By Martyn Namorong

Mr Peter Kuman of Kuman Lawyers (shown seated as the project manger of Brilliant Investments is being sworn into the witness stand) is attending the Commission of Inquiry hearings in Wewak as counsel representing the exploiters of Marrienberg SPABL – Brilliant Investments.

Martyn Namorong

“Makeshift jobs!” That has been the impression of the Commissioner and the counsels assisting the Commission of Inquiry into Special Purpose Agriculture Business Leases. The Commission visted Marrienberg and the Nungawai-Bongos SPABL sites.

Ahead of this years National election in Vanuatu, MP Ralph Regenvanu has published the full details of how he has spent almost 10m vatu in public funds allocated to him over the past four years.

The details of how he has used the public funds allocated to him as an MP are being published both on his party website and in large posters.

Herein lies the problem - we MUST ACT NOW! - not just talk and theorize but ACT.

That might mean sometimes we mess up - and that's okay, but when we don't even act or try THEY "drink the water" and you can subsitute a million other phrases with that one can't you?

Martyn Namorong

Radio Australia

Forest clearance on disputed land-leases in Papua New Guinea is likely to continue at record levels for the next five to six years, according to the organisation which represents logging companies.

In 2011, logging on Special Agricultural and Business leases pushed Papua New Guinea's log exports to record highs - so much so that some commentators now place PNG as the second largest exporter of tropical logs in the world.

By Luana Paniu

The chairman of a landowner company has pledged that he and other dissatisfied landowners will not cease fighting against agriculture giant New Britain Palm Oil (NBPOL) until their terms and conditions are met.

Rigula Landowners Association chairman, David Kura said that he and landowners of the three land groups; Gule, Rikau and Meloks, were not happy with what they described as “standard” terms and conditions set by NBPOL under the Special Agriculture and Business Leases (SABL).

By Martyn Namorong

By Dorotea Saidor

A company is illegally logging on land on the Rai coast in Madang without the consent of local people and is exporting their logs.

The illegal logging is happening at Bongu Village, Block 1 Raicoast, Astrolabay, Madang Province (near the crash site for Airlines PNG, Madang)

The logging contractor, G&S Limited, is blatantly and openly logging and cutting logs without consent from the landowners.

"Five years after the Cyclone Guba disaster devastated the Oro Province, Many of the province's vital transport infrastructure remain in ruin. Many people continue to live in care centers and face water shortages and other difficulties