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In the last couple of weeks Mr. Namah has been on the news for a variety of reasons, I have observed his meteoric rise to the top of the PNG Party ranks after leaving the NA camp, while he was with the NA Party he was never a major voice in the government ranks, his operated in stealth, here was this cunning operative who used the system to his gain, he ran on NA’s platforms in 2007 and won the Vanimo Green River electorate, an electorate that is marred with controversies. If you need to know what is happening to his electorate you need to see this film titled Bikpela Bagarap. Google it if you have to, despite all the money and lavishness promised by the operators of the logging firms there, there is a deep rift between those that are benefiting and the others who have been purposely ignored. After Namah made the ominous move with Puka Temu to join ranks with Mekere Morauta many in the Somare camp saw that the tides were turning for the old regime, it was not long before this guy who w

In the last couple of weeks Mr. Namah has been on the news for a variety of reasons, I have observed his meteoric rise to the top of the PNG Party ranks after leaving the NA camp, while he was with the NA Party he was never a major voice in the government ranks, his operated in stealth, here was this cunning operative who used the system to his gain, he ran on NA’s platforms in 2007 and won the Vanimo Green River electorate, an electorate that is marred with controversies. If you need to know what is happening to his electorate you need to see this film titled Bikpela Bagarap. Google it if you have to, despite all the money and lavishness promised by the operators of the logging firms there, there is a deep rift between those that are benefiting and the others who have been purposely ignored. After Namah made the ominous move with Puka Temu to join ranks with Mekere Morauta many in the Somare camp saw that the tides were turning for the old regime, it was not long before th

PAPUA New Guinea's Council of Churches dedicated last Sunday to prayer for the country's constitutional crisis to be overcome. Many think prayer provides the most realistic chance for a solution. Nothing else seems to work. Inexorably, the team led by Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has gained the upper hand, as seems inevitable in a Westminster-style democracy - since he controls the parliament, which has passed a suite of measures legitimising his government. Michael Somare, despite being PNG's founding father, is struggling to gain traction - relying on the courts since the failure of the desultory military coup on his behalf last month. But the loose ends that remain are so numerous, and the fracture in PNG's body politic is so extensive, as to threaten the success of the national election due mid-year that has long looked to be the only ultimate answer. On Monday, the Supreme Court meets yet again in an attempt to prioritise the 11

PAPUA New Guinea's Council of Churches dedicated last Sunday to prayer for the country's constitutional crisis to be overcome. Many think prayer provides the most realistic chance for a solution. Nothing else seems to work. Inexorably, the team led by Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has gained the upper hand, as seems inevitable in a Westminster-style democracy - since he controls the parliament, which has passed a suite of measures legitimising his government. Michael Somare, despite being PNG's founding father, is struggling to gain traction - relying on the courts since the failure of the desultory military coup on his behalf last month. But the loose ends that remain are so numerous, and the fracture in PNG's body politic is so extensive, as to threaten the success of the national election due mid-year that has long looked to be the only ultimate answer. On Monday, the Supreme Court meets yet again in an attempt to prioritise

GARY JUFFA - From PNG Exposed Blog In the last few months, Papua New Guinea has experienced a spate of disasters in rapid succession. It is as if the elements of nature have spewed out their anger and Papua New Guinea experienced disasters from the air, land and now water. Yet it is not nature that cost the nation the lives of Papua New Guineas sons and daughters so much as human errors in judgment by those who had the opportunity to prevent the terrible events from occurring – humans. In these instances, human beings employed in foreign owned companies operating in PNG. Yet even these agents are not to be blamed so much as the persons who direct and urge them to act and employ them and do so for profit. 
These are of course the owners of the company, those who reap the profits of the business activities that generate the revenues for their bank accounts. But even they are only partially to blame. For there are those who sit above these rampant profiteers in so far as res

Papua New Guinea's supreme court has set out a way to deal with the quagmire of cases stemming from the country's ongoing political conflict. There are a dozen cases clogging the courts stemming from the conflict between Peter O'Neill and Sir Michael Somare over PNG's prime ministership. Acting chief justice Gibbs Salika says the primary issue is determining who is the legitimate leader. He said the best way to do it is to deal with two Supreme Court references filed by the O'Neill camp. They ask for the court's opinions on constitutional questions such as whether the court can interfere with parliament's appointment of a prime minister. Justice Salika said all other cases have been stayed pending the outcome of the references. Sir Michael was ousted as prime minister and replaced by Mr O'Neill in August after his seat was declared vacant while he received medical treatment in Singapore. The supreme court subsequently declared him the rightful

Papua New Guinea's supreme court has set out a way to deal with the quagmire of cases stemming from the country's ongoing political conflict. There are a dozen cases clogging the courts stemming from the conflict between Peter O'Neill and Sir Michael Somare over PNG's prime ministership. Acting chief justice Gibbs Salika says the primary issue is determining who is the legitimate leader. He said the best way to do it is to deal with two Supreme Court references filed by the O'Neill camp. They ask for the court's opinions on constitutional questions such as whether the court can interfere with parliament's appointment of a prime minister. Justice Salika said all other cases have been stayed pending the outcome of the references. Sir Michael was ousted as prime minister and replaced by Mr O'Neill in August after his seat was declared vacant while he received medical treatment in Singapore. The supreme court subsequently declared him