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I would  like to commend Prime Minister Peter O’Neill for bringing back the revised Enhanced Cooperation Programme (ECP). When it was first introduced, the ECP got off very well until that ultra-nationalist, Luther Wenge, sought legal interpretation of brought an end to the bilateral agreement. I urge the government to move it one step higher – placing ECP officers in all government departments, both at the national and provincial levels, to monitor bureaucratic practices of public servants to ensure decisions and actions are legal. The ECP may be our only hope to eradicate corruption that is eating away the government structure at all levels. There will obviously be critics who will say it is neo-colonialism reinvented or against the post-indepen­dence principles of localisation of government positions. Some will argue that ECP flies in the face of national intellect and competence – not to mention rhetoric and clichés like threat to national pride and loss of belief and confidence in

I would  like to commend Prime Minister Peter O’Neill for bringing back the revised Enhanced Cooperation Programme (ECP). When it was first introduced, the ECP got off very well until that ultra-nationalist, Luther Wenge, sought legal interpretation of brought an end to the bilateral agreement. I urge the government to move it one step higher – placing ECP officers in all government departments, both at the national and provincial levels, to monitor bureaucratic practices of public servants to ensure decisions and actions are legal. The ECP may be our only hope to eradicate corruption that is eating away the government structure at all levels. There will obviously be critics who will say it is neo-colonialism reinvented or against the post-indepen­dence principles of localisation of government positions. Some will argue that ECP flies in the face of national intellect and competence – not to mention rhetoric and clichés like threat to national pride and loss of belief and confidenc

The national government’s aim to cleanse the entire government machinery of corrupt practises has gained momentum, following the setting up of the Investigative Taskforce Sweep team. Recently, the National Executive Council met and resolved to advise the head of State to make various changes to several heads of Missions overseas as well as top bureaucrats of State agencies in the country. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said Cabinet considered the changes as necessary as some of the officials have been implicated in allegations of misconduct in office and will be investigated while others terms in office have expired. One such suspension is that of the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Gaming Control Board, Simon Sanangke who has been replaced by Eddie Mike Jondi as the acting CEO. Another officer who has been suspended is Meck Kuk, the Director of the National Museum & Art Gallery. Joseph Nobetau, the Acting Chief Migration Officer’s appointment was revoked and he has be

The national government’s aim to cleanse the entire government machinery of corrupt practises has gained momentum, following the setting up of the Investigative Taskforce Sweep team. Recently, the National Executive Council met and resolved to advise the head of State to make various changes to several heads of Missions overseas as well as top bureaucrats of State agencies in the country. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said Cabinet considered the changes as necessary as some of the officials have been implicated in allegations of misconduct in office and will be investigated while others terms in office have expired. One such suspension is that of the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Gaming Control Board, Simon Sanangke who has been replaced by Eddie Mike Jondi as the acting CEO. Another officer who has been suspended is Meck Kuk, the Director of the National Museum & Art Gallery. Joseph Nobetau, the Acting Chief Migration Officer’s appointment was revoked and he ha

It seems to me that NBPOL is highly acclaimed by the World Economic Forum from purely economic point of view. I stand to be corrected but if I am not mistaken, a certain law guarding people's rights to their land and virgin forests in PNG, prohibits Oil Palm Companies to clear virgin forests to plant oil palm. Obviously NBPOL is guilty of this directive. Hectors and hectors of virgin forests had been cleared and is being cleared to plant Oil Palm in West New Britain in SILOVUTI, Kove area. I see people's livelihood destroyed in terms of their life's sustenance. Huge parts of the virgin forest cleared used to be where people do their gardening, hunting, and collecting of different food stuff and materials for building their local traditional houses and homes. Their natural rhythm of life based on their association with this virgin forest is nolonger there. This disrupts so much of their normal sustainable living and there is already discontment,dissensence, anger and upheava

It seems to me that NBPOL is highly acclaimed by the World Economic Forum from purely economic point of view. I stand to be corrected but if I am not mistaken, a certain law guarding people's rights to their land and virgin forests in PNG, prohibits Oil Palm Companies to clear virgin forests to plant oil palm. Obviously NBPOL is guilty of this directive. Hectors and hectors of virgin forests had been cleared and is being cleared to plant Oil Palm in West New Britain in SILOVUTI, Kove area. I see people's livelihood destroyed in terms of their life's sustenance. Huge parts of the virgin forest cleared used to be where people do their gardening, hunting, and collecting of different food stuff and materials for building their local traditional houses and homes. Their natural rhythm of life based on their association with this virgin forest is nolonger there. This disrupts so much of their normal sustainable living and there is already discontment,dissensence, anger and uph

What is happening in Libya, and the rest of the Muslim world is about imposing the removing the tenets of Islam & Autocracy and substituting it with the best vehicle of extraction (by the West) called democracy. Democracy itself is no answer to all the problems of the world. If you look deep into the abyss of democracy, you will hear the wailing of the poor and the hungry, the desperate cries of the dispossessed and the oppressed. It is not the will of the people as such expressed. It is the rule by a few, or in the case of PNG, Parliament and Cabinet have become rubberstamps for the Prime Minister. So it is in other countries, where under the guize of democracy, the World Bank, ADB, IMF and other UN Agencies have created poverty by sinking the hooks of debt into resource rich countries to enable them to dictate their terms of extraction. This has left many nations in Africa in crisis and civil war. In PNG, we continue to have the mindset that someone else is going to come out of

What is happening in Libya, and the rest of the Muslim world is about imposing the removing the tenets of Islam & Autocracy and substituting it with the best vehicle of extraction (by the West) called democracy. Democracy itself is no answer to all the problems of the world. If you look deep into the abyss of democracy, you will hear the wailing of the poor and the hungry, the desperate cries of the dispossessed and the oppressed. It is not the will of the people as such expressed. It is the rule by a few, or in the case of PNG, Parliament and Cabinet have become rubberstamps for the Prime Minister. So it is in other countries, where under the guize of democracy, the World Bank, ADB, IMF and other UN Agencies have created poverty by sinking the hooks of debt into resource rich countries to enable them to dictate their terms of extraction. This has left many nations in Africa in crisis and civil war. In PNG, we continue to have the mindset that someone else is going to come out

An insider within Tutumang Development Limited today spilled the beans on how he was used and manipulated by the company to 'sweet-talk' landowners into signing the fraudulent land deals involving the SABL on New Hanover. Councilor of Ward 17 in the Lavongai Local Level Government where the SABL are located, Mr. Kamsal Maraleu told the Commission of Inquiry that he was a major player in what transpired amongst the directors of Tutumang. He says the company used him because of his status in the community as he can easily influence the people. Mr. Maraleu is the elder brother of Miskus Maraleu, company lawyer of Tutumang Development Limited, and nephew to the company's chairman Mr. Peddy Yanis. Mr. Maraleu says, Tutumang is a Malaysian company, that has been logging under various company names in Kaut, Central New Ireland and Namatanai. After logging these areas, the company came up with a plan to go to New Hanover because of the island's vast forest resource. But realizi