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For three consecutive weeks, electricity in Papua New Guinea’s capital went off in the evenings. But this is not unusual for Port Moresby, a city dubbed “one of the least livable cities in the world” by The Economist Unit’s Global Livability Report 2021 in this week. Powes Parkop, the National Capital District Governor, where PortContinue reading “Powes Parkop is right: privatize PNG Power”

Drunkard students sexually assaulted a female student. On 7 June 2021 the female students protested against sexual harassment, which is an ongoing issue. They hosted a forum at the UPNG Forum Square to address it. The Media that were present to cover the story were attacked and chased by the male students who didn’t wantContinue reading “Good men still live at UPNG?”

By Gregory Bablis| Plessingsing [Republished with permission] Cultures around the world have different concepts of history and of time. The historicity of a people or place crystallizes in many forms etched in the environment, landscape, language, stories, and material culture. Legends, myths, fairy tales, creation stories or origin stories are just some examples. They areContinue reading “Don’t Make History a Fairy Tale!”

This photo by Joel Hamari from ‘The National’ newspaper confirms what I saw on 17 May 2021 at Rita Flyn: That foreigners dominated Rita Flynn, where vaccines are administered, to get vaccinated! The sad thing is, I wasn’t surprised when I saw many foreigners lining up for the vaccines at Rita Flynn – vaccines thatContinue reading “Vaccines intended for PNG going to foreigners in PNG?”

Earlier I posted a transcript of Dame Carol Kidu’s talk. Now I’m posting the video: The full transcript was published earlier in this blog: https://academicnomad.home.blog/2021/05/04/carol-kidu-how-did-i-win-win-and-win-again/?fbclid=IwAR1LqvUk1mHh5KkfUi1oR__BvPgFrn7gxoqfsPi6y53FYFb1qtqu-Gqo8lA