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POMAT MANUAI, CEO Border Development Authority It is tough surviving on a government wage in Port Moresby these days! Makes you wonder how public servants like Pomat Manuai (Border Development Authority) can find K750,000 for a flashy apartment in Cairns! When he is not sweating it out in Port Moresby Pomat and his family take refuge in their “large 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom luxury apartments with large patios”. The apartment is handily position in a “great location very close to Cairns CBD, Hospital, Tafe and Cairns Central Shopping Centre Kepis Wali, ex-MD of the Mineral Resource Authority, owns this K850,000 home in Cairns Kepis Wali is not just another public servant struggling to survive in the high cost environment of Papua New Guinea’s capital city, Port Moresby. No, Kepis is not struggling at all. As well as being able to afford life in the capital, Kepis Wali has enough money left over for a K850,000 kina house in the Cairns suburb of Bentley Park. It seems handing out Mining Leas

POMAT MANUAI, CEO Border Development Authority It is tough surviving on a government wage in Port Moresby these days! Makes you wonder how public servants like Pomat Manuai (Border Development Authority) can find K750,000 for a flashy apartment in Cairns! When he is not sweating it out in Port Moresby Pomat and his family take refuge in their “large 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom luxury apartments with large patios”. The apartment is handily position in a “great location very close to Cairns CBD, Hospital, Tafe and Cairns Central Shopping Centre Kepis Wali, ex-MD of the Mineral Resource Authority, owns this K850,000 home in Cairns Kepis Wali is not just another public servant struggling to survive in the high cost environment of Papua New Guinea’s capital city, Port Moresby. No, Kepis is not struggling at all. As well as being able to afford life in the capital, Kepis Wali has enough money left over for a K850,000 kina house in the Cairns suburb of Bentley Park. It se

By CHRISTOPHER PAPIALI I read with interest the profound views expressed by Dr. Charles Yala of National Research Institute. Land use, mobilization and converting land into viable economic corridors is a way forward for this country. Land to most respects is our umbilical cord, the very nerve centre that connects to everything from culture, family, clan and business and therefore it transcends at the highest peak of our societal living. PNG unlike the rest of the world continue to face daunting challenges relating to land. Our efforts to maximizing the land use potential was overwhelmingly discussed almost two decades ago when the previous government regimes discussed ways to grab hold of all customary/traditional land and transferring to the state. I am led to the efforts made by Loani Henao Lawyers some years ago, when this law firm was engaged by the government at that time to draft the policy surrounding the Land Mobilization Act and for obvious reasons there was widespread opposit

By CHRISTOPHER PAPIALI I read with interest the profound views expressed by Dr. Charles Yala of National Research Institute. Land use, mobilization and converting land into viable economic corridors is a way forward for this country. Land to most respects is our umbilical cord, the very nerve centre that connects to everything from culture, family, clan and business and therefore it transcends at the highest peak of our societal living. PNG unlike the rest of the world continue to face daunting challenges relating to land. Our efforts to maximizing the land use potential was overwhelmingly discussed almost two decades ago when the previous government regimes discussed ways to grab hold of all customary/traditional land and transferring to the state. I am led to the efforts made by Loani Henao Lawyers some years ago, when this law firm was engaged by the government at that time to draft the policy surrounding the Land Mobilization Act and for obvious reasons there was widesprea

WE pose this question because according to Ian Jinga, the Director-General of the Office of Security Coordination and Assessment which comes under the Department of the Prime Minister and National Executive Council, Papua New Guinea’s national security is stable and manageable. This was Mr Jinga’s conclusion when he delivered an update on PNG’s national security situation to the 10th meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Sub-Committee on Security in Port Moresby last Thursday, November 21. Present at the meeting was the Director General of the MSG Secretariat and Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu delegates and a representative of the FLNKS or Kanak Liberation Front of New Caledonia. Mr Jinga told his colleagues about PNG’s political impasse of 2011/2012 and the national election and how the country came out on top of these two critical events. He said: “… One of our main problems is prudent management of our limited resources to address many of our developmental challenges wh

WE pose this question because according to Ian Jinga, the Director-General of the Office of Security Coordination and Assessment which comes under the Department of the Prime Minister and National Executive Council, Papua New Guinea’s national security is stable and manageable. This was Mr Jinga’s conclusion when he delivered an update on PNG’s national security situation to the 10th meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Sub-Committee on Security in Port Moresby last Thursday, November 21. Present at the meeting was the Director General of the MSG Secretariat and Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu delegates and a representative of the FLNKS or Kanak Liberation Front of New Caledonia. Mr Jinga told his colleagues about PNG’s political impasse of 2011/2012 and the national election and how the country came out on top of these two critical events. He said: “… One of our main problems is prudent management of our limited resources to address many of our developmental challenges

By NATHAN DINGU While there are many Papua New Guineans rising right to the top of the corporate ladder in many institutions in PNG, I believe we are still more or less spectators especially in decision making in Papua New Guinea! First and foremost, while privatization has been seen as the ‘way’ forward – how many of the ‘privatized’ firms will see a Papua New Guinean as the top manager i.e. Chief Executive Officer within the next five years. We have many industries today in PNG and top firms in almost all sectors including mining, oil and gas, banking etc – how many of these have a training program that has an emphasis on training Papua New Guineans to lead these industries in this new millennium? Indeed, we certainly do need certain expertise where Papua New Guineans cannot do certain themselves. However do we need it all of the time? Certainly not and I believe you will agree with me especially when there are so many students of so many schools attaining the highest level including

By NATHAN DINGU While there are many Papua New Guineans rising right to the top of the corporate ladder in many institutions in PNG, I believe we are still more or less spectators especially in decision making in Papua New Guinea! First and foremost, while privatization has been seen as the ‘way’ forward – how many of the ‘privatized’ firms will see a Papua New Guinean as the top manager i.e. Chief Executive Officer within the next five years. We have many industries today in PNG and top firms in almost all sectors including mining, oil and gas, banking etc – how many of these have a training program that has an emphasis on training Papua New Guineans to lead these industries in this new millennium? Indeed, we certainly do need certain expertise where Papua New Guineans cannot do certain themselves. However do we need it all of the time? Certainly not and I believe you will agree with me especially when there are so many students of so many schools attaining the highest level includi

By GOVERNOR GARY JUFFA MP I see on the distant horizon, a wave approaching Papua New Guinea. It is a wave of the future and it is surely breaking on the shores of Papua New Guinea. It carries with it a great hope and inevitability where the People will be governed by the People, plotting a path to their own destiny, having full control of the steering wheel and the rudder even. The Politician and political creature will be historic anecdotes, fossils even, urban legends, mere things of the past. Here a new world will emerge whereby modern technology will provide guidance and surveillance, monitoring, enforcement, administration and punishment...there will be transparency and retribution will be swift, resources and assets carefully managed by consensus. Guided by a population of educated and intelligent citizens, assisted by groups and individuals who have vast global networks and influence, locally, regionally and internationally. Papua New Guinea will not only see the light at the en

This is the $600,000 home Petroleum Minister William Duma owns in the exclusive Cairns suburb of Redlynch. No. 38 Flindersia is described by real estate agents as: “a spectacular residence [with] 5 bedrooms and features a parents retreat upstairs with en-suite and balcony”. “Downstairs there are a further four bedrooms, separate living and media rooms and modern kitchen with stone benchtops and dishwasher. Open plan living areas open out on to two patios”. “The property is fully air-conditioned and and comes with solar hot water system”. The property is registered in the name of Willam Marra Duma: MRA CEO KEPAS WALI's 800K Cairns Property Kepis Wali is not just another public servant struggling to survive in the high cost environment of Papua New Guinea’s capital city, Port Moresby. No, Kepis is not struggling at all. As well as being able to afford life in the capital, Kepis Wali has enough money left over for a K850,000 kina house in the Cairns suburb of Bentley Park. It seems ha

This is the $600,000 home Petroleum Minister William Duma owns in the exclusive Cairns suburb of Redlynch. No. 38 Flindersia is described by real estate agents as: “a spectacular residence [with] 5 bedrooms and features a parents retreat upstairs with en-suite and balcony”. “Downstairs there are a further four bedrooms, separate living and media rooms and modern kitchen with stone benchtops and dishwasher. Open plan living areas open out on to two patios”. “The property is fully air-conditioned and and comes with solar hot water system”. The property is registered in the name of Willam Marra Duma: MRA CEO KEPAS WALI's 800K Cairns Property Kepis Wali is not just another public servant struggling to survive in the high cost environment of Papua New Guinea’s capital city, Port Moresby. No, Kepis is not struggling at all. As well as being able to afford life in the capital, Kepis Wali has enough money left over for a K850,000 kina house in the Cairns s

Papua New Guinea's treasurer has handed down an $A6.8 billion budget for 2013, plunging the developing nation more than $A1 billion into the red in a bid to improve the country's failing infrastructure. Don Polye on Tuesday announced increased spending for PNG's health, education, infrastructure and law and order sectors, as well as a plan to shift control of some state monies away from the nation's capital, Port Moresby, to provincial governments. PNG's economy is expected to grow by four per cent over the next year, substantially slower than the 9.2 per cent growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012. The deficit announced on Tuesday amounts to 7.2 per cent of PNG's GDP and is projected to decline to 5.9 per cent in 2014, before falling sharply to 1.6 per cent in 2017. Mr Polye said the next budget surplus was expected in 2017. Inflation, which dipped to four per cent year on year in 2012, is expected to climb to eight per cent in 2013, just

Papua New Guinea's treasurer has handed down an $A6.8 billion budget for 2013, plunging the developing nation more than $A1 billion into the red in a bid to improve the country's failing infrastructure. Don Polye on Tuesday announced increased spending for PNG's health, education, infrastructure and law and order sectors, as well as a plan to shift control of some state monies away from the nation's capital, Port Moresby, to provincial governments. PNG's economy is expected to grow by four per cent over the next year, substantially slower than the 9.2 per cent growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012. The deficit announced on Tuesday amounts to 7.2 per cent of PNG's GDP and is projected to decline to 5.9 per cent in 2014, before falling sharply to 1.6 per cent in 2017. Mr Polye said the next budget surplus was expected in 2017. Inflation, which dipped to four per cent year on year in 2012, is expected to climb to eight per cent in 2013,

PNGEXPOSED Blog Recently PNGexposed has posted a series of articles that scrutinize the past of Rex Paki. Paki currently sits on the Board of the PNG Sustainable Development Programmed and the Bank of PNG, in addition to being the Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority. These articles pointed out that Paki was slammed in two Commission of Inquiry reports, two Public Accounts Committee reports and an Auditor General report. In response to these articles, the Chairman of Transparency International PNG, Lawrence Stephens, who is also a Program Manager at PNGSDP, defended Paki, claiming these reports amounted to mere “unproven accusations”. PNGexposed took issue with this slight against PNG’s public accounting agencies and judicial organs, and our view was made known yesterday –  TI dismisses Commission of Inquiry findings . In response, Mr Stephens continued his defense of Rex Paki: “So where do we put a headline which points out that PNG Exposed is involved in astonishing displays of arro

PNGEXPOSED Blog Recently PNGexposed has posted a series of articles that scrutinize the past of Rex Paki. Paki currently sits on the Board of the PNG Sustainable Development Programmed and the Bank of PNG, in addition to being the Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority. These articles pointed out that Paki was slammed in two Commission of Inquiry reports, two Public Accounts Committee reports and an Auditor General report. In response to these articles, the Chairman of Transparency International PNG, Lawrence Stephens, who is also a Program Manager at PNGSDP, defended Paki, claiming these reports amounted to mere “unproven accusations”. PNGexposed took issue with this slight against PNG’s public accounting agencies and judicial organs, and our view was made known yesterday –  TI dismisses Commission of Inquiry findings . In response, Mr Stephens continued his defense of Rex Paki: “So where do we put a headline which points out that PNG Exposed is involved in astonishing disp