Bill Skate

Among them was Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister, Bill Skate, who asked hardliners and warlords to surrender their weapons. This was documented in the Ceasefire Agreement. Women were at the forefront, negotiating for peace. The Peace Monitoring Group, comprising security forces from ...

Among them was Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister, Bill Skate, who favourably went to simply request hard liners and war loads to surrender their weapons. And that was documented in the Ceasefire Agreement. Women were at the forefront, negotiating for peace. The Peace Monitoring Group ...

PNG Party rally during the 2012 Papua New Guinea election campaign. Photo: RNZI / Johnny Blades ... Her father, more widely known as Bill Skate, was prime minister from 1997 until 1999, when he resigned in the face of a motion of no confidence. He took on the premiership after Sir Julius Chan, whose ...

SIR Julius Chan played a pivotal role in shaping Papua New Guinea's first 40 years of independence. Playing the Game is his fascinating account of the exciting birth of PNG as a nation, and the challenging years that followed. It is also the .... He was defeated and succeeded as prime minister by Bill Skate.

"A series of foolish deficit budgets and mini-budgets have brought Papua New Guinea to the brink," Sir Mekere said. He said economic conditions were similar today to those caused by notorious former PNG prime minister, Bill Skate, who was a mentor to Mr O'Neill. "Only urgent action saved the nation from ...

Papua New Guinea is about to turn 40 — next Wednesday — and so is my love affair with that most beautiful and most maligned of lands. ... We — a brilliant group of young PNG journalists, with two or three foreigners including myself tagging along providing training and encouragement — launched a ...

For years the school has been building up and is the first school in Papua New Guinea to offer education to male students only from the beginning until the present ... a few): former PNG Prime Minister the late Sir William (Bill) Skate; Kandrian-Gloucester MP Joseph Lelang; country leader at General Electric PNG Peter Loko; ...

This is law and order in Papua New Guinea. The country is no worse than others like South Africa and Kenya that attract large-scale tourism. At the diving, trekking and bird-watching spots people are safe and well-protected. But people living and working in a few key urban centres - Port Moresby, Lae, and ...

The son of former Papua New Guinea prime minister Bill Skate has nominated himself for the seat left vacant by the death of his father in January. William Skate Junior, 25, has entered the by-election race for the National Capital District (NCD) regional seat based on Port Moresby. Hundreds of his cheering ...

Just before entering this auditorium, I had the opportunity to pay my respects at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi that had been installed in 1997 by Late Hon'ble Bill Skate, the then Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the ...

SIR Julius Chan played a pivotal role in shaping Papua New Guinea's first 40 years of independence. Playing the Game is his fascinating account of the exciting birth of PNG as a nation, and the challenging years that followed. It is also the story of a ...

Maipakai said the nation's future had been mortgaged, adding 'the future is bleak.' "This country has gone to the dogs.

On the eve of Taiwan's general election this January, Papua New Guinea (PNG) opened a trade representative office in Taipei - - an important move, considering the timing, and the up and down history behind Taipei and Port Moresby relations.