Guys let's get our stories recorded by writing

 There's  no more difficulties with you and me not owning a platform to publish our stories. 

We don't need big printers and cameras and satellite for TV broadcast or transmitters for radio signals. 

Here, your mobile phone and internet data connection is your platform.

You are reading this from a free blog site from blogger.

Just open a GMAIL account go to www.blogger.com and  create your free blogspot.

Take pictures with your mobile phone, write any story that you want your blog to publish and publish.

You are on the roll.

Share  your publications on social media and drive traffic.

You can earn money by activating Google Adsense.

Alternatively to earn higher income, you can liaise with companies to display their advertisement on your blog site. 

They send the advert to you and you use Elfsight to create HTML tags  and embed that to your website, the ads are now live.

You can charge probably K10 for 24 hours depending on your traffic and reach. 

Our stories can best be digitised by writing and publishing videos or photos.

Port Moresby's ghetto

 Don't mess with life.

You can be reduced to such a life living under a make shift shelter hidden in a corner at a street in prime location like Boroko.

Life is a struggle.

Port Moresby doesn't have reliable statistics about homeless ness and ghetto squatting.

But people like police officers and private security personnel who work into nights and mornings know very well what life is for many struggling Port Moresby inhabitants. 

Many of these people survive through informal sales of betel nut and cigarettes.

There could be drugs sold under discrete business deals, just in the name of survival.

The National Housing Corporation has come under spotlight by commentators. 

The big issue. What has it done to address housing woos in the country.

In metropolitan areas like Port Moresby and Lae- affording a decent home is challenging.

Families are living in one bedroom renting at K300 per fortnight (USD 100.00)

This is what struggling  families are enduring.

If one is on a K50,000 per annum salary, you can not afford a decent home.

Elevala lass is 50th Hiri Hanenamo queen

 The story of the famous Hiri trade on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea is more than 50 years old.

But commemoration of this significant cultural trade is this year 2024 reached 50.

Congratulations. 

Part of the event is crowning of the Hiri Hanenamo queen and this year is a beautiful lass from Ele Vala ( a hamlet in the big Hanuabada village) just near Port Moresby Technical College. 

She is Henao Heni.

Steamship Trading Company who had been in Papua New Guinea doing business before the country's birth in 1975 is the major financial supporter.

A home on the Sepik River collapses

 

This is an account by Emmanuel Peni who lost his home due to floods in the Sepik region.

I lost my house this morning due to the floods amd the earthquake.  At 9.30am, standing at this fancy hotel lobby, wearing H&M jeans and a shoe bought in Sydney  's QBV, and seeing people in png struggling gives me perspectives. 

 I just saw a disabled child walking by the hotel, at the gate, dressed in rags looking into the hotel with wonder and realised:  the issue of my house falling over and collapse,  due to flooding amd the earthquake last night,  is by measure of human suffering,  nothing.  I long for peace.   

This I know we can not attain, but this perspective keeps me going on and balances my loss and pain.  ❤️❤️🙂❤️😎

The East Sepik Provincial government is responding to the disaster. 

Read here what Governor Allan Bird said.

Sandis Tsaka re-elected PNGRFL Chairman

Sandis Tsaka was re-elected as the Chairman of the PNG Rugby Football League following the Annual General Meeting held at the Lae International Hotel yesterday. 

Sandis Tsaka was voted in for the fourth time as the Chairman of Papua New Guinea Rugby Football League. 

He received 32 votes while his opposing candidate Tony Sipa received 13 votes. 

NBC Sports is awaiting an official statement with details from the PNG Rugby Football League however many supporters of Tsaka have already posted on social media about the successful re-election of Sandis Tsaka.  

In other outcomes of the PNGRFL AGM, Jacob Ivaroa is said to be the new Chairman of the PNGRFL Southern Confederate, ousting former Chairman Gwaibo Mairi who held that post for a long time. 

Sources who attended the AGM stated that Ivaroa won the race with 10 votes while Gwaibo Mairi got 3 votes. 

PNG Law Society protests against break down in respect for laws

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2024,  here it is.

Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific has made bad headliners in 2024.

A terrible public unrest in the capital Port Moresby with shops looted and burnt on January 10, 2024.

Then there was massacre in the upper highlands region of the country.

The Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika condemned the looting and unrest during the legal year opening which has the theme "Adherance to the rule of law".

Now the law society in PNG protests that the government should immediately look into addressing the law and order concerns.

The law society also called on the James Marape led government to address many other development concerns.

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Beng Beng: Vanimo identity

 Walk into the Port Moresby's Jackson Airport and you see someone arriving from Vanimo.

A known person would call out "oi sampela Beng Beng kam".

It's this Indonesian made sweet chocolate many in Vanimo buy at Batas (PNG Indonesia border).

Most say the taste the Batas ones have is different from ones bought in Port Moresby.

We need food experts to comment about this.