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This just came from scribes in Parliament: Parliament has just passed a new law stopping landowners from interfering with developing companies like Ramu Nickel and LNG. This effectively stops landowners from expressing how they feel about developing projects. Ten from the Opposition voted against it. Seventy three voted for it.

This just came from scribes in Parliament: Parliament has just passed a new law stopping landowners from interfering with developing companies like Ramu Nickel and LNG. This effectively stops landowners from expressing how they feel about developing projects. Ten from the Opposition voted against it. Seventy three voted for it.

PNG Exposed We reported a few days ago on an email conversation with the Prime Minister’s daughter and Press Secretary about the Paraka Scams in which she struggled to explain why the government had not been to court to lift the injunction against prosecutions. Since then a few more emails have passed back and forth (which you can read below) but now Betha Somare seems to have pulled the plug; leaving us with the astonishing assertion that while yes, there are illegal activities going on, the government cannot be blamed and there are many positive developments for which the government gets no credit. Read the exchanges below and see if you are convinced…. Email 1. Betha Somare: As I mentioned in my previous email, I am not a lawyer and will pass on 
matters you have raised to the Attorney General’s office. Hopefully
they will be able to advise the way forward for government. Regards, Betha Somare, PM’s Media Unit Email 2. An observer responded: Thanks Beta for “at least” responding. B

National Editorial NORTHERN acting administrator Owen Awaita yesterday lamented the dire financial position of several local level governments in his province. While acknowledging the concerns of the LLGs, Awaita said funds had been delayed by the Department of Treasury. Problems facing the Higaturu, Kokoda, Kira, Kamata and Oro Bay LLGs are not exclusive to these LLGs alone. Throughout the country, LLGs have been operating on shoestring budgets and some with nil funds for many years. This third tier of government, the most neglected in the country, is also what we could refer to as the rock-face, or the frontline, in the development fight. Here is where the problems are, where the people are. Here is where the government ought to be concentrating most of it policies and programmes on, and it is not. Part of this problem lies with the national government and Parliament, in the way the law has been drafted and how government had consistently contravened certain provisions. Part of it l

National Editorial NORTHERN acting administrator Owen Awaita yesterday lamented the dire financial position of several local level governments in his province. While acknowledging the concerns of the LLGs, Awaita said funds had been delayed by the Department of Treasury. Problems facing the Higaturu, Kokoda, Kira, Kamata and Oro Bay LLGs are not exclusive to these LLGs alone. Throughout the country, LLGs have been operating on shoestring budgets and some with nil funds for many years. This third tier of government, the most neglected in the country, is also what we could refer to as the rock-face, or the frontline, in the development fight. Here is where the problems are, where the people are. Here is where the government ought to be concentrating most of it policies and programmes on, and it is not. Part of this problem lies with the national government and Parliament, in the way the law has been drafted and how government had consistently contravened certain provisions. Par

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National Reports Senior public servants in the province and their cronies, in collusion with the banks, helped themselves to about K5 million of the total K18 million relief funds between 2007 and 2009, the auditor-general said in the report to the manager of the state-established Oro Restoration Authority, Sinai Brown. As a result, there were no major capital works and significant maintenance to restore services and infrastructure damaged by the cyclone in November 2007. Assistant auditor-general Gordon Kega, who was in charge of the investigation, recommended that all signi-ficant payments to individuals should be checked and individuals prosecuted for defrauding the state. The 11-page report to Brown, a copy of which was made available to The National, said 87 individuals were paid a total of K4,610,147 “for unknown services”. Neither Brown nor Northern administration officials could be contacted to comment on the report. The auditor-general’s office concluded that no proper financi

National Reports Senior public servants in the province and their cronies, in collusion with the banks, helped themselves to about K5 million of the total K18 million relief funds between 2007 and 2009, the auditor-general said in the report to the manager of the state-established Oro Restoration Authority, Sinai Brown. As a result, there were no major capital works and significant maintenance to restore services and infrastructure damaged by the cyclone in November 2007. Assistant auditor-general Gordon Kega, who was in charge of the investigation, recommended that all signi-ficant payments to individuals should be checked and individuals prosecuted for defrauding the state. The 11-page report to Brown, a copy of which was made available to The National, said 87 individuals were paid a total of K4,610,147 “for unknown services”. Neither Brown nor Northern administration officials could be contacted to comment on the report. The auditor-general’s office concluded that no proper financi