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By NATHAN DINGU While there are many Papua New Guineans rising right to the top of the corporate ladder in many institutions in PNG, I believe we are still more or less spectators especially in decision making in Papua New Guinea! First and foremost, while privatization has been seen as the ‘way’ forward – how many of the ‘privatized’ firms will see a Papua New Guinean as the top manager i.e. Chief Executive Officer within the next five years. We have many industries today in PNG and top firms in almost all sectors including mining, oil and gas, banking etc – how many of these have a training program that has an emphasis on training Papua New Guineans to lead these industries in this new millennium? Indeed, we certainly do need certain expertise where Papua New Guineans cannot do certain themselves. However do we need it all of the time? Certainly not and I believe you will agree with me especially when there are so many students of so many schools attaining the highest level including

By NATHAN DINGU While there are many Papua New Guineans rising right to the top of the corporate ladder in many institutions in PNG, I believe we are still more or less spectators especially in decision making in Papua New Guinea! First and foremost, while privatization has been seen as the ‘way’ forward – how many of the ‘privatized’ firms will see a Papua New Guinean as the top manager i.e. Chief Executive Officer within the next five years. We have many industries today in PNG and top firms in almost all sectors including mining, oil and gas, banking etc – how many of these have a training program that has an emphasis on training Papua New Guineans to lead these industries in this new millennium? Indeed, we certainly do need certain expertise where Papua New Guineans cannot do certain themselves. However do we need it all of the time? Certainly not and I believe you will agree with me especially when there are so many students of so many schools attaining the highest level includi

By GOVERNOR GARY JUFFA MP I see on the distant horizon, a wave approaching Papua New Guinea. It is a wave of the future and it is surely breaking on the shores of Papua New Guinea. It carries with it a great hope and inevitability where the People will be governed by the People, plotting a path to their own destiny, having full control of the steering wheel and the rudder even. The Politician and political creature will be historic anecdotes, fossils even, urban legends, mere things of the past. Here a new world will emerge whereby modern technology will provide guidance and surveillance, monitoring, enforcement, administration and punishment...there will be transparency and retribution will be swift, resources and assets carefully managed by consensus. Guided by a population of educated and intelligent citizens, assisted by groups and individuals who have vast global networks and influence, locally, regionally and internationally. Papua New Guinea will not only see the light at the en

This is the $600,000 home Petroleum Minister William Duma owns in the exclusive Cairns suburb of Redlynch. No. 38 Flindersia is described by real estate agents as: “a spectacular residence [with] 5 bedrooms and features a parents retreat upstairs with en-suite and balcony”. “Downstairs there are a further four bedrooms, separate living and media rooms and modern kitchen with stone benchtops and dishwasher. Open plan living areas open out on to two patios”. “The property is fully air-conditioned and and comes with solar hot water system”. The property is registered in the name of Willam Marra Duma: MRA CEO KEPAS WALI's 800K Cairns Property Kepis Wali is not just another public servant struggling to survive in the high cost environment of Papua New Guinea’s capital city, Port Moresby. No, Kepis is not struggling at all. As well as being able to afford life in the capital, Kepis Wali has enough money left over for a K850,000 kina house in the Cairns suburb of Bentley Park. It seems ha

This is the $600,000 home Petroleum Minister William Duma owns in the exclusive Cairns suburb of Redlynch. No. 38 Flindersia is described by real estate agents as: “a spectacular residence [with] 5 bedrooms and features a parents retreat upstairs with en-suite and balcony”. “Downstairs there are a further four bedrooms, separate living and media rooms and modern kitchen with stone benchtops and dishwasher. Open plan living areas open out on to two patios”. “The property is fully air-conditioned and and comes with solar hot water system”. The property is registered in the name of Willam Marra Duma: MRA CEO KEPAS WALI's 800K Cairns Property Kepis Wali is not just another public servant struggling to survive in the high cost environment of Papua New Guinea’s capital city, Port Moresby. No, Kepis is not struggling at all. As well as being able to afford life in the capital, Kepis Wali has enough money left over for a K850,000 kina house in the Cairns s

Papua New Guinea's treasurer has handed down an $A6.8 billion budget for 2013, plunging the developing nation more than $A1 billion into the red in a bid to improve the country's failing infrastructure. Don Polye on Tuesday announced increased spending for PNG's health, education, infrastructure and law and order sectors, as well as a plan to shift control of some state monies away from the nation's capital, Port Moresby, to provincial governments. PNG's economy is expected to grow by four per cent over the next year, substantially slower than the 9.2 per cent growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012. The deficit announced on Tuesday amounts to 7.2 per cent of PNG's GDP and is projected to decline to 5.9 per cent in 2014, before falling sharply to 1.6 per cent in 2017. Mr Polye said the next budget surplus was expected in 2017. Inflation, which dipped to four per cent year on year in 2012, is expected to climb to eight per cent in 2013, just

Papua New Guinea's treasurer has handed down an $A6.8 billion budget for 2013, plunging the developing nation more than $A1 billion into the red in a bid to improve the country's failing infrastructure. Don Polye on Tuesday announced increased spending for PNG's health, education, infrastructure and law and order sectors, as well as a plan to shift control of some state monies away from the nation's capital, Port Moresby, to provincial governments. PNG's economy is expected to grow by four per cent over the next year, substantially slower than the 9.2 per cent growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012. The deficit announced on Tuesday amounts to 7.2 per cent of PNG's GDP and is projected to decline to 5.9 per cent in 2014, before falling sharply to 1.6 per cent in 2017. Mr Polye said the next budget surplus was expected in 2017. Inflation, which dipped to four per cent year on year in 2012, is expected to climb to eight per cent in 2013,