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Civil Society denounces World Bank's conference on land & poverty

They may think that they have the perfect solutions to con us and take/use our customarily owned land but we will not remain fools. Whose interest is the World Bank serving ? becuase we now know from past experiences that they defiantly don't have our (grassroot people) interest at hand. We dont want your money making ventures and your banks so you can keep your suits and your policies and we'll keep and manage our land!

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MPs and Political Parties failure to provide Financial Returns: A Sign of Institutional Weakness?

Gande James* | NRI Commentary

The Office of the Registrar of Political Parties and Candidates has finally decided to take a tough stand by referring 23 elected Members of Parliament (MPs) to the PNG Ombudsman Commission. The MPs failed after several notices were issued to submit their financial returns within three months after the date they were declared successful and the return of writs.

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Important to Assess Development Models

The following letter is a timely reminder...

Source: The National

 

THE prime minister has finally received the interim report of the commission of inquiry (COI) into the special agricultural and business leases (SABL).

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Autonomous Bougainville Government on Fact Findiing Mission

 

via The Jet Newspaper (Fiji)

A group of senior officials from the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) will visit the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs and its affiliated statutory bodies this week.

The ABG is the government of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, which was established in 2000 following a peace agreement between the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA).

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Facebook is bringing a seismic shift in Papua New Guinea politics

By Jo Chandler

About 1pm on Thursday, the ''Twitter'' drums started beating out news of the latest disaster to befall Papua New Guinea - reports that the passenger ferry MV Rabaul Queen had sunk early that morning in wild seas en route from the island of West New Britain to the mainland port of Lae.

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Somare has left Papua New Guinea a broken nation

By Allan Patience* 

Sydney Morning Herald  

THE primary cause of the recent ''mutiny'' by sections of the Papua New Guinea defence force is a mix of soldiers' anger overlow pay, their substandard living conditions, associated low morale, and grudges against some of their senior officers.

This has led some of them to back Sir Michael Somarein his quest for his reinstatement as prime minister, naively believing that the dishonoured promises of the past will somehow be honoured this time around.

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Kidu steps up as one women opposition

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.

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Transparency International 'part of the corruption problem'

From the PNG Exposed blog

Transparency International, which claims to be global watchdog on corruption, is in fact part of the corruption problem. TI misdirects attention away from many of the causes, beneficiaries and potential solutions to the theft of public monies.

TI labels countries like Papua New Guinea (currently ranked 154 out of 178 countries) as among the most corrupt while countries like Australia (currently ranked 8th) are lauded as among the least corrupt.

But scratch beneath the surface and what do we find?

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Oxford University gives cautious approval for the draft Sovereign Wealth Fund law

Dr Ashby Monk from the University of Oxford and co-director of the  Oxford SWF Project has given a cautious welcome to Papua New Guinea's draft Sovereign Wealth Fund law (which can be downloaded below - 6.4mb).

Ashby Monk

Papua New Guinea has finally published a draft law for its new sovereign fund: “The Organic Law on the Sovereign Wealth Fund“. Here are some of the key points to take away:

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Will the Engine Room Start Functioning ?

By Martyn Namorong

Doctors are failing health

Planners are failing Planning

Lawyers are failing Justice

Educationists are failing education

Etc...

It's time to turn the spotlight onto the people who are really running the country or rather doing is bad job at running it.

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