ARE STREET BOYS DRIVING MADANG TOURISTS AWAY?

Message to Barter: Weak families can produce street boys who turn to crime. Positive Living supports strong families.

I have been involved with PNG for 42 years and recall staying in quiet, peaceful Madang with officer cadets from Igam Barracks in 1977.

But in recent years, Madang has changed partly because of the street boys and partly because of RamuNico. It used to be a family town and a place where retirees spent their days.

Now we read of trouble and violence. There is the problem of the anti-family focus of the owner of Madang Resort Hotel.

He does not show good business sense in opposing family in the national AIDS campaign. He should be promoting Madang as a family town.

He blames the Government for a downturn in tourism. But he has to accept part of the blame as this town is developing an image of violence and paedophile sleeze. 

Positive Living messages would be banned in the AIDS care groups in Madang in favour of a gay and lesbian agenda.

I would not allow my grand-sons to work in Madang either in a hotel or on boat cruises. They would be in moral danger from foreign paedophiles.