By MALUM NALU BACK in 1984, while doing Grade 11 at Aiyura National High School in the Eastern Highlands, my class did a weekend trek from Aiyura to Yonki. On a cold, wet, Saturday night, we overnighted at Arau Coffee Plantation run by a legendary Australian woman Muriel McGowan Larner. Larner, the mother of one […]
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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
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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
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APRIL 14 2022 This Easter, for the first time ever, the people of remote Maramuni in Enga will be able to travel to and from provincial capital Wabag for their goods and services. It is something that the people of this forgotten part of Papua New Guinea have not been able to do since Independence
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AIR NIUGINI APRIL 13 2022 Air Niugini wishes to advise the travelling public that the airline has now resumed its Fokker jet services to Nadzab airport, Lae. The resumption of Fokker flights has been made possible as National Airports Corporation (NAC) continue to progress with the present runway works, which are now at the stage
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AIR NIUGINI APRIL 13 2022 Passengers flying to Australia: Air Niugini is pleased to advise that effective 1am on April 18, previous requirements for COVID-19 testing requirements prior to travel will cease. Passengers will not need to get a test prior to departure to Australia, and hence can proceed directly to the Departures Check in
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APRIL 11 2022 On Saturday, April 2, 2022, chopper pilot Captain David Takendu of HeliSolutions flew us from remote Maramuni in Enga to Mt Hagen in Western Highlands. Due to very bad weather, David flew us to near the border with East Sepik, and then behind Kompiam-Ambum in Enga to Baiyer Valley in Western Highlands
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APRIL 10 2022 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GULFPORT, Miss. — The remains of a U.S soldier killed in Papua New Guinea during World War II have been returned to his Mississippi community for burial after nearly 80 years. Pvt. Andrew Ladner was laid to rest Saturday at Wolf River Cemetery in Gulfport, WLOX-TV reported. Ladner was
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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
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