Mr Willz

11/01/2025

.....it's heart breaking 💔🥺 to see Elders being treated unfairly by someone whom they raised as their own....

Below is a father beaten up by his own son..

Sorce: Jay Apa Mix Apo

09/01/2025

...It's 2025 and it already feels like a YEAR without RAIN...🥺

03/01/2025

😔🤥

31/12/2024

Thank you Lord for the strength of over coming challenges
In the year 2024

28/12/2024

........which is which...🐷🐽

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 everyone ❤

24/12/2024

😘❤

20/12/2024

17/12/2024

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15/12/2024

😔🥺

14/12/2024

😌🥺

11/12/2024

It’s been said that Paul Pora was the Highlands first multi-millionaire.

Pora walked to Chimbu from Tega in Western Highlands to attain his primary education and completed it at Finschhafen, Morobe. He did his high school at Bugandi in Lae, continuing onto Sogeri outside NCD. He was the second lot of intake for the new University of PNG and was described as a quiet, thoughtful and ferociously clever political science student at the University of PNG in 1975.

PAUL PORA: a great leader who loved the land
Credit: KEITH JACKSON
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We shared Prof Rex Mortimer’s politics honours class with Utula Samana, Ben Sabumei, Rabbie Namaliu, Sinai Brown and a guy who went on to be prime minister of the Solomons. It was quite a team. I was the only one never elected to Parliament.

Paul rarely said much. But what he did say was always insightful, expressed eloquently, and presented with humility. He had a charm and charisma that were understated, and the more potent because of that.

After leaving UPNG, Paul worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia, rising to be registrar of the savings and loans division, before becoming council clerk of Mt Hagen where he developed the council’s business arm, the still successful Wamp Nga group of companies.

He then went into business himself, establishing a prudently diverse enterprise - the Dobel Farming and Trading company. He was made the first chairman of Air Niugini and, in 1987, entered politics where he was elected three times as Member for Hagen Open, serving as Minister for Finance and Minister for Civil Aviation.

His political comrades speak of his honesty, loyalty and calm demeanor in the midst of PNG’s worst financial crisis in late 1980s when he was Finance Minister.

“He was the ideal man to pull PNG out of financial strife when PNG’s biggest mining project, Bougainville Copper, prematurely closed,” said Sir Rabbie Namaliu.

“The task was on [Paul] to immediately design a rescue package for PNG that would minimise the impact