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POMAT MANUAI, CEO Border Development Authority It is tough surviving on a government wage in Port Moresby these days! Makes you wonder how public servants like Pomat Manuai (Border Development Authority) can find K750,000 for a flashy apartment in Cairns! When he is not sweating it out in Port Moresby Pomat and his family take refuge in their “large 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom luxury apartments with large patios”. The apartment is handily position in a “great location very close to Cairns CBD, Hospital, Tafe and Cairns Central Shopping Centre Kepis Wali, ex-MD of the Mineral Resource Authority, owns this K850,000 home in Cairns 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 handing out Mining Leas

POMAT MANUAI, CEO Border Development Authority It is tough surviving on a government wage in Port Moresby these days! Makes you wonder how public servants like Pomat Manuai (Border Development Authority) can find K750,000 for a flashy apartment in Cairns! When he is not sweating it out in Port Moresby Pomat and his family take refuge in their “large 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom luxury apartments with large patios”. The apartment is handily position in a “great location very close to Cairns CBD, Hospital, Tafe and Cairns Central Shopping Centre Kepis Wali, ex-MD of the Mineral Resource Authority, owns this K850,000 home in Cairns 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 se

By CHRISTOPHER PAPIALI I read with interest the profound views expressed by Dr. Charles Yala of National Research Institute. Land use, mobilization and converting land into viable economic corridors is a way forward for this country. Land to most respects is our umbilical cord, the very nerve centre that connects to everything from culture, family, clan and business and therefore it transcends at the highest peak of our societal living. PNG unlike the rest of the world continue to face daunting challenges relating to land. Our efforts to maximizing the land use potential was overwhelmingly discussed almost two decades ago when the previous government regimes discussed ways to grab hold of all customary/traditional land and transferring to the state. I am led to the efforts made by Loani Henao Lawyers some years ago, when this law firm was engaged by the government at that time to draft the policy surrounding the Land Mobilization Act and for obvious reasons there was widespread opposit

By CHRISTOPHER PAPIALI I read with interest the profound views expressed by Dr. Charles Yala of National Research Institute. Land use, mobilization and converting land into viable economic corridors is a way forward for this country. Land to most respects is our umbilical cord, the very nerve centre that connects to everything from culture, family, clan and business and therefore it transcends at the highest peak of our societal living. PNG unlike the rest of the world continue to face daunting challenges relating to land. Our efforts to maximizing the land use potential was overwhelmingly discussed almost two decades ago when the previous government regimes discussed ways to grab hold of all customary/traditional land and transferring to the state. I am led to the efforts made by Loani Henao Lawyers some years ago, when this law firm was engaged by the government at that time to draft the policy surrounding the Land Mobilization Act and for obvious reasons there was widesprea

WE pose this question because according to Ian Jinga, the Director-General of the Office of Security Coordination and Assessment which comes under the Department of the Prime Minister and National Executive Council, Papua New Guinea’s national security is stable and manageable. This was Mr Jinga’s conclusion when he delivered an update on PNG’s national security situation to the 10th meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Sub-Committee on Security in Port Moresby last Thursday, November 21. Present at the meeting was the Director General of the MSG Secretariat and Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu delegates and a representative of the FLNKS or Kanak Liberation Front of New Caledonia. Mr Jinga told his colleagues about PNG’s political impasse of 2011/2012 and the national election and how the country came out on top of these two critical events. He said: “… One of our main problems is prudent management of our limited resources to address many of our developmental challenges wh