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Musje Werror appointed as OTML CEO as Nigel Parker retires
KEITH JACKSONMUSJE Werror, a long-standing supporter of the Crocodile Prize, has been appointed as the first Papua New Guinean chief executive of Ok Tedi Mining Ltd.He will replace Managing Director...
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A thoroughly callous crime: The book thieves of PNG
PHIL FITZPATRICKTHERE are unexpected drawbacks in running something like the Crocodile Prize national literary award in Papua New Guinea.Like some sponsors, who make all sorts of promises and lead you...
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Common tap diplomacy: Addressing Port Moresby’s water woes
BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGOLACK of access to water in Port Moresby is the result of a number of factors chief amongst which is the rapid rural urban drift that has led to a population explosion. City planning...
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Gida: Saving traditional Motu culture from the extinction
TOMÁS DIETZ | Gida Project ManagerCULTURAL well-being is the cohesive force that keeps the social fabric of a society from fraying at the edges. Lawlessness, anti-social behaviour, substance abuse,...
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Don Polye replaces Belden Namah as PNG Opposition Leader
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONALKANDEP MP Don Polye has been confirmed as Papua New Guinea's new Opposition Leader, taking over from Belden Namah who held the post since 2012.Mr Namah said he...
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Rivers Prize founder trebles 2014 prizemoney to K5500
KEITH JACKSONFOUNDER and sponsor of the Rivers Prize for peace and harmony writing, Val Rivers, has announced she is trebling the total prize money to K5,500 this year.Val, who is also chief judge of...
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From the Kundiawa News 50 years ago today
COMPILED BY KEITH JACKSONThe first year’s publication of the Kundiawa News came to an end with issue 24 of 4 December 1964. The pre-Christmas leave exodus of expatriates from the 'Territory' was about...
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PNG aviation’s first woman owner looks to expand her fleet
PACNEWSAMONG women entrepreneurs from around the Pacific region who met in Fiji last week was business woman Ruth Undi from Papua New Guinea’s resource rich area of Ialibu in the Southern...
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Excuse me, but how often do you & your wife have sex?
PHIL FITZPATRICKTHE social mapping industry in Papua New Guinea now largely comes under the purview of anthropologists, both expatriate and locally trained.They have pretty much shouldered the aging...
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Reporting on PNG issues has gone downhill says academic
KEITH JACKSON | Sources: AAP and Radio New Zealand InternationalTHE director of the Pacific Media Centre in Auckland, Professor David Robie (pictured), says the reporting of Papua New Guinea affairs in...
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Creating the path for peace and harmony in PNG
PHILIP G KAUPAAn entry in the Crocodile PrizeKina Securities Award for PoetryShare the burden of a mother Take her as a sister, a daughter Love one as wife And let polygamy reign no more Humiliate...
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Most commented & most liked: How Attitude tracked in November
KEITH JACKSONA final word on one of PNGAttitude’s big issues this month: the withdrawal of Australian support from the Crocodile Prize national literary contest.It wasn’t just the money; it was the...
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Money, money, money
DAVID KASEI WAPARAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryMoney, money, money Today I shall be lucky I’m calling my buddiesMoney, money, money Last month I collected a heap...
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Serious questions raised about ethics of Jubilee research
JOHN MOMIS | President, Autonomous Bougainville GovernmentJohn Momis has raised new and serious questions about the research ethics of Australian NGO, Jubilee Australia, whose research he had...
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Scoring the 2015 Papua New Guinea budget: overall it’s a dismal ‘E’
PAUL FLANAGAN | DevPolicy Blog | ExtractsIN an earlier Devpolicy Blog post, 10 criteria were set out for judging the success of PNG’s 2015 Budget. This post makes an assessment against those criteria....
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The Keri possum
JIMMY AWAGLAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryWalking, Keri possum Looks cool and cute Lovely black face Like pretty chocolate in jungles of Salt NomaneAfter 10 years,...
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PNG versus Fiji – the regional struggle for leadership intensifies
BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGOIT was interesting to read on the front page of The National newspaper last Monday that Fiji demanded the removal of both Australia and New Zealand from the Pacific Islands Forum....
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Tears for the Fly River
ISO YAWIAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryThe river has turned into blood Grandpa couldn’t go fishing Grandma couldn’t drink anymore A river tainted with poison The Fly’s...
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The plunder of Pacific tuna. PNG needs to take a stand
PAUL OATESHOW is it that Papua New Guinea cannot see the threat of a total demise of its current tuna stock, which is such a precious national resource.ABC Online reports that Pacific Island states are...
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Bringing the faith: A missionary from Myanmar to PNG
FR ROBERT MOEFr Robert Moe is an ethnic Kaya from the mountains of Myanmar, a country where Catholics are just 1% of the population. He discovered his vocation as a seminarian and became a missionary....
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