EHP athletes kicked out of Taurama Barracks
The Eastern Highland’s athletes were told to pack their bags yesterday (Sunday) and find alternative accommodation around town with relatives and friends…
Sodoma and Gomorra
I have noticed during the relatively short time that I lived and worked in PNG that when people discuss corruption and other issues relating to failed progress that the finger of blame almost certainly gets pointed…
The luxury of solitude
Whilst Eli is in Port Moresby with the Eastern Highlands Hockey team for the PNG Games, I have the rare luxury of having the whole house to myself – no aunties or uncles, no ankle-biters, no brothers, sisters or…
trupela and schi.lt join forces!
It must be at least a week since I wrote a techo story. Apologies Mum, tonight I’m going to technobabble a little about Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Shortening Services. In almost laymen’s terms a way of mapping a long web-site address name (URL) to a shortened version.…
Rugby World Cup questions
These questions about South Africa were posted on a South African Tourism Website by foreigners around the world and were answered by the website owner (great sense of humour!)…
When will Papua New Guinea embrace Open Source?
Open Source Software remains a viable option for IT&C deployments in Papua New Guinea. Whilst many developing countries around the world continue to adopt Open Source Software…
The High Price of Democracy
No one takes their politics as seriously as the Highlander of Papua New Guinea. The current by-election for the Kandep District in the Enga Province is proving once again that clansmen will go to any lengths…
EHP athletes continue to starve at Taurama Barracks
Whilst the local media continues to paint a glamorous picture of the 2009 PNG Games currently under-way in Port Moresby, the athletes from the Eastern Highlands Team continue to go without adequate food…
The Best of News Feeds #21
Check out some articles, stories and technobabble which have recently found their way into my newsreader…
EHP athletes starving at Taurama Barracks!
Over 300 athletes from the Eastern Highlands team currently billeted at Taurama Barracks in Port Moresby for the 2009 PNG Games are yet to be fed!…
