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Containment measures proving successful
NEWS DESK| Oxford Business GroupLONDON UK - Papua New Guinea confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on 20 March, involving a foreign mine worker in Morobe Province. This prompted the government to...
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That their names may live on
Rev James Chalmers (Tamate) - his name & the names of many other heroes of PNG will be remembered foreverDANIEL KUMBONWABAG - Today, 8 April, is the anniversary of the untimely death of Rev James...
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God, mammon & coronavirus
Old duffers on PNG Attitude have quite a bit extra to chew over in these troubled times....PHIL FITZPATRICK‘No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be...
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Australia steps up Pacific medical support
ANTHONY GALLOWAY| Sydney Morning HeraldSYDNEY - Australia will send charter flights carrying tonnes of urgent medical supplies and other support to Pacific island nations to help combat the coronavirus...
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Wanpela dei tasol insait long Covid-19 lockdown
MICHAEL DOMSampela taim mi save tingting planti tumas Long wanem as tru bilong ol kainkain bikpela heviI bagarapim sindaun bilong yumi ol man meriKuru bilong mi i kamap ston, na het bilong mi penNa...
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Cry Me a River #1
BAKA BINAPORT MORESBY - I smiled at the petite cashier and she smiled back at me. I collected my goodies and saw the cashier still wearing that beautiful smile for me. I smiled back with a glint in my...
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Coronavirus grounds Adventist air fleet
NEWS DESK| Adventist Record | ExtractsSILVER SPRING, USA - Adventist Aviation Services (AAS) in Papua New Guinea has ceased operations until at least 1 June.AAS quality and safety manager Colin Dunn...
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PNG must control its borders
The Indonesian border at Wutung in PNG was closed two months ago because of the apprehended danger of coronavirusHENRY IVARATURE| Asia & the Pacific Policy SocietyCANBERRA - With a surge in...
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Cry Me a River #2
BAKA BINAPORT MORESBY – “Soluhoto, tell you father that his phone is ringing.”“Dada, mum says your phone is ringing,” Soluhoto called from under the house where she was looking for insects while...
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GEORGIE BRIGHT| Australia Associate Director, Human Rights WatchSYDNEY - Even before the coronavirus, the fragile health system in Papua New Guinea was underfunded and overwhelmed, with high rates of...
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Cry Me a River #3
BAKA BINAPORT MORESBY - I walked in and looked at the corner where I spent last night. The couch cushions were still on the floor where I had left them in the morning. Not tidied up.The filthy sheet...
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A matter of Attitude
PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - Further to my article the other day about PNG Attitude’s old duffers chewing over world affairs (with apologies to Charles Duffer) it occurred to me that they represent a...
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Errol Flynn - the Rabaul years
RABAUL HISTORICAL SOCIETYRABAUL - The 18-year-old Errol Flynn – with an already shady background - arrived in New Guinea in October 1927 to make his fortune on the newly discovered goldfields at Edie...
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The tragic history of Goaribari Island
Kerewa longhouses, Goaribari Island, 1923 (Frank Hurley)CHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - Daniel Kumbon’s recent article on the work of early missionaries in Papua New Guinea triggered some memories for me,...
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Keep Your Heaven
WARDLEY D I BARRYkeep your heavenif you will ask for offeringsand won’t buy my sconeskeep your jesusif you will ignore meand love your ownkeep your religionif it will teach me tohate on an empty...
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Cry Me a River #4
BAKA BINAPORT MORESBY - Darned if I know how you make humour of a situation after your head is bashed in.Soluhoto had washed my head and said the wound was minor.She cut a young banana leave and...
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Broken health system braces for Covid-19
Margaret Melke has been a nurse in East New Britain for more than 40 yearsKALOLAINE FAINU| Guardian Australia | Judith Nielson InstituteKOKOPO - The first that staff at Nonga General Hospital in Papua...
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The calling of Sr Dorothy MSC
Sr Dorothy Fabritze MSC with Sr Bernard Overkamp MSC whom she met in PNGMICHELLE N LYNCH| The Reading Eagle | ExtractsREADING, USA - Bushwhacking her way through the jungles of the South Pacific was...
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The airship saga that never happened
The one mark expedition stamp (used not for postage but to raise funds) depicting an airship over an idealised New GuineaALAN BROOKESIBTON, UK - More than a century ago in the years before World War I,...
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Trekking Goilala in the 1979-80 drought
Tapini airstrip, 1972 (Graham Syphers)GRAHAM KINGYUNGABURRA, ATHERTON TABLELANDS - Just two months after I started work in Papua New Guinea in 1980, the wet season in Central Province stopped abruptly...
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