Day: June 28, 2024
Dutch woman looking forward to Sept visit
COVER STORY From the Netherlands comes this letter by someone whose parents helped build Prenorkwa school in Chimbu By AUKJE ROELOFSEN-VAN DER GRAAF Dear people of The National, A WHILE […]
PNG leaves lasting imprints in Hawaii
PACIFIC FESTIVAL THE impact that Papua New Guinea made at the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture in Hawaii, USA, over two weeks cannot be over stated. Because of […]
Leaving Suva for Canberra
TRAVEL By THOMAS HUKAHU IF you had asked me in 2020, if I ever thought of studying at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, I would have taken […]
Smug drivers negect common sense
LIFESTYLE Marfuka is a fictional character who enjoys a good yarn. He tells stories that capture his life from when he could remember as a small boy to his adult life […]
Ode to men’s mental health
LIFESTYLE June is Men’s Mental Health Month. Our in-house poet joins the discourse on the topic. KINGS I got caught off guard the other day Got asked a question that […]
Carbon stock ownership in PNG
ENVIRONMENT Dealing with customary landowners entails overcoming a number of hurdles before realising benefits in the global carbon trade WHAT is carbon and why has it become so important in […]
Glenn ‘hit hard’ with Covid, forced to delay filming
ENTERTAINMENT Glenn Close is in recovery mode. The Oscar-nominated actor, 77, said in a video posted to her Instagram page on Wednesday that she has been in London to begin […]
Officers learn money management
EDUCATION By LORRAINE JIMAL OFFICERS from the Department of Education’s Inclusive Education Division and Flexible Open Distance Education (Fode) recently held a week-long public financial management training workshop. It was […]
Cheque payments to stop: BSP
ALL Bank South Pacific Financial Group Limited (BSP) branches around the country will stop accepting private sector cheques as a means of payments today, says retail banking payments head Peter […]
Landowners receive titles
A TOTAL of 21 local landowner groups in Markham have received their government-recognised land titles after a 10-year wait. This is a significant step forward formalising land ownership and empowering […]