World class resources need world class governance
JOE FORMEX WASIA PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS A COUNTRY richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation in the past was hampered by the rugged terrain and the high cost of developing infrastructure....
View ArticleJulia Gillard can offer PNG one big thing – visas
KEITH JACKSON OF COURSE IT’S NOT up to PNG Attitude to set challenges for the Australian prime minister, but let’s do it anyway. If there was one friendly outcome that could be achieved by Julia...
View ArticleKeith’s intimate travel diary 9 – Poverty & honesty
KEITH JACKSON WEDNESDAY 8 MAY – AQABA, JORDAN. Readers Richard Jones and Martin Hadlow are well-travelled gentlemen and, to paraphrase Plato on Socrates, wherever I go, I seem to meet them coming back....
View ArticleGraduates aim to improve Bougainville health services
ISHMAEL PALIPAL POST CONFLICT BOUGAINVILLE NEEDS more workers to improve health services for a growing population. Health services on the island were shattered during the 10-year civil war and are...
View ArticleMining big part of Bougainville economy says ex-president
BEN JACKSON FORMER BOUGAINVILLE PRESIDENT, James Tanis, has said that the reopening of the Panguna copper and gold mine is important to Bougainville’s economic independence. “The Panguna mine is an...
View ArticleYo ho ho & a book – full speed ahead; damn the critics
PHIL FITZPATRICK UNLESS SOMEONE HAS GOT a blockbuster ready to go and poised to spark a bidding war among international publishers, the way ahead for writers in Papua New Guinea is digital and...
View ArticleTough issues for PNG education still unresolved
OXFORD BUSINESS GROUP RECENT REPORTS THAT STUDENTS in some areas of Papua New Guinea are crossing into Indonesia for lessons provided a stark reminder of the challenges the PNG government faces in its...
View ArticleA Papuan answer to the Bougainvillean
JOHN FOWKE IT IS EASY TO AGREE with every comment made about Leonard Roka's poem, A Bougainvillean song to the Papuan And, as most of us have a fairly good understanding that the Bougainville crisis...
View ArticleA Bougainville manifesto: (1) People and culture
LEONARD FONG ROKA This is the first of a ‘Bougainville Manifesto’ series of writings that I am creating at my own initiative to explore the Bougainville conflict from the pre-colonial era; through...
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View ArticlePeter O’Neill calls for easier Australian visa access
LIAM FOX | ABC PNG PRIME MINISTER, PETER O’NEILL is now leading the charge for improved arrangements for Papua New Guineans seeking visas to enter Australia. "Our people find existing visa arrangements...
View ArticleAlleged PNG crime boss on visa wanted over $30m theft
NICK McKENZIE & RICHARD BAKER | The Age AN ALLEGED CRIME BOSS wanted in Papua New Guinea over the theft of $30 million has used a 457 visa issued by the Australian government to avoid arrest and...
View ArticleMiners are reaping from the poor, say PNG NGOs
PNG MINE WATCH PAPUA NEW GUINEA's major non-government organisations say their government and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community are continuing to ignore the wishes of Pacific people in their...
View ArticleIsolate Benny Wenda and stop the attention-seeking
YANTO SOEGIARTO | Jakarta Globe INDONESIA SHOULD NOT HAVE MADE BENNY WENDA (pictured) and his campaign an issue by summoning the British ambassador to Indonesia, Mark Canning, to protest the opening of...
View ArticleKeith’s intimate travel diary 10 – Night drive in Egypt
KEITH JACKSON THURSDAY 9 MAY – SAFAGA, EGYPT. The three-hour drive from the desolate port of Safaga to the green and ancient Nile city of Luxor is through unremitting, unrelenting desert and conducted...
View ArticleSome haiku for Mothers Day - poetry with a PNG flavour
PETER KRANZ A woman, old legs Hands spins with twisting A bilum is made Recurring pain Mother, remember my birth A painful joy My wife grows mature Her thoughts are my cradle Love learns to know Women...
View ArticleMother - luminescent new PNG poetry
EMMA WAKPI Her eyes; Pools of liquid amber An oasis; Deep, mysterious, tender Reflections of emotions Glisten on the surface clear Admonitions, exhortations Expressed, so I see to hear Her smile; A...
View ArticleKami Raymundus of Torembi - mankimasta & friend
DAVID WALL “I HAVE NEVER KNOWN FINER GENTLEMEN than some well-born Malays whom I am proud to call my friends.” Thus spoke Warburton, one of Somerset Maugham’s characters in his story, The Outstation....
View ArticleKeith's intimate travel diary 11 – Accident at sea
KEITH JACKSON FRIDAY 10 MAY – SAFAGA, RED SEA. Ugh, what can you say? If I’d fallen off a camel, been charged down by a donkey or even slipped on a cocktail olive, I’d have a reasonable tale to tell....
View ArticleWho is our neighbour?
ISHMAEL PALIPAL GEOGRAPHICALLY, THE ISLAND OF SHORTLAND, Faul Island (Kariki) and the mainland of Choiseul Province of Solomon Islands are very close to the North Solomons mainland of Bougainville,...
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