PNG Gossip Newsletter - 26 Jul 2013

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Neo Melanesian

"Pidgin English"

Tok Pisin English
akis axe
bagarap break down / worn out
bagarapim spoil
banara bow
banaras bows and arrows
birua /tupela i bam/bagarap accident
dokta medical assistant / doctor
hama / hamarim hammer
masket / raifol / gan gun
pinis end / finish
rop bilong banara bowstring
spia/supia spear
supia bilong banara arrow
supia I gat huk barbed arrow or spear
supsup fish spear
supsup bilong banara pronged arrow
tamiok tomahawk

Webster's Online Dictionary
with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation

       

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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

Tkatchenko: Measures taken to stop sports violence -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53079

ISPs ‘ripping off people’ -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53140

National Youth football finals -- http://giaman.com/pg/?314763

Australia opens PNG info centre for scholarships and awards -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=77678

InterOil Enters Into a Combined $350.0 Million Refinery Working Capital Facility -- http://giaman.com/pg/?764389

Kokopo Athletics Championships winds down -- http://giaman.com/pg/?99c9dd

ICAC will fight corruption in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?2ae9f6 / ////////////

Pathologists join army to fight infectious diseases in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?1ca713

Total's Papua New Guinea Gas Search Gets 'Modest' Results -- http://giaman.com/pg/?ac39f5

PNG footballers to play big role in new NEAFL side -- http://giaman.com/pg/?a2f491





Misc. Links

Warapu Village -- https://www.google.com/search?q=warapu+village

Voice Off 11 on PNG tour -- http://giaman.com/pg/?7dc916

PNG Citizens can now apply for Aussie visas online -- http://giaman.com/pg/?642960

PNG's Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Manus Island detention centre -- http://giaman.com/pg/?49f4f6

Female prison wardens in PNG on notice over links with inmates -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=77272

PNG Post Code Index -- http://www.geopostcodes.com/papuanewguinea_zip_codes

PNG looks at Xstrata project takeover -- http://giaman.com/pg/?72ab4e

PNG Cars -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/169434989862218





PNG Images

Scenes From Port Moresby Suburbs -- http://giaman.com/pg/?c610c9

Jurgen Freund's underwater photographs -- http://twitpic.com/d056m3

Milne Bay province -- http://giaman.com/pg/?89bc5a

Goroka in the 70's -- http://travelmag.co.uk/?p=7291





PNG Blogs

Masalai Blog -- http://giaman.com/pg/?45698a

What price national pride? The PNG solution -- http://giaman.com/pg/?2ecb75

Fun in Port Moresby -- http://www.sailblogs.com/member/mokisha/?xjMsgID=280018

More about the development contributions of mining and petroleum companies in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?1061ae


News Items

Laloki Psychiatric Hospital

To help give you an insight into the Laloki Psychiatric Hospital just outside Port Moresby Jeffrey Alphonse a clinical supervisor at the Hospital goes through his typical day from start to finish.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?ef6d77





Mask Festival

The 19th National Mask Festival has ended in Kokopo, East New Britain province. The festival was staged simultaneously in West New Britain.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53059





PM Orders Police Out

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has ordered the withdrawal of a police mobile squad unit after the death of a young man in Manus over the weekend. The Prime Minister in his capacity as Police Minister also instructed the Police Commissioner to replace the police mobile unit and discipline those involved.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130717/news05.htm





Disaster Preparedness

The PNG government has bolstered its funding for disaster preparedness, strengthening the country's National Disaster Management Centre (NDC) to better respond to crises.

-- http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportID=98433





Highlands Highway

The PNG Government has allocated K30 million for a feasibility study on the rerouting of sections of the Highland Highway that are affected by continuous heavy rainfall and landslides.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53078

H'way in poor state -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130722/news17.htm

Unit set to fight looting -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53223





Air Niugini ATR's

Farnair Switzerland has dry-leased two freighters - an ATR 42-300(F), P2-PXY (c/n 87), and an ATR 72-200(F), P2-PXZ (c/n 198) - to partner Air Niugini. P2-PXY was previously wet-leased to the carrier but has now been transferred to the country's register.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?5224e2

Air Niugini to conclude code-shared agreement with Indonesia's Garuda Airline -- http://giaman.com/pg/?854963





First Constitution Reading Passed

Parliamentarians have passed the first reading of controversial legislation on proposed amendments to the PNG constitution related to parliament. The opposition has labelled the amendments a violation of a very significant law of the constitution.

-- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=77627





PNG Real Estate

Search for Port Moresby rental properties via Google Maps -- http://www.skerah.com/pngrealestate

The Real Estate Agents Association -- http://www.reia.org.pg

- http://www.realestate.com.pg (Inactive at the moment)

Arthur Strachan (Lae) -- http://www.arthurstrachan.com.pg

Century 21 -- http://www.century21.com.pg

Kohoy Real Estate -- http://kohoyrealestates.tripod.com

L.J Hooker -- http://png.ljhooker.com

Ray White Real Estate -- http://www.reia.org.pg/members/raywhite.htm

Strickland RE -- http://www.sre.com.pg

The Professionals -- http://www.theprofessionals.com.pg





Phones Confiscated

Mobile phones continue to be confiscated from people in court despite warnings to switch them off.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53304





Drugs Found

About five kilograms of dried cannabis intended for Manus was recently discovered by security guards at the Madang Airport. The suspected culprit from East Sepik Province was escorted by Guard Dog Security officers to Jomba Police Station.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130724/news16.htm





Tough Times Coming

Kostas Constantinou, one of Papua New Guinea's wealthiest property developers, is bracing for tough times. He has said "There's going to be a massive oversupply of hotel rooms and apartments it will be dog-eat-dog out there."

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?40cdeb

Papua New Guinea looks to entrepreneurs to escape 'resource curse' -- http://giaman.com/pg/?81190a





Police Assaulted

Police officers at Margarima station, in Komo-Margarima district, Hela, were assaulted by a group of drunkards while leaving for an election briefing in Tari. The drunkards, headed by a senior public servant and an LLG presidential candidate, almost knifed an officer who had to be quickly rescued by fellow officers and community leaders at the scene.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53153





Remembrance Day Forgotten

PNG Remembrance Day was forgotten in the second biggest city in the country. Residents of Lae were disappointment over the non-staging of any event to commemorate Remembrance Day on the 23rd of July. Residents that turned up at the Lae War Cemetery found a deserted cemetery.





Kapris Shot Dead

Bank robber William Kapris has been killed in a shoot-out with police, ending a nearly three-month man-hunt. Kapris and his accomplice Raphael Walimini were shot and killed on Monday evening along the Hiritano Highway at Camp 48 between Gabadi village and Doa Plantation near Bereina government station, about 45km outside of Port Moresby.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?4bdc0f

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53237





GST Win

The Central Provincial Government has won a major victory in the National Court that may see it get about K100 million from the National Capital District Commission and the Internal Revenue Commission.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130722/news14.htm





Soldier Rampage

Defence Minister Dr Fabian Pok says Papua New Guinea Defence Force soldiers who took part in last Sunday's rampage at the University of PNG's Medical Faculty will be court-martialled and dismissed.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53085

Soldiers claim medical students incited stand-off -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53083

Port Moresby Hospital resumes normal services -- http://giaman.com/pg/?ec8576

Former PNGDF commander partly blames Australia for ill-discipline -- http://giaman.com/pg/?d8ae8a

Australia unveils plans to send police to PNG a day after armed soldiers ransack Port Moresby hospital -- http://giaman.com/pg/?767987

Compensate Medfac students -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130724/news14.htm





New PNGDF Barracks

A small team from the Papua New Guinea Defence Force quietly walked into the West New Britain Provincial Government Office recently in a calculative visit to negotiate for a space to build an Engineering Battalion base in the province.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130722/news19.htm





Water for Chivasing Villagers

The people of Chivasing, Wampar local level government, in Morobe have celebrated the installation of a water pump. PNG Water Drillers opened the tap recently watched by excited villagers who had been without good quality, clean water for over 28 years.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53133

Kerema Water Project Funds Given -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjeWXAZogk





Male Circumcision in PNG

A significant number of men in PNG are prepared to be circumcised once they learn that this can reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS, opening the door to future interventions, say experts.

-- http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportID=98452





State of Origin

A man is dead after two groups fought over the result of the Australian State of Origin Rugby League match between Queensland and New South Wales. Several properties were also burnt to the ground following a fight at the Bumbu settlement in Lae, Morobe province. Eyewitnesses said both parties were under the influence of alcohol.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53086

Origin fight condemned -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/53152





Processing Centre 2 Years Away

Manus Island MP Ronnie Knight says he believes that it will take about two years to build a permanent facility on Manus. Mr Knight doubts Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's claim that approved refugees will eventually be settled in PNG.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?4458de





Settlement to be Bulldozed

The ATS settlement, opposite Jackson's airport in Port Moresby, has been identified as a potential new site where genuine asylum seekers would be resettled in PNG. An estimated 3000 - 4000 people live on the site and may face eviction from their homes. The site is near the PNGDF's Air Transport Wing.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?fd3e43

What about existing refugees from West Papua? -- http://giaman.com/pg/?61b384





PNG Languages

Wycliffe Associates hopes to launch up to 100 new language projects in PNG. It's the largest and most comprehensive bible translation effort in the history of the country.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?c1a347

A total of 836 living languages are spoken in the South Pacific island nation, representing about 12% of the world's languages.





Asylum Seekers

People attempting to seek asylum in Australia will now face being flown directly to Papua New Guinea within hours of arrival at Christmas Island. An option being considered for asylum seekers is to establish a large centre alongside Port Moresby's international airport in addition to the detention centre on Manus Island that can hold 300 people.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?bdc431

Risks for asylum seekers -- http://giaman.com/pg/?902a50

New deal for refugees -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130722/news01.htm





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.

Pacific Mini Games - Wallis and Futuna 2013

2013 Pacific Netball Series (hosted by Fiji)

East Sepik Crocodile Festival -- 6th - 7th August 2013

Mt. Hagen Cultural Show -- 17th - 18th August 2013

Goroka Show 14th - 15th August 2013 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?628db5

National Canoe & Kundu Festival -- Nov 2013

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

5th Melanesian Festival of Arts - July 2014 -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130322/news05.htm

Pacific Mini Games - Vanuatu 2017

2018 - APEC summit to be held in Port Moresby.

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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