In a Market Society, everything is for sale...
Paul B. Farrell | Wall Street Journal
Yes, capitalism is working ... for the Forbes 1,000 Global Billionaires whose ranks swelled from 322 in 2000 to 1,426 recently. Billionaires control the vast majority of the world’s wealth, while the income of American workers stagnated.
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Our Pacific Ways reflects on Our Pacific traditions for inspiration to move Our Pacific People forward.
It challenges the current systems of exploitation and asks: What if we did things Our Pacific Way?
What if we told you that Our Ancestors were the best navigators using the sun and the stars to travel the Liquid Continent?
By Martyn Namorong
Papua New Guinean film maker Scott Waide’s recent video (see below) featuring the squalid living conditions of police in the Madang Province, highlighted the humanity and fragileness of these men in blue in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
No doubt there are shit cops who in many ways have defined the way the public sees the police force. But when one is presented with shit living conditions yet chooses to continue to serve the public, surely such service is beyond “just doing one’s job”.
Martyn Namorong
Take a look at that child above: in theory he could have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, if his father owned the land that is now Port Moresby.
Instead, he lives in a slum. Literally living on top of shit.
The National Development Bank, backed by multi-million kina funding from the government, has launched a new campaign to return control of the nation’s small business sector to Papua New Guineans.
Bank managing director Richard Maru says it is an “eye sore” and a crime against the people that 90% of retail shops, particularly trade stores and food bars, are being run by foreign nationals and migrants.
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.
By Catherine Wilson
Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living.
Photo: Women at Gordons market (Catherine Wilson/IPS)
The need for a grassroots-led economic enterprise to aid equitable and sustainable development is nationally recognised, but awaits better governance, infrastructure and facilities.
By Martyn Namorong*
FORMER Papua New Guinea Customs Commissioner Gary Juffa has condemned the recent announcement that Papua New Guinea would return to talks related to the South Pacific Tuna Treaty (SPTT). Mr Juffa described its as one of the many worse deals Papua New Guinea’s ruling elite continue to enter into on behalf of the country.
