This article was first published in 2012 By MALUM NALU I first met legendary Highlands politician and businessman, Sir Sinake Giregire – who passed away in January 2012 – one fine morning in July 2000. That beautiful Goroka morning, while I was working with the Coffee Industry Corporation in Goroka, I drove up to his …
This story was first published in 2012 By MALUM NALU The Coffee Industry Corporation board room in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, is named the Lloyd Hurrell Board Room. Who was Lloyd Hurrell and what was his contribution to Papua New Guinea’s coffee industry? Lloyd Hurrell was a remarkable man, a pioneer coffee grower in Wau and …
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APRIL 14 2022 Many legendary Australian kiaps (patrol officers) helped develop Papua New Guinea into what it is today. Such a man was Ian Downs, who died on Tuesday August 24, 2004, in the Gold Coast, aged 89, one of the greatest and most-legendary men who walked this country. Downs is remembered as the principal …
By MALUM NALU This article was first published in The National newspaper on Friday, April 8, 2022 As my good friend, veteran PNG helicopter pilot Captain James Pima looks for a hole in the clouds, I marvel at the magnificent natural tapestry below. Towering mountains, meandering rivers, cascading waterfalls, green virgin forests (which I hear …
This article first appeared in The National Weekender on Friday, March 8, 2013 By MALUM NALU On Saturday, March 2, 2013, while in the mountains of Baiune in Bulolo, Morobe province, for the opening of PNG Forest Products’ K100 million Upper Baiune hydro power project, I met two living legends of Bulolo. I was walking …
Remembering Jack Remus Nawatz (September 9th 1983 – October 25th 2004) By MALUM NALU Steven ‘Sticky’ Nawatz, son of my late nephew Jack Nawatz, turned 18 at home at Butibam in Lae yesterday. Last night, I thought of Jack ( and all our loved ones who’d left us), and the memories came running back and …