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General Dr Allan Marat yesterday said PNG will gain very little from the K40 billion to be spent during the construction phase of the LNG project. Dr Marat, whose public comments had often raised eyebrows in Government, said all major contract and sub-contract works in the project were going to foreigners, and Papua New Guineans would be left with the crumbs. He said he was forced to go public with his views after reading about foreigners picking up contracts in the project areas. He said the Government had itself to blame for this, especially past governments, for failing to prepare its citizens for the development of its natural resources. “My concern arose from the fact that past governments knew this country was blessed with resources, mineral and energy resources but, armed with this knowledge, nothing was really done to prepare our citizens for the exploitation of these resources,” he told reporters at a press conference yesterday. “We have wasted the last 33 years; we have

General Dr Allan Marat yesterday said PNG will gain very little from the K40 billion to be spent during the construction phase of the LNG project. Dr Marat, whose public comments had often raised eyebrows in Government, said all major contract and sub-contract works in the project were going to foreigners, and Papua New Guineans would be left with the crumbs. He said he was forced to go public with his views after reading about foreigners picking up contracts in the project areas. He said the Government had itself to blame for this, especially past governments, for failing to prepare its citizens for the development of its natural resources. “My concern arose from the fact that past governments knew this country was blessed with resources, mineral and energy resources but, armed with this knowledge, nothing was really done to prepare our citizens for the exploitation of these resources,” he told reporters at a press conference yesterday. “We have wasted the last 33 years; we

William Kapris Tell All Videos. Shocking when we have Sitting MPs and Ministers who sponsored the Bank Robbery in Madang and Kerema. Here is the Breakup: Patrick Pruaitch Minister for Finance paid- K300,000.00 Tony Aimo Minister for Housing paid- K300,000.00 Francis Marus Deputy Speaker paid K300,000.00 Full HQ Video Coming soon in a few days with subtitle. Sorry for Part 4...

William Kapris Tell All Videos. Shocking when we have Sitting MPs and Ministers who sponsored the Bank Robbery in Madang and Kerema. Here is the Breakup: Patrick Pruaitch Minister for Finance paid- K300,000.00 Tony Aimo Minister for Housing paid- K300,000.00 Francis Marus Deputy Speaker paid K300,000.00 Full HQ Video Coming soon in a few days with subtitle. Sorry for Part 4...

Peter Barter Former Health Minister At the risk of being accused of post-political interference, I cannot allow the development of the proposed so called “World Class Hospital” in the Central Province without challenging the absurdity of such a development when the entire health system throughout PNG is in dire straits, especially the existing provincial hospitals including the Port Moresby General Hospital. As the former Minister, albeit for a very short period, I worked hard for the Government to release funds to maintain existing health infrastructure from the two Supplementary Budgets. Initially we expected to have a total of K300 million released. This was eroded down to K187 million and out of those funds only a fraction was released on scoped projects that included major maintenance of operating theatres, redevelopment and urgent maintenance of Angau, Port Moresby, Madang, Wewak, Goroka, Mt Hagen, Kerema, Wabag and Wapendamanda, Bruan, Etep, Gaubin plus scores of h

Peter Barter Former Health Minister At the risk of being accused of post-political interference, I cannot allow the development of the proposed so called “World Class Hospital” in the Central Province without challenging the absurdity of such a development when the entire health system throughout PNG is in dire straits, especially the existing provincial hospitals including the Port Moresby General Hospital. As the former Minister, albeit for a very short period, I worked hard for the Government to release funds to maintain existing health infrastructure from the two Supplementary Budgets. Initially we expected to have a total of K300 million released. This was eroded down to K187 million and out of those funds only a fraction was released on scoped projects that included major maintenance of operating theatres, redevelopment and urgent maintenance of Angau, Port Moresby, Madang, Wewak, Goroka, Mt Hagen, Kerema, Wabag and Wapendamanda, Bruan, Etep, Gaubin plus scores of h

IF any public good will come out of amending section 27(4) of the Constitution, people living in communities across the length and breadth of this nation are yet to be told. This is a Government sponsored-amendment to the Constitution and the Organic Law and, yet, we have not seen the vast resources of the Government’s public relations machinery at work to promote debate on this law publicly. Since the amendment was introduced in Parliament by Esa’ala MP Moses Maladina last month, the Government has done very little to go out to the community to sell this proposed law. For the record, Parliament passed the proposed amendment 83-0. Members of the Opposition present also voted to pass it, although they now claimed they were misled and did not know what they were voting that day. A two-month break is required before the final vote can be taken for the proposal to become law. That vote will take place next week when Parliament sits. Essentially, section 27(4) of the Constitution empower

IF any public good will come out of amending section 27(4) of the Constitution, people living in communities across the length and breadth of this nation are yet to be told. This is a Government sponsored-amendment to the Constitution and the Organic Law and, yet, we have not seen the vast resources of the Government’s public relations machinery at work to promote debate on this law publicly. Since the amendment was introduced in Parliament by Esa’ala MP Moses Maladina last month, the Government has done very little to go out to the community to sell this proposed law. For the record, Parliament passed the proposed amendment 83-0. Members of the Opposition present also voted to pass it, although they now claimed they were misled and did not know what they were voting that day. A two-month break is required before the final vote can be taken for the proposal to become law. That vote will take place next week when Parliament sits. Essentially, section 27(4) of the Constitution empower

TUKUL WALLA KAIKU Contrary to what we may think, the call for autonomy for New Ireland is not a new one. To date there have been two calls for autonomy for New Ireland, the recent being the call since Sir Julius Chan assumed governorship of the New Ireland Province after the 2007 national elections and an earlier call of the 1960s up to the 1980s. There was in fact an earlier move for autonomy for New Ireland and in particular for New Hanover Island. That call took place in 1964 and continued up to the 1980s. The people behind it were three quarters of mostly those from the south, east and some parts of the north side of New Hanover Island who in the 1964 elections voted for President Johnson of America. The people wanted to be heard and understood and they wanted development for New Hanover. The type of development they wanted was that of a technologically innovative and advanced country like the United States and hence they wanted the United States to administer