PNG 'homecoming' for Charles, 50 years on
WHEN Prince Charles visited Papua New Guinea half a century ago, he was on a student exchange spent eating yams and bananas in the dorm with local school boys. Yesterday, his welcome back to the island nation was filled with more pomp and ceremony; a 21-gun salute, thousands of well-wishers, and flower garlands presented by women in tribal dress. Anticipation for the visit, which is part of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, had been building in impoverished PNG, with the Post-Courier newspaper on Friday declaring: "Welcome to Papua New Guinea, Your Royal Highnesses Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla!" The paper said the visit would be like a "home-coming" for Charles who first travelled to PNG in the 1960s when he was an exchange student in Australia and stayed at the Martyrs' Memorial Anglican School for boys in Northern Province. "The Prince did not stay with the school principal," it said. "He stayed with the boys at Sefoa Ga