PNG Gossip Newsletter - 16 Feb 2013

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"Pidgin English"

Tok Pisin English
ai eye
bihain last / later on
gras hair
het i pen headache
het head
ia ear
kela bald
lapun old
maus mouse
pen pain
sik sick / illness
soa sore
strongpela soa bad sore / ulcer
tis i pen toothache
tis teeth
wara bilong ai tears
wara water

Webster's Online Dictionary
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If you are really keen on finding out what the Kina is worth a currency converter for most world currencies can be located at -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/moni.html -- The PNG Business Directory also has daily rates based from a PNG perspective

Want to find out more about Papua New Guinea? Try searching at -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo -- and -- http://www.michie.net/png_faqs or try the PNG Business Directory located at -- http://www.pngbd.com -- and the PNG Tourism Directory -- http://www.pngtd.com. Both are excellent places to look for information about the country.
For those who are not so familiar with the geography of Papua New Guinea I suggest taking a look at -- http://maps.google.com -- and then clicking on the "+" to zoom in to the area of interest. Go to the following link for a quick start to a map of Port Moresby. -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/pom-map.html

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PNG News Links

http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/attacked-by-pirates-in-png/1749701/

Alotau District Plans Launched -- http://giaman.com/pg/?8093c0

Female judge to head PNG mission in Honiara -- http://giaman.com/pg/?80bb4f

Kintau - Half of Jackson's Airport land taken illegally -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130212/news10.htm

The developer of Papua New Guinea's LNG project denies killing fish in Lake Kutubu -- http://giaman.com/pg/?65d246

Water PNG to improve service in Kavieng -- http://giaman.com/pg/?02e12a

UPNG in debt by K66.5 million -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130214/news01.htm

PNG firm named as a global sustainability leader -- http://giaman.com/pg/?72f9ea

PNG parliament repeals law used to suspend judges -- http://giaman.com/pg/?12617c





Misc. Links

Alotau District, Milne Bay -- http://www.alotaudistrict.gov.pg

PNG may lose plant patents -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130212/news12.htm

Polygamist says practice is not for weak men -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130211/news05.htm

Shady Stories At The Holiday Inn -- http://giaman.com/pg/?0fcb9b

Promote French language and cultures in Moresby -- http://afportmoresby.org

Social Media Not Controllable -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130214/news03.htm





PNG Images

Rubbish Piles Up in Mt Hagen City -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDqKWs0TslY

Fantastic tribal face-painting -- http://twitpic.com/c1rzl6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Papua New Guinea Images - Lonely Planet -- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/papua-new-guinea/images

Trek Earth -- http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Oceania/Papua_New_Guinea

Last of the Cave People -- http://giaman.com/pg/?983f51

PNG images -- http://johnandsheena.smugmug.com/papua-new-guinea

Mt Hagen, Kandep to Laiagam 1972 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCy9pDNHsKE





PNG Blogs

Céline Rouzet on Papua New Guinea's Gas Boom -- http://giaman.com/pg/?a8e732

Papua New Guinea Blogs -- http://www.pngblogs.com

Malum Nalu -- http://malumnalu.blogspot.com

PNG Links & Search - Blogs, Forums -- http://www.tanorama.com/pngsrch_blogs_etc.html

PNGexposed Blog -- http://pngexposed.wordpress.com

Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea -- http://www.nancysullivan.typepad.com

Euralia Paine -- http://euraliapaine.blogspot.com.au


News Items

Death Condemned

UN condemns Papua New Guinea 'sorcery' witch trial. Reports of a woman burned alive by vigilantes amid accusations of sorcery in Papua New Guinea have been condemned by the United Nations.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?027d41

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?0a664d

Police say they are about to make their first arrests almost a week after a mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of horrified.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?782df2

Police have saved two women from being burnt alive in Mt Hagen where a 20-year-old mother of a baby girl was thrown into a fire and burnt recently -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/45435

See also a related incident -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/45495





South Sydney Rabbitohs Win

The South Sydney Rabbitohs have opened their NRL pre-season campaign with a comfortable 38-12 win over PNG in a recent trial encounter at Redfern Oval in New South Wales, Australia.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?71d314





New Aussie Envoy

The Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, has announced a replacement for Ian Kemish as the Australian High Commissioner to PNG. Deborah Stokes, a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will take over from Mr Kemish in March this year. Ms Stokes has previously served as Australia's ambassador to Austria and permanent representative to the United Nations in Vienna, and as Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/45410





New PX Head

Simon Foo has been appointed as the acting chief executive officer of the national airline. Mr Foo was a former Air Niugini executive and board member. The existing CEO, Wasantha Kumarasiri, has been appointed by the O'Neill government to head the Independent Public Business Corporation (IPBC), which oversees the operations of all state-owned business entities.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/45493





Aid Post Upgrade

Health and HIV/AIDS Minister Michael Malabag has witnessed the commitment of K200,000 to upgrade the Gabagaba aid post in Central province.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/45466





Registrar Re-appointed

Ian Augerea has been re-appointed as the registrar of the Supreme and National Court. He has been re-appointed for another three years from the first of February. The Judicial and Legal Services Commission also re-appointed Justice Elenas Batari, from Hoskins, West New Britain Province, for another term as a judge. It also appointed senior and distinguished private legal practitioner, Mr Goodwin Poole for a 12 months period as a judge of the National and Supreme Courts of Papua New Guinea.





PM 48

The Prime Minister, Peter O'Neil has celebrated his 48th birthday. He received congratulatory messages from the Opposition Leader, Belden Namah and other politicians, leaders, staff and citizens as he celebrated his birthday on the 1th of February.





Ela Motors

Ela Motors "wheels for the nation" has celebrated 50 Years in the country.

-- http://skerah.com/articles_business.php?id=530





More Prisoners Escape

Prisoners escaping from jail in PNG is a common occurrence. Recently 35 high-risk prisoners were able to escape from Jomba jail in Madang by using a hacksaw to cut through the prison windows.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/45424





Moresby North East Benefits

The National Capital District Governor, Powes Parkop, has approved and released K1 million for educational assistance to the people of Moresby Northeast electorate.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130214/news17.htm





New Kerema District Administrator

Kerema has a new district administrator and treasurer to assist local parliamentarian Richard Mendani to deliver its five-year strategic business and development plans.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/45465





Court of Disputed Returns

The Special National Court of Disputed Returns in Kokopo has dismissed the election petition case against Deputy Prime Minister Grand Chief Leo Dion, citing incompetency. The election petition was filed in September 2012 by Kivu Lawyers representing Sir John Kaputin who was runner-up of the East New Britain Regional Seat in the General Elections, now held by Grand Chief Dion.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130214/news07.htm





School Project Fee

The Prime minister has confirmed the limit set by the National Executive Council for school project fees has been set at K200. Mr O'Neill issued a strong warning to all provincial education boards as well as school boards and managements that Cabinet has made it an offence if they do not comply with this decision.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130208/news01.htm





Airport Certification

James Kaputin from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has said that there are only eight national airports out of 22 major airports in the country certified by CASA under the national airports certification to operate for this year and accept regular passenger transport flights.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130208/news14.htm





School Cults / Gangs

Anti-cult site tells tales -- http://giaman.com/pg/?9d095b

Gangs flourish in Lae schools -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130211/news16.htm

Department of Education cannot handle gangs -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130211/news21.htm

School gangs a time bomb! -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130211/news01.htm





PNG Chocolate Factory

A feasibility study has been done to set up a chocolate factory in Papua New Guinea's East Sepik province.

-- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=74011





Stow-away Convicted

A man who stowed-away on an Ok Tedi Mining Ltd charter flight has been sentenced to a jai; term by the Tabubil District Court. The 32 year old stow=away boarded the OTML flight from Tari, to Tabubil in Western Province and was only detected when he appeared confused on arrival at Tabubil. When staff at Tabubil airport investigated they found he was a stow-away.





Deportation Queried

Belden Namah has taken the government to task over the sudden granting of citizenship and deportation of prominent foreign experts who have contributed to the development of Papua New Guinea. Mr Namah mentioned examples in the likes of lawyer Greg Sheppard, threatened to be deported on many occasions, barring of Ross Garnaut from coming into the country and the recent incident on the Vice Chancellor of the University of Technology Dr Albert Schram.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130214/news12.htm





Defence Upgrade

After many years of neglect the government has announced plans to increase the size of the defence force fivefold. Currently the force has approx. 1,900 members and this will be increased to 10,000.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?15d217





Coming Events

Note: please verify any date mentioned as dates change and events can sometimes get cancelled. Of course I may also put down a wrong date.

Skerah Extreme Kokoda Trek - 6th to 13th of April, 2013

2013 Oceania Cup - June 2013

Hiri Moale Festival - July 2013

Pacific Mini Games - Wallis and Futuna 2013

2013 Pacific Netball Series (hosted by Fiji)

Goroka Show 2013 -- http://epictomato.com/inspiration/the-goroka-show-papua-new-guinea

Christmas Day - 25th December 2013

Boxing Day - 26th December 2013

New Year's Day -- 1st January 2014

Full Pacific Games - PNG 4th July to 18th July 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?081f78

Pacific Mini Games - Vanuatu 2017

Do you have an event that you want advertised? - Use the submission form located at -- http://www.pnggossip.com/misc/ctc.html




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