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It is all because of corruption that our sisters are giving birth on hospital floors

On 30 Mar, 2011 By tok stret With 3 Comments

This is the reality that our leaders continue to ignore. This is the reality that our Prime Minister and his ministers continue to ignore. This is the reality that our health minister Sasa Zibe continues to ignore!

Papua New Guinean women are giving birth on the floor because there aren't enough beds. We have the means to take care of our people. We have the resources to make life better for women giving birth. Why aren't we doing it?

Where have the billions gone? Where do they end up?

On 23 Mar, 2011 By rait man

Spotted on PNG Blogs

BETWEEN 2003 and 2008, the Somare government amassed a whopping K6 billion in extra revenue. That is money over and above what was budgeted each year. The excess billions were parked in trust accounts and drawn down in one-off payments which were approved in a number of mid-year supplementary budgets.

This Parliament - and the next?

On 20 Mar, 2011 By rait man

By James Macpherson, Eric Kwa and Ray Anere*

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Political climate change can create a political cyclone. Controversies over parliament’s election of the Governor-General, votes of no-confidence, environmental legislation, integrity of political parties, and infrequent meetings of parliament are political climate changes. Parliament risks unconstitutionality and irrelevance. This could be the cyclone.

PNG suffers chronically in bad resource deals

On 17 Mar, 2011 By rait man With 1 Comments

From a Special Correspondent*

Papua New Guinea suffers chronically from the way in which state equity participation is negotiated in major resource extraction projects.

A combination of the worst possible behaviour from international resource companies, which is as bad in PNG as it is in any country in the world, abetted by the incompetence of the National Government in negotiating equity participation, means that PNG ends up seeing its resources shipped offshore with the lowest possible returns to the Nation.

The future looks bleak if we do not learn from others failures

On 09 Mar, 2011 By rait man

By David Ephraim Cloudiuz

Lessons from Nigeria, a nation that best illustrates the contradictions of being a producer of crude oil but an importer of petrol and diesel; when commercial extractions of crude oil began in Nigeria in 1958, the nation was producing 4,000 barrels per day. This climbed to over 2.2 million daily, Apart from fueling climate change; crude oil exploitation in Nigeria has fuelled corruption, poverty, disease and violence.

Watch Papua New Guinea fall

On 04 Mar, 2011 By rait man With 1 Comments

From a Frustrated Citizen writing on Papua New Guinea blogs

Papua New Guinea as we know is now totally corrupt, the Judiciary the last beacon of hope for PNG is not as impartial as it used to be. In recent months we very experiences Judges sitting in the National and Supreme Court have been made to quit without having their tenures extended only to be replaced by senior lawyers who have been part of this government’s grab of power and statutory corruption at the beginning.

Has Papua New Guinea descended into dictatorship?

On 01 Mar, 2011 By rait man

By PAUL OATES

Has Papua New Guinea descended into dictatorship?

PNG's Prime Minister Somare has previously denied he has become a dictator but what is a dictator? Here are a couple of definitions:

Wikipedia: A dictator is a ruler (e.g. absolutist or autocratic) who assumes sole and absolute power ….

Papua New Guinea and the Jasmine Revolution

On 28 Feb, 2011 By rait man With 12 Comments

University of PNG student, Nou Vada, examines the roots of the Jasmine revolution that is sweeping across Africa and the Middle East and ponders what it might mean for Papua New Guinea where many of the same frustrations and discontent are clearly visable.

By Nou Vada

We need a revolution - a Melanesian revolution

On 27 Feb, 2011 By tok stret With 2 Comments

By Icarus*

WHILE PNG's SITUATION may not justify bloody warfare, we are at war. At war against corruption in government and throughout the public service system, the very architects and mechanisms that should make our state function.

But it is the State versus the People every day. And clearly the State has no rules of engagement. Moreover, the People have been divided for far too long into warring factions; tribal politics under the rhetoric of 'unity in diversity'.

Come out and explain the K4 billion day-light robbery

On 17 Feb, 2011 By Tim

Acting Deputy Police Commissioner operations Fred Yakasa again gave us a stark reminder of corruption in Papua New Guinea when he said on Tuesday that a mammoth 50% of its budget annually is lost to fraud. This works out to a whopping K4 billion a year, which Yakasa bluntly said had gone into the hands of corrupt public servants and senior bureaucrats, many of whom he alleges have invested these gains overseas.

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