Cricket: PNG Barramundis have comfortable win over Netherlands
KEITH JACKSON THE BARRAMUNDIS SCORED a comfortable win in the world 20/20 cricket qualifier against the Netherlands overnight after a quickfire century by Tony Ura (pictured) took them to a commanding...
View ArticleOn the trail of PNG’s Tenkile, rarer than the Great Panda
EUAN RITCHIE | The Conversation MUCH OF MY TIME as an ecology lecturer has been spent teaching students about the wonders of this planet’s biodiversity, but also, regrettably, how much of this...
View ArticleHonour among thieves
CHIPS MACKELLAR I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you - Exodus, 12:13 IN THE EARLY DAYS of the Australian Administration in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, prisoners were an...
View ArticleCricket: Desert rain robs PNG of win against lucky Afghanistan
KEITH JACKSON AH, THE UNFAIRNESS OF IT ALL. In a rain-affected match in Sharjah, Afghanistan edged out Papua New Guinea after the Duckworth Lewis system was invoked, denying the Barramundis their third...
View ArticleLazy & naïve young men sweep away fine traditional leaders
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN An entry in The Crocodile Prize IN THOSE OLDER NOSTALGIC DAYS, leadership in Simbu was reserved for those who stood the test of time and had infinite civic virtue that protected...
View ArticleManus people cut out: O'Neill concerned about refugee facility
AAP PAPUA NEW GUINEA PRIME MINISTER Peter O'Neill is annoyed that his people are not benefiting from an asylum-seeker processing deal with Australia. "It is alarming to note that our Papua New Guinean...
View ArticlePaul Barker urges strong stance on inquiry into MPs’ funding
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL AN IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY could be lost if an investigation into MPs who failed to submit financial returns falls by the wayside, says Paul Barker (pictured), the...
View ArticleBefore evaporating, self-styled anti-corruption group issued manifesto
Last Wednesday's Opposition-inspired anti-corruption rally didn't happen and yesterday's stop work protest was a debacle. But before everything went belly up, VINCENT MOSES ("on behalf of all...
View ArticlePeter O’Neill claims corruption busters have cleared him
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA's Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has said that an independent police probe into corruption has cleared him of any wrongdoing. Mr O’Neill was implicated in...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea: A land whose magic soaks to the core
LIAM CREEDON | Yorkshire Post ‘NEVER SPEND MORE THAN 24 HOURS with a woman,” the village bigman huskily intones, pausing to scratch his nose with the sharpened tip of an arrow. “It will make a man lose...
View ArticlePonds are being constructed for prosperity in PNG
EMMA ZALCMAN | Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research THERE’S MORE TO CONSTRUCTING a pond than just digging a hole and filling it with water. Just ask Francis Gako, who has been...
View ArticleSmall islands demand UN protection from rising sea levels
INTER PRESS SERVICE THREATENED BY RISING SEAS, some of the world's small island developing states are demanding that the UN's new set of Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on the...
View ArticleSolomons church leaders share their views on sorcery
CHARLEY PIRINGI | Solomon Star SORCERY IS PART OF CULTURE and it must be addressed and not ignored, a Catholic priest has told the Solomon Islands Law Reform Commission in Honiara. “Sorcery is very...
View ArticleFiscal discipline lacking as PNG embarks on spending spree
MARTYN NAMORONG | Namorong Report YESTERDAY’S PAPUA NEW GUINEA BUDGET was very difficult for me to swallow. Yes teachers get a pay rise but the government’s party-boy behaviour means they’re going to...
View ArticleUS think tank condemns failure to act on land grabs
JEMIMA GARRETT | Radio Australia A UNITED STATES’ THINK TANK has criticised Papua New Guinea's prime minister Peter O’Neill for failing to act on the findings of a Commission of Inquiry into...
View ArticleCalls for additional media controls in PNG are very disturbing
PETER KRANZ IN RECENT DAYS there have been two interesting - nay disturbing - moves in the relationship between the Papua New Guinea government and the media. First, our old friend Belden Namah has...
View ArticleOz immigration targets black passengers for 'racist treatment'
KEITH JACKSON BART PHILEMON AND I were at the University of Papua New Guinea together. We shared Prof Rex Mortimer’s politics honours class along with people like Rabbie Namaliu, Utula Samana and Paul...
View ArticleUPNG student discovers Lapita pottery in the Pomio District
MATTHEW LEAVESLEY A RECENT REPORT of a new Lapita archaeological site in the Pomio District of East New Britain has triggered a great deal of interest in the Papua New Guinea and Pacific archaeology...
View ArticleCan Mr Namah rely on social media to reach the people?
KEITH JACKSON YOU WOULD HAVE TO BET that the decision by Papua New Guinea opposition leader Belden Namah not to deal with mainstream media and instead rely on social media to get out his message won’t...
View ArticleCivil servants - Making financial pressure a way of life
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN PAPUA NEW GUINEA has a plethora of “money-rain” institutions and human cash mules (maket meri) that will give loans to any working class man or woman in need of immediate cash....
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