Jamaica to break links with Queen, says Prime Minister Simpson Miller
Jamaica's new Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, has said she intends to make the island a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth as the head of state.
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By Patrick Levo
Serious concerns have been expressed about the ‘modus operandi’ of the Pacific International Hospital in Port Moresby.
Public anger was raised against the private hospital after yet another avoidable death caused allegedly by the hospital’s uncompromising policy of “cash before treatment”.
While the Commission of Inquiry into Special Agriculture and Business Leases continues, revealing the layers of corruption and incompetence in the allocation of the 99-year SAB leases, the PNGExposed blog has republished the findings of an earlier Commission of Inquiry which reported in 2009 the Department of Lands was corrupt and incompetent. Its recommendations for a full Commission of Inquiry into DoL were ignored….
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By Felicity Lawrence (Guardian UK)
We are all Occupiers
People the world over salute the Occupy movement for standing up to injustice and fighting for equality at the heart of empire
By Arundhati Roy*
Forty-two years ago, in March 1968, Bobby Kennedy explained to Americans why they were wrong to judge progress through the prism of the US's gross domestic product, which made them slaves to consumption and the accumulation of material things.
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The National newspaper, owned by Malaysian logging giant Rimbunan Hijau, and partisan supporter of the Ramu nickel mine and foreign owned resource operations in general, has taken a swipe at the SABL land grab Commission of Inquiry and just about everything else the government is trying to do to protect the interests of ordinary Papua New Guinean's. When your read your daily newspaper it is good to remember whose interests it is representing and protecting....
VERY few things happen in isolation in today’s world of globalising business and commerce.
Rising cost of living throughout PNG is not just the price we pay for bad governance but the net effects of a world gone crazy.
There is hyperinflation in the months ahead. The evidence is everywhere.
From the Peter O'Neill fanclub of POM
This is a very real and genuine feeling by a group of PNG middle class sporters concerning the new PM. Yes the wording is harsh in places but our politicians have been treated too delicately for much to long. Its time we catch up with the rest of the world and start really holding our pollies accountable.
