Adieu, KMC

This story is old news to people who live in Port Moresby, but the other day the Burns Phillips Building burnt down. For most of Port Moresby, this meant that the last of the big old colonial buildings are gone — a sad fate for a country which already has so few historic buildings. But more pressing for regular readers of this blog, many of whom live in places where a building built in 1900 does not count as ‘historic’ — the big loss is the KMC franchise, which went up in smoke along with the Tribal Den night club, the Internet cafe and (apparently) the National Narcotics Bureau. Here is a picture courtesy of the “Madang — Ples Blo Mi” blog:

Adieu, KMC.