Independence & development: development & cultural genocide
MARTYN NAMORONG | Part 2 of a two part series DEVELOPMENT IS THE CREATION of the perception that an introduced culture is new, better, and superior to a prevailing culture or social order. It is a...
View ArticleMathias Kauage – PNG’s greatest creative artist
ULLI BEIER | Introduction to catalogue: Mathias Kauage: a retrospective MATHIAS KAUGE WAS BORN in Chimbu country in the Highlands of New Guinea around 1945. During his childhood the Chimbu were still...
View ArticleVoting - the behaviour of people without heads
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN IT WAS THE MORNING of Wednesday 27 June 2012. The plebs living in Morata chewed their betelnut, lit their cigars and discussed the polls. It was not a secret ballot to them....
View ArticleAt last ! First woman wins seat in 2012 PNG election
KEITH JACKSON DELLILAH PUEKA GORE (Triumph Heritage Empowerment Party), the little known candidate outside her own area who led narrowly from the very beginning of counting in her seat, has become the...
View ArticleLove when bought
ERIC GABRIEL | The Crocodile Prize SHE STOOD THERE STARING AT ME, unsatisfied and sobbing as I offered my last words of comfort. Grieving tears rolled down her face. She no longer looked like the...
View ArticleCircle of tears
AGNES ARE | The Crocodile Prize I know you can never understand the way I feel for you It’s harder for me to forget the times we shared The way you find so easy to do. Logically it’s wrong to...
View ArticleIt’s Polye! The people of Kandep have spoken again
JOE WASIA THE MEMBER FOR KANDEP and parliamentary leader of the new Triumph Heritage Empowerment (THE) Party, Don Polye [pictured], has been re-elected to Parliament for a third term. He was one of the...
View ArticleWhy wasn't Markham fish death report released?
CONCERNED SCIENTIST | The Namorong Report WHEN LARGE NUMBERS OF DEAD FISH littered the banks and mouth of the Markham River, the Labu people brought the issue to the media to demand answers from the...
View ArticleSovereignty & self reliance versus colonial development
MARTYN NAMORONG NAME A COUNTRY that does not depend on foreigners? Answer: probably none The so called developed world is very dependent on the third world, as they like to refer to the rest of us, for...
View ArticleDevelopment: The view of an ex-colonial masta
JOHN FOWKE ONE HAS TO AGREE WITH MARTYN NAMORONG. Of course, yaws and other disfiguring skin disease are not life-threatening, although endemic until the invention of penicillin and the increasing...
View ArticleKeepin' the fire alive: Loujaya Toni has just won Lae
KEITH JACKSON IN ONE OF THE REAL SHOCK RESULTS of the current Papua New Guinea elections, activist, poet and singer Loujaya Toni has just won the seat of Lae. Lae Open had offered a fascinating contest...
View ArticleIndonesia-PNG draft agreement to bring back Djoko
RIZKY AMELIA | Jakarta Globe THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT is drafting an agreement with Papua New Guinea to bring back graft convict Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra [pictured]. “We can’t intervene with other...
View ArticleElection 2012: money politics, inefficiency & intimidation
KEITH JACKSON THE COMMONWEALTH OBSERVER GROUP in Papua New Guinea for the elections has issued an interim report that contains a number of serious problems that PNG must address to ensure free and fair...
View ArticleLittle known Delilah Gore takes PNG by storm
TAVURVUR | The Garamut Blog MOST OF US KNOW LITTLE about Papua New Guinea's fifth ever female MP, Delilah Gore, the first woman to be elected in the 2012 elections. I can share that she is the former...
View ArticleLoujaya Toni – a life of music, politics & poetry….
KEITH JACKSON LOUJAYA TONI (46), who shocked a strong field of male contenders to become Papua New Guinea’s newest female parliamentarian, was born in the city she now represents. Before yesterday’s...
View ArticleCan I defeat a political giant in the Lae Open?
LOUJAYA TONI Yesterday afternoon, after a tough struggle against a number of high profile male candidates including sitting member and former minister Bart Philemon, Loujaya won the seat of Lae on the...
View ArticleFormer deputy PM Sam Abal loses Wabag seat
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL ANOTHER PROMINENT politician in Papua New Guinea has lost his seat. Former deputy prime minister Sam Abal has been defeated in Wabag by fellow independent, Robert Ganim....
View ArticlePNG likely to protect fugitive Djoko says professor
RANGGA PRAKOSO & ISMIRA LUTFIA | Jakarta Globe ALTHOUGH CORRUPTION FUGITIVE Djoko Tjandra is on Interpol’s most-wanted list, Papua New Guinea is not likely to hand him over to Indonesia, a law...
View ArticleWoman’s business: The political goals of Loujaya Toni
ARMSTRONG SAIYAMA FORMER JOURNALIST, TEACHER, POET CUM GOSPEL SINGER Loujaya Toni, running on the ticket of the Indigenous People’s Party, is the new member elect for Lae Open seat in a male dominated...
View ArticleParty switchers already on the move to Belden Namah
SOURCES A SHIFT IN POLITICAL PARTY ALLEGIANCE by a regional candidate for West Sepik could throw the formation of a new Papua New Guinea government into chaos. Leading contender, Amkat Mai [pictured],...
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