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I just missed this young Sepik girl from Parimbe
KEITH ANGENSOME weeks had gone by since my return from Lamasa Island. I stayed at Captain Karl Kamang's rented apartment inside the fenced area owned by the United Church in Rabaul.The place was on the...
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Providing hope to our people in this hybrid land
MARTYN NAMORONGAS A student I grew up reading about the doom and gloom of Papua New Guinea being a failed state.Then PNG's fortunes changed and we were one of the few countries on earth that didn’t...
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Let's make an individual effort for the collective good
JOE HERMANIT IS generally acknowledged that there is an endemic problem of corruption which is deep-rooted at all levels of Papua New Guinean society. The country’s leaders seem accountable to no one,...
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Calling out PNG’s leaders: Your country is no democracy
PAUL OATESLET'S just call it as it is. Provided the local members of parliament keep supporting the prime minister and his government, the District Services Improvement Program (DSIP funds keep coming....
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Is the crocodile still swimming - or is it drowning?
JIMMY AWAGLOUR fingers are still on holiday and unwilling to pick up a biro or engage a keyboard to brainstorm ideas about the vacation.But it really is time to pick-up from what we left last year.The...
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Are O'Neill’s sticky fingers aimed at BCL’s cash & assets?
BRYAN KRAMER | PNG BlogsEARLIER this month, the Post Courier newspaper published an article by journalist Gorethy Kenneth headlined ‘O'Neill: Govt has no interest in Panguna’.The report stated that...
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Donald Trump, fear and the Melanesian big man
PAUL STOLLER | Huffington Post | ExtractDONALD Trump is nothing more - and nothing less - than what anthropologists used to call a "Big Man." As I listened yesterday to his hour-long speech at Liberty...
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On electing leaders: whose wrong first, the people or the State?
MICHAEL DOMPAPUA New Guinea may not be a failed state but the State has consistently failed its people.We are still surviving but how can we thrive? We are responsible for the state we are...
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Is the public service destroying Papua New Guinea?
PHIL FITZPATRICKWHEN I left Papua New Guinea in the 1970s and went to work for the South Australian government I was amazed at the incredibly complicated bureaucratic system that I had walked into.Over...
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The egocentric leader
JIMMY AWAGLThe mentality of being you Is greater than the capability You dream to serve the people And spend your money & resources At pre-election & campaignYou do not have the leader’s...
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Kokoda: A beautiful culture has been misrepresented
GENEVIEVE NELSONRECENTLY an alleged incident on the Kokoda Track was reported on by a number of local Papua New Guinea as well as international media outlets. One media outlet in particular made bold...
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Rain is not the end of PNG's drought, merely the next phase
An enormous El Nino event, already among the four most powerful recorded, has inflicted a devastating drought on Papua New Guinea and elsewhere in the Pacific. It has affected 2.5 million people in PNG...
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The Waigani Language
JIMMY AWAGLYou speak English Your voice will not be heardYou speak Pidgin Your concern will go in vainYou speak Motu Your cry encounters deaf earsYou speak Kuman Your needs are overlookedYou speak...
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MP is misleading Oro people about funds, says Governor
KEITH JACKSONGARY Juffa MP, the Oro Province Governor, has said that his parliamentary colleague, Ijivitari MP David Arore (pictured), has mislead the people of the province by claiming he had no...
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A Mana for all seasons
PETER KRANZFAMILIES are difficult and complicated the world over. Auntie has a feud with Uncle, the children don't talk to their parents, mothers and fathers fall out with their loved ones, cliques are...
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Let’s be fair dinkum when addressing rape cases in PNG
BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGOLATELY there has been a lot in the media about the rape incident involving two foreign tourists on the Kokoda Track. This unfortunate incident, if it is authentic, deserves wide...
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We live, we sell, we buy, we cast, we pray
MICHAEL DOMA message to my readers: We’ve been talking about encouraging the ‘can do’ attitude in Papua New Guinea. Here’s something you can do – print this poem or any other of my socio-political...
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My father, the cadet officer, and the rush to independence
RAYMOND SIGIMETAs told to me by my father, Chief Inspector Joseph Muso Sigimet (retired)AFTER completing Form 4 (equivalent to Grade 10) at the Marist Brothers run St Xavier’s High School on Kairuru...
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Simbu Writers Association on the rock’n’rolling for 2016
FRANCIS NIIAT its first meeting for 2016 held in the Mt Wilhelm Tourist Hotel last Friday, Simbu Writers Association executives developed strategies for the organisation’s 2016 activities.Re-elected...
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O’Neill, Jubilee, Kambanei & ICMA: A match made in heaven?
PNG EXPOSED BLOGSOMETIMES life delivers moments of sublime parody, moments so incredible you have to laugh.No more exquisite moment has been served up in recent years than Prime Minister Peter...
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