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PFF Rarotonga, COOK ISLANDS- The Pacific Freedom Forum condemns the brutal attack by uniformed Police officers on Papua New Guinea journalist Mark Kayok on the evening of Saturday 21 April, in Port Moresby. Kayok, a Police rounds reporter with the National Broadcasting Corporation, has reportedly sustained a broken nose amongst his injuries and is currently recovering at home. The incident was reported in the morning bulletin on NBC radio on Monday 23 April . Kayok had been on assignment on Saturday evening before meeting up with a friend who was wearing his Police uniform. Returning home, they were tailed by a mobile Police Unit who stopped them at a service station in 5-mile and began assaulting the Police officer. When Kayok tried to stop the attack, the assailants asked him who he was. He identified himself as an NBC journalist and was also beaten up by the group of Police officers who told him media were not reporting positively on them.

PFF Rarotonga, COOK ISLANDS- The Pacific Freedom Forum condemns the brutal attack by uniformed Police officers on Papua New Guinea journalist Mark Kayok on the evening of Saturday 21 April, in Port Moresby. Kayok, a Police rounds reporter with the National Broadcasting Corporation, has reportedly sustained a broken nose amongst his injuries and is currently recovering at home. The incident was reported in the morning bulletin on NBC radio on Monday 23 April . Kayok had been on assignment on Saturday evening before meeting up with a friend who was wearing his Police uniform. Returning home, they were tailed by a mobile Police Unit who stopped them at a service station in 5-mile and began assaulting the Police officer. When Kayok tried to stop the attack, the assailants asked him who he was. He identified himself as an NBC journalist and was also beaten up by the group of Police officers who told him media were not reporting positively on t

Ha! I see the Aussie intelligence Community aparatus is well and truely alive and swinging around  here to cover Julia Gillard's arse swinging in the wind! Well I make no apologies for touching on a very sensitive nerve! Its not about blaming someone for our own mistakes, and mind you we have made a meal of it so far and I would be one of  the first ones to own up.  However, to seek to down play this as a simple blame shifting exercise is to admit ones own ignorance of the Doctrine of (International) Recognition and its well established body of  rules that govern and determine dejure or defacto governments, and ultimately the question of legitimacy. To bury our heads in the sand and claim we unilaterally determine political outcomes in PNG is most absurd and pure garbage granted Australia's very active involvement in every facet of our public and private lives today. Australia has over 14 intelligence desk officers and an army of other human intel- agents and sour

Ha! I see the Aussie intelligence Community aparatus is well and truely alive and swinging around  here to cover Julia Gillard's arse swinging in the wind! Well I make no apologies for touching on a very sensitive nerve! Its not about blaming someone for our own mistakes, and mind you we have made a meal of it so far and I would be one of  the first ones to own up.  However, to seek to down play this as a simple blame shifting exercise is to admit ones own ignorance of the Doctrine of (International) Recognition and its well established body of  rules that govern and determine dejure or defacto governments, and ultimately the question of legitimacy. To bury our heads in the sand and claim we unilaterally determine political outcomes in PNG is most absurd and pure garbage granted Australia's very active involvement in every facet of our public and private lives today. Australia has over 14 intelligence desk officers and an army of other human intel- agents

Unions in Papua New Guinea say they are about to organise industrial action and a disruption to services in the nation's capital to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. Businesses in Port Moresby are being told to expect disruptions to water and electricity services, while public servants are being urged not to show up for work as part of the protest against the O'Neill government's desire to delay the 2012 elections by six months. "There may be disruptions to communications, which can affect banking," said John Paska, general secretary of the Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress, which covers 70,000 workers. "There will be certain levels of disruption to services not necessarily tomorrow (Tuesday) alone, but until the government repeals the laws that are draconian, are undermining the constitution," he told AAP. Mr Paska said the unions will organise a small protest outside parliament on Tuesday to hand a petition to the governme

Unions in Papua New Guinea say they are about to organise industrial action and a disruption to services in the nation's capital to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. Businesses in Port Moresby are being told to expect disruptions to water and electricity services, while public servants are being urged not to show up for work as part of the protest against the O'Neill government's desire to delay the 2012 elections by six months. "There may be disruptions to communications, which can affect banking," said John Paska, general secretary of the Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress, which covers 70,000 workers. "There will be certain levels of disruption to services not necessarily tomorrow (Tuesday) alone, but until the government repeals the laws that are draconian, are undermining the constitution," he told AAP. Mr Paska said the unions will organise a small protest outside parliament on Tuesday to hand a petition to the governme

To- Papua New Guinea, and whoever else around the world reading this site, What we are witnessing in the Constitutional crisis, the smashing of our Constitution and our Judiciary, the rise of this illegitimate government led by Peter ONeill and Belden Namah is the result of: 1. Serious intelligence failure by the Australian Government, and lack of proper analysis of events and consequences,  which culminated in Julia Gillard and her government's recognition of Peter ONeill and Belden Namah government. That recognition by Gillard has now given birth to so much illegitimacy, democracy has been flushed down the toilet. PNG today represents one of Australia's most embarrassing foreign policy blunders! 2. Gillard has to ask who in the PNG High Commission and in Canberra gave her the brief to recognize ONeill- while the Supreme Court of PNG was sitting on the question of legitimacy? Heads must roll within the Australian top bureaucracy! 3. The United States, and to a lesser extent Eu

To- Papua New Guinea, and whoever else around the world reading this site, What we are witnessing in the Constitutional crisis, the smashing of our Constitution and our Judiciary, the rise of this illegitimate government led by Peter ONeill and Belden Namah is the result of: 1. Serious intelligence failure by the Australian Government, and lack of proper analysis of events and consequences,  which culminated in Julia Gillard and her government's recognition of Peter ONeill and Belden Namah government. That recognition by Gillard has now given birth to so much illegitimacy, democracy has been flushed down the toilet. PNG today represents one of Australia's most embarrassing foreign policy blunders! 2. Gillard has to ask who in the PNG High Commission and in Canberra gave her the brief to recognize ONeill- while the Supreme Court of PNG was sitting on the question of legitimacy? Heads must roll within the Australian top bureaucracy! 3. The United States, and to a lesser extent Eu

THE standard joke about the PNG jail system is that it has an “open-door policy”. Of course the joke is grounded in fact – the frightening number of jail breaks we have every year. It is as if you can walk in and walk out of jail as you please. Now we have a confidential report into the system which reveals a far more frightening facet of jails in our country. There is an escape almost daily from one of our jails throughout the country. It is so regular single person escapes are not reported. We pray this report, by a National Security Advisory Committee-sanctioned investigation team, is exaggerated because it would be frightening otherwise. More frightening is the assertion in the report that jails are now performing a reversed role to what they are intended to do. They have become recruiting and training ground for criminals. People who go in for minor offences or even the hundreds who spend long periods on remand have been “recruited” by hardened criminals doing time and turned into

THE standard joke about the PNG jail system is that it has an “open-door policy”. Of course the joke is grounded in fact – the frightening number of jail breaks we have every year. It is as if you can walk in and walk out of jail as you please. Now we have a confidential report into the system which reveals a far more frightening facet of jails in our country. There is an escape almost daily from one of our jails throughout the country. It is so regular single person escapes are not reported. We pray this report, by a National Security Advisory Committee-sanctioned investigation team, is exaggerated because it would be frightening otherwise. More frightening is the assertion in the report that jails are now performing a reversed role to what they are intended to do. They have become recruiting and training ground for criminals. People who go in for minor offences or even the hundreds who spend long periods on remand have been “recruited” by hardened criminals doing time and turned

Mr Speaker, when the O’Neill-Namah Government was elected on the floor of Parliament last year, we faced a tremendous task of reconstruction and reform after 10 years of waste, neglect and lost opportunity. I have spoken previously about the areas where this waste and neglect, and indeed corruption, was most prevalent and caused the most damage – in the State Owned Enterprises supervised by the Independent Public Business Corporation under the stewardship of the suspended Member for Angoram and his outrigger Mr Glen Blake who during that time claimed to be (and probably still is) the Somare family financial adviser. Since we were elected in August last year, much of the focus of my efforts, as Minister for State Enterprises, has been on finding out how big a mess the State Owned Enterprises are in; and where they have lost money, how that money was lost, where the money went to, and to try to get as much of that lost money back as we can. Mr Speaker, this is public money

Mr Speaker, when the O’Neill-Namah Government was elected on the floor of Parliament last year, we faced a tremendous task of reconstruction and reform after 10 years of waste, neglect and lost opportunity. I have spoken previously about the areas where this waste and neglect, and indeed corruption, was most prevalent and caused the most damage – in the State Owned Enterprises supervised by the Independent Public Business Corporation under the stewardship of the suspended Member for Angoram and his outrigger Mr Glen Blake who during that time claimed to be (and probably still is) the Somare family financial adviser. Since we were elected in August last year, much of the focus of my efforts, as Minister for State Enterprises, has been on finding out how big a mess the State Owned Enterprises are in; and where they have lost money, how that money was lost, where the money went to, and to try to get as much of that lost money back as we can. Mr Speaker, this is publ

In what can only be described as an added jab of malicious autocratic intent into the organs of democracy sustaining PNG, and a further parry in the ongoing political war between PNG’s executive and judiciary, the O’Namah government has once again, incredulously, taken one step further down a path of questionable return . In addition to the Judicial Conduct Act 2012 , O’Namah yesterday initiated and today progressed debate on a further piece of retrospective legislation titled the Supreme Court (Amendment) Bill 2012. The new law effectively restricts the powers of the Supreme Court by preventing the court from halting laws until after constitutional challenges are heard, and is deemed to have come into operation on December 9, 2011. Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah has acknowledged that the new law is a response by the majority O’Namah Government to the Supreme Court’s staying of the controversial Judicial Conduct Act 2012 which provided a constitutional change to the act

In what can only be described as an added jab of malicious autocratic intent into the organs of democracy sustaining PNG, and a further parry in the ongoing political war between PNG’s executive and judiciary, the O’Namah government has once again, incredulously, taken one step further down a path of questionable return . In addition to the Judicial Conduct Act 2012 , O’Namah yesterday initiated and today progressed debate on a further piece of retrospective legislation titled the Supreme Court (Amendment) Bill 2012. The new law effectively restricts the powers of the Supreme Court by preventing the court from halting laws until after constitutional challenges are heard, and is deemed to have come into operation on December 9, 2011. Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah has acknowledged that the new law is a response by the majority O’Namah Government to the Supreme Court’s staying of the controversial Judicial Conduct Act 2012 which provided a constitutional change to

There is growing evidence that Papua New Guinea's government may move to sack the electoral commissioner, removing a steadfast obstacle to parliament's vote to suspend the June election by six months. Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said on Friday the government appointment's committee was investigating a discrepancy in Andrew Trawen's reappointment as head of the electoral commission in 2010 by the government of Sir Michael Somare. He told parliament he had received legal advice that Mr Trawen's term as commissioner had been extended beyond the mandatory retirement age of 55 set for certain PNG civil servants without a compelling reason. "That reasoning was not provided at that meeting," Mr O'Neill said. "In fact, the meeting took less than three minutes, at least that's what one of the members who was there deliberated to us after that meeting yesterday with my good friend, the leader of the opposition and the other member

There is growing evidence that Papua New Guinea's government may move to sack the electoral commissioner, removing a steadfast obstacle to parliament's vote to suspend the June election by six months. Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said on Friday the government appointment's committee was investigating a discrepancy in Andrew Trawen's reappointment as head of the electoral commission in 2010 by the government of Sir Michael Somare. He told parliament he had received legal advice that Mr Trawen's term as commissioner had been extended beyond the mandatory retirement age of 55 set for certain PNG civil servants without a compelling reason. "That reasoning was not provided at that meeting," Mr O'Neill said. "In fact, the meeting took less than three minutes, at least that's what one of the members who was there deliberated to us after that meeting yesterday with my good friend, the leader of the opposition and the oth

FROM SHARP TALK, FACEBOOK PAGE Francis Wayambo it looks like PNG has become a dictatorial country now, but we pngns' are not realising it. the way onama government finding every excuse to be still in power and suppress or set up laws to suppress every opposition. One way to kill a frog is to put it live in a pot with water and slowly heat it. The frog will adjust to the heat and without realising the water will boil and kill it. This is my frog analogy of we pngns' just adjusting to this govn. God save png 18 hours ago via Mobile · Like · 1 Tiffany Twivey-Nonggorr Just rubbish guys - the law that applies to the PC retirement age is DIFFERENT to the law which provides for the EC 's retirement age which is the Organic Law on National and LLG elections. The EC's appt was unconstit and not acc to the organic law. Should the govt just ignore that and pretend his appt is OK. God help PNG if that is the case. 17 hours ago via Mobile · Like · 1 David JR M