By Luana Paniu

A LAWYER registered by Investment Promotion Authority (IPA) as an executive for an investor company over a controversial SABL in Vanimo appeared Wednesday with absolutely no information about the SABL, reports the Post Courier.

The Executive for the Bewani Palm Oil Development Limited has been summoned before the Commission of Inquiry to give evidence as the SABL holding entity’s secretary, reports the Post Courier.

Tom Sirae, who is the Company Secretary, will also be required to inform the Commission as to whether there was any public hearings held to obtain Landowners consensus on whether Portion 106C could be converted into an SABL.

The executive for the Bewani Palm Oil Development Limited has been summoned before the Commission of Inquiry to give evidence tomorrow as the SABL holding entity’s secretary, reports the Post Courier.

Mr Tom Sirae, who is the Company Secretary, will also be required to inform the Commission as to whether there was any public hearings held to obtain Landowners consensus on whether Portion 106C could be converted into an SABL.

By Simon Merton

Whilst the political squabbling continues,............ the poor continue to suffer without complaint day by day. 

Children in the city carry water up mountains to their settlement homes every afternoon, children in the village gather around their bubu's transistor radio and wonder and dream about going to the big city one day, no doubt they will surly be dissapointed when that day comes. 

Mothers pray that their children wont get sick because the aid post is 3 days walk away and doesnt have any medicine anyway. 

By Dr Kristian Lasslett*

At around 4am last Tuesday morning, a landslide 1.5km along swept through Tumbi, in Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands, while residents lay asleep.

Photo AP/Post Courier

Reporting from the ground, Andrew Alphonse conveys a scene of devastation:

By Effrey Dademo, ACT NOW! Program Manager

SOPAC, a division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), is pushing ahead with a European Union funded project to promote experimental deep-sea mining in the Pacific region without first consulting with communities about whether this form of mining is environmentally, socially or economically appropriate.

By LNG Watch 

LNG Watch has called for an independent investigation into the cause of the recent Tumbi landslide disaster.

By Jo Chandler

AS THE only female MP in Papua New Guinea's resolutely macho 109-member Parliament, Queensland-born Dame Carol Kidu is well accustomed to running a lonely race, reports The Age.

Now she's proposing to form a one-woman opposition and - in the absence of other contenders - be recognised by the Parliament as opposition leader.

The move was compelled by her distress over the political machinations behind the short-lived military mutiny on Thursday which aimed to restore Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare as prime minister.

Submitted by Ryu 

By reading some comments made by others, I believe people do not really understand what the underlaying problems are here in Papua New Guinea regarding the issuance of SABL.