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Walk away from the problem: How to ruin not run a country
Beautiful Kela village on Salamaua Bay before the unnecessary troubles that saw it burned to the groundALBERT SCHRAMLAE - This story about Kela village in the Salamaua area is shocking. Kela is a...
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My long journey to the land of the sunrise
Alphonse HuviALPHONSE M HUVIDEVARE - It was late one evening during the second week of March 2015. I was home at Bialla, West New Britain. The night was quiet except for the sound of laughter coming...
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Dan McGarry: Fighting for media freedom & truth in the Pacific
Dan McGarry of the Vanuatu Daily Post - while News Corp cravenly backed down, McGarry stared Nauru's would-be dictators in the face. That's journalismLEE DUFFIELD | Pacific Media CentreWhen host...
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Second expat vice-chancellor goes as PNG universities turn nasty
Prof John Warren - forced to leave PNG as threats & lawlessness descend on universities targeting senior expatriate administratorsKEITH JACKSONBARCELONA – A letter from the former vice-chancellor...
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PNG media silent as another vice chancellor is lost
Prof John Warren - thwarted egos & political games are costing PNG talented university administrators (& a craven local media remains silent)STEPHEN HOWESCANBERRA - Last month, University of...
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Village on broken mountain - PNG quake plight continues
One of the countless large landslides from the February 2018 earthquake disaster in PNG's Highlands - the trauma continues (Koroi Hawkins)JOHNNY BLADES | Radio New ZealandLAKE KUTUBU - "We have no...
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More stories from the chronicles of the Devare students
Students of the Devare High School, BougainvillePHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - I’ve spent the last week or so helping Alphonse Huvi, a teacher at Devare Adventist High School in Bougainville, prepare an...
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Ecocide – the new rock album to help save the Pacific
SI JACKSONAUCKLAND – "The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now".I had this Chinese proverb very much in mind while I was writing the tracks for a new album -...
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How much longer can PNG let its universities decline?
After an earlier run-in with unscrupulous authorities, Albert Schram returned triumphantly to Lae. But it was too much for those he'd caught cheating the system. They successfully plotted his arrest on...
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A late night drama at Rumginae as a mother struggles for life
Dr Kevin Pondikou nurses two of Papua New Guinea’s newest citizens: the twins born at Rumginae on Friday 17 AugustKEVIN PONDIKOURUMGINAE - I was sleeping when the buzzer on the two-way radio from mid...
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A faith healing and a farewell: a final return to PNG?
Sean Dorney back in Manus - "I have motor neurone disease and may have only two years left to live"SEAN DORNEY | Australian Broadcasting CorporationMANUS - These committed Catholics in my wife's...
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PNG politicians have differing views on benefits of APEC
Bryan Kramer MP - after APEC life in PNG is not going to be any easier. Billions spent for what?JOHNNY BLADES | Radio New ZealandPORT MORESBY - Social breakdown could come to a head in Papua New Guinea...
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I don’t go to church on Sundays - I go to media
Phil Fitzpatrick - "many politicians who proclaim their faith are actually liars and hypocrites"PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY – I don’t go to church on Sundays. Instead, I religiously watch Insiders on ABC...
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Worthy Alone
Wardley BarryWARDLEY BARRYhe's sweet and charming his eyes left her powerless among shoes and stringshe gives her new dreams and furbishes her wishes with baskets and ringshe takes her to his house,...
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The ugly anatomy of PNG’s university system, from one who knows
Dr Albert Schram - 'PNG has good people to run its universities, but they are kept out by a political system which is corrupt and perceives them as threats'ALBERT SCHRAMVERONA - The latest episode in...
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In Oz we can afford hypochondria; in PNG there are no bandages
Phil FitzpatrickPHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - One of the dangers of reaching my seventies in relatively good health is falling into the hypochondria trap that seems to enliven the existence of many of my...
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‘Mirror on the Wall’: Uncertainty & struggle find a good pathway
KEITH JACKSONMirror On The Wall: selected poems, short stories and expositions by Raymond Muso Sigimet. JDT Publications, Port Moresby, 2018. 92 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1724-22-495-8. Amazon Books, paperback...
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So Commisioner Baki thinks he can bury the O’Neill case?
Is Peter O'Neill in the clear? There are serious doubts that the people of PNG have seen justice in the long-running Paraka fraud caseFRANCIS NIIKUNDIAWA– Papua New Guinea police commissioner Gary Baki...
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Australia’s waning Asian voice: The fading broadcast signal
GRAEME DOBELL | Australian Strategic Policy InstituteCANBERRA - Australia’s international broadcasting effort in the Asia–Pacific is at its lowest-ever level.These are the worst of times for Australian...
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Looking through my window is to know me & my life
RAYMOND SIGIMET A Window to My House – Collection of Poems by Raymond Muso Sigimet. JDT Publications, Port Moresby, 2018. 70 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1724-22-538-2. Amazon Books, paperback $5.50DAGUA - In...
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