From The Masalai Blog

By JEFFREY ELAPA and ISAAC NICHOLAS

The National, Monday 26th March 2012

CHIEF Secretary Manasupe Zurenuoc said students rallying to protest the passing of the Judicial Conduct Bill last Friday were exercising their rights and praised them for their good conduct and behaviour during the event.

“You have the right to respond  ... and I must thank (NCD police chief Andy) Bawa for being cooperative and allowing all you to march.”

Our Pacific Ways

Hats off to the students of the University of Papua New Guinea who on Friday showed their disagreement on the new Judicial Conduct Bill. 

They marched down the street of Port Moresby to the parliament house and presented their petition to Secretary Manasupe Zurenuoc as Papua New Guineans expressed their support through mobile phone messages that flooded the students phones.

The new bill gives government the power to suspend judges.

ABC news

The University of PNG student body, led by it's Student Representative Counsel, staged a peaceful protest march in Port Moresby, today.

In response to PNG Parliament's controversial passing of the Judicial Conduct Act 2012, which places absolute powers in the hands of parliament to discipline judges, the Student Representative Council, sanctioned a protest march to the National Parliament for the reversal of the law. Several thousand students and supporters converged on the streets of Port Moresby in a show of solidarity against a bad law.

Source: The National

By LESLIE OMARO

THE Public Employees Association has maintained its stand on the K250 housing allowance subsidy for public servants.

Association president Michael Malabag said it was a requirement for public servants to get housing subsidies so they could afford decent accommodation because many lived in settlements.

But Malabag said since last year, the housing allowance was never paid as it was still before the Public Service Arbitration and Conciliation Tribunal.

By TODAGIA KELOLA

POLICE Commissioner Toami Kulunga and two of his senior officers were yesterday released on bail by the Supreme Court on contempt of court charges.