of wealth - transaction stealthStatus and...
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Oli kam, oli bagarap, oli go - thoughts on intolerance
PHIL FITZPATRICKI occasionally like to regress into my Irish half and observe the world from there. The perspective is not, I suspect, much dissimilar to a Papua New Guinean one.The Irish have the...
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Papua New Guinea spirit
JULIE SUGOHOAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryThis poem was written to commemorate the opening of the Sixth PNG Games held in Lae from 16-29 November 2014I look around me...
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Where to for Bougainville? A polemic, a plea & a plan
CHRIS OVERLANDBougainville Manifesto by Leonard Fong Roka, Pukpuk Publishing, 88pp, ISBN-10:1502917459. Available from Amazon: hard copy $US6.00; Kindle $US2.98LEONARD Fong Roka comes from Panguna on...
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Regionalism mentality is belittling the learned big-men big time
GILBERT WAGHUAIO HAMAMBIIN Melanesian societies it is usually the aspiration of men to ascend the social scale in a quest to attain ‘big-man’ status and its strong influence. Since the dawn of...
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PNG leaders need to be sensitive to China’s opportunism
CHRIS OVERLANDPOSITIVE engagement between Papua New Guinea and China is necessary and inevitable, as indeed it is for Australia.However, President Xi's references to "a natural sense of amity" and "a...
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