Hints for starting lane
JIMMY DREKOREAn entry in the Crocodile PrizeKina Securities Award for PoetryGirls: Beware of cobras, their venom will turn your beauty to historyBoys: Beware of bilums, your little life will change...
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Winds of change: Are they blowing PNG good or bad?
BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGOWHEN the Communist Bloc started to crumble in the latter part of the 1980s, these climactic events were said to have been triggered by a “wind of change” blowing across the USSR and...
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REILLY KANAMONAn entry in the Crocodile PrizeKina Securities Award for PoetryBlack suit and white tie Brief case and laptop case in hand Tinted glass vehicle parked nearby He walks head held high, hand...
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Keeping the brains away: The curse of the non-resident PNGn
RASHMII AMOAH BELLDURING the past week I took to my daily social media haunt to vent. Friends were treated to a rant. It was signed off with an emoticon of a rifle, encapsulating my mood. No...
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Late Leeton footballer Elwyn Ravu was a ‘true gentleman’
MONIQUE PATTERSON | The Irrigator (Leeton NSW)ELWYN Ravu, who died unexpectedly last week at the age of 48, is remembered in Leeton as a perfect gentleman who would do anything for anyone.Elwyn’s close...
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Sound the panpipe
RAYMOND KOMIS GIRANASound the panpipe To the beat of the garamutSway to and fro The Solomon danceSound the panpipe In the TsuhanaChips (chiefs) and fork (pork) Inherent right and deserved nameSound the...
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How government and business drip feed opinion in PNG
PHIL FITZPATRICKTHERE were 827 entries from 132 Papua New Guineans in this year’s Crocodile Prize national literary contest, topping last year’s effort significantly.Given that the competition is...
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PNG time
SAMANTHA KUSARII wake up, 7:50 already Boss expects me in office at eight Time for cup of coffee first PNG timeI arrive at office at 9:30 Clients all lined up waiting They can wait, I just arrived PNG...
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Simbu rediscovers a connection with one of its early kiaps
PETER TURNERTHIS is the story of Patrol Officer George Charlton Tuckey, who was born at Monkseaton, United Kingdom, on 21 June 1913 and died in Kundiawa in 1946.Tuckey enlisted in the New Guinea...
View ArticlePolice who take law into their own hands must be investigated
FELIX BARAKALAWS are social rules that are regarded as binding on the community. Essentially this implies that any human action that violates a particular society’s principles is unlawful.Every law...
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A lost friend
EDWICK KOIMAMoment after moment I think of you With tears rolling down my cheeks Wishing that you would come back But it’s like a silly dream Knowing that you’ve gone foreverLoneliness overcome me with...
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Keng gele – the ancient first born initiation of the Nagovis
LIZA KABUIMANY parts of the traditional culture of Nagovis in Bougainville are slowly being lost including the initiation of the first born child, known as Keng gele in the Sibe language.The last time...
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Papua New Guinea’s ninth prime minister
DIDDIE KINAMUN JACKSONBorn at a time When ethnic clash was at its peak When black was black and inferior And white was the color of Superiority Coloured was the centre of everyone’s attention Even...
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A blind Yuri man beats the odds in the world of business
JOE KUMANSINE Kape is a 50 year old Yuri man who now lives with visual impairment although he was born sighted in Molgime-Kaimine village among the gorges of the Gumine District of Simbu Province. In...
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Australian high commissioner Stokes finishes her stint in PNG
PNG GOVERNMENT | Media ReleasePRIME Minister Peter O'Neill has thanked outgoing Australian High Commissioner Deborah Stokes for her engagement in Papua New Guinea over the past two years.High...
View ArticleI can only wish
FLORENCE JONDUOI left my homeland to see the big city lights where people were educated and made rational decisions, I got on the plane and travelled millions of miles in search of that one thing I am...
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PNG moves to strongly assert its Pacific leadership claims
JENNY HAYWARD-JONES | The Interpreter, Lowy InstitutePACIFIC Islands Forum foreign ministers met in Sydney late last week as the spotlight of regional attention focused on the Pacific Games being...
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Wished I told you mom
ABNER YALUWished I told you mom just once, I fed off your spiritual bounce, you brought me thus far, with no money but Faith and fire, and your favorite digging stick of course, on which countless...
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Kefamo communicates Pope’s message on the environment
BOMAI D WITNETHE issues surrounding climate change are real and different human communities across the globe are taking various approaches to deal with the resulting challenges.In the Catholic Church,...
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The struggles & the storms of a Yuri way of life: Part 1
JOE KUMANMY siblings and I know him as Papa Mikal (Papa Michael) while other people in the community call him Kaupa Michael, Kaupa Dama, Kaupa Kansol (Councillor) or Kaupa Jas (Judge).He is one of...
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