My role with the Development Bank quickly expanded to undertaking field appraisals of new loan applications for large-scale rural enterprises and regular reviews of existing facilities. Most of these properties were owned and operated...
Sir Hubert Murray, Lieutenant Governor of the Territory of Papua from 1907 to 1940, trained as a lawyer but had a continuing interest in anthropology. He believed that a better understanding of the customs...
The Kokoda Track, which runs ninety-six km through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea, was the location of the 1942 World War II battle between Japanese and Australian forces in what was...
Compiled in 1964 by JK McCarthy, Director of Native Affairs, Konedobu, Papua, the following information records the establishment of government stations in New Guinea until the early 1960s. 1880s: Flag raised in 1884. New...
The roar of the engine was intense. I was escorting a patient in pain from Kundiawa District Hospital in Chimbu to Goroka General Hospital, and the pilot was trying to gain height to cross...
Medical services in Papua New Guinea were poorly developed until after WWII when the Australian Government established a combined administration of the pre-war Territory of Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea into...
Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare,GCL GCMG CH CF SSI KStJ KSG PC 9 April 1936 – 26 February 2021 Known as the Father of the Nation and Papa Blo Kantri, Sir Michael led PNG...
