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By K.S. Punduari Major Restructure – Only One Person will own special Share and VETO POWER over the 7.5 million people’s Resources and their State Owned Enterprises . Petromin, IPBC and other State Owned Enterprises to be merged and all powers will be transferred to 3 Kumul Holdings and Only One Person will have SPECIAL SHARE and VETO POWER to control it. The article on Sunday Chronicle about the major restructure can not be read unseen. Although the idea about the major restructure seems appealing, it may result in totalitarian control now or in the long run. And also peoples’ powers and resources concentrated into a single body to manipulate may easily give raise to a dictatorship.  It may seem like merging a large system will make it easy for only few people to control it but it could also result in inefficiency and unproductively. Who knows, the result might be a single point of failure. I know that Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has good motives behind this new restructure but we mu

By K.S. Punduari Major Restructure – Only One Person will own special Share and VETO POWER over the 7.5 million people’s Resources and their State Owned Enterprises . Petromin, IPBC and other State Owned Enterprises to be merged and all powers will be transferred to 3 Kumul Holdings and Only One Person will have SPECIAL SHARE and VETO POWER to control it. The article on Sunday Chronicle about the major restructure can not be read unseen. Although the idea about the major restructure seems appealing, it may result in totalitarian control now or in the long run. And also peoples’ powers and resources concentrated into a single body to manipulate may easily give raise to a dictatorship.  It may seem like merging a large system will make it easy for only few people to control it but it could also result in inefficiency and unproductively. Who knows, the result might be a single point of failure. I know that Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has good motives behind this new r

By GEORGE There's 100k PNG citizens online. 80k citizens on Facebook. Let's double that number and estimate that there's 200k PNG people online. Compare 200k of them, to few million plus voters. Why would politicians be bothered to listen to the petition of 200k voices, claiming to be representing the few million voters? When clearly they're not. The voters have spoken by electing crooks and thieves into parliment again. They have voted to take it up their behind for another 5 years. I really doubt the politicians will be bothered to listen to this online petition when it clearly does not represent the wishes of the majority of png voters. The problem is not with our leaders, Australians, Chinese traders/triads or Interpol fugitives. The problem is within. It's ourselves. The wantok and bigman culture is killing our country. Because of wantok culture, we repeatedly choose our wantoks as leaders regardless of how bad they are for the country. Because of bigman cultur

By GEORGE There's 100k PNG citizens online. 80k citizens on Facebook. Let's double that number and estimate that there's 200k PNG people online. Compare 200k of them, to few million plus voters. Why would politicians be bothered to listen to the petition of 200k voices, claiming to be representing the few million voters? When clearly they're not. The voters have spoken by electing crooks and thieves into parliment again. They have voted to take it up their behind for another 5 years. I really doubt the politicians will be bothered to listen to this online petition when it clearly does not represent the wishes of the majority of png voters. The problem is not with our leaders, Australians, Chinese traders/triads or Interpol fugitives. The problem is within. It's ourselves. The wantok and bigman culture is killing our country. Because of wantok culture, we repeatedly choose our wantoks as leaders regardless of how bad they are for the country. Be

By NATIONALIST FIRST His legal exile officially ended almost two weeks ago.   Nothing in the newspapers or television mention any extension.    Dr Albert Schram should be back in the VC seat at unitech. But he’s not. Early on Judge Sevua told the Post Courier it would be an injustice for Schram not to be allowed to come back and testify in his defence in the investigation he heads.  The Sevua investigation is nearly done taking evidence.    Schram tried to come back.  The government deported him again.   He never testified in his defence according to those working in the investigation. Students at unitech want their graduation diplomas and degree certificates to be signed by a full VC not some acting VC.   Students want a real diploma or certificate, not an acting one. Schram cannot sign because he is in involuntary exile. Unitech graduation is this Friday 12 April.  Peter ONeill will deliver a typical politician speech.    That is another term for many words with little content.   Of

By NATIONALIST FIRST His legal exile officially ended almost two weeks ago.   Nothing in the newspapers or television mention any extension.    Dr Albert Schram should be back in the VC seat at unitech. But he’s not. Early on Judge Sevua told the Post Courier it would be an injustice for Schram not to be allowed to come back and testify in his defence in the investigation he heads.  The Sevua investigation is nearly done taking evidence.    Schram tried to come back.  The government deported him again.   He never testified in his defence according to those working in the investigation. Students at unitech want their graduation diplomas and degree certificates to be signed by a full VC not some acting VC.   Students want a real diploma or certificate, not an acting one. Schram cannot sign because he is in involuntary exile. Unitech graduation is this Friday 12 April.  Peter ONeill will deliver a typical politician speech.    That is another term for many

By PNG EXPERT Papua New Guinea will be without its founding political party, the PANGU Pati as it heads into its 40th year of independence in a couple of years’ time. And for the next four and a half years, it will not have a voice on the floor. Its house is in tatters, split apart by two disputing administration executives The once dominant Pangu unfortunately lost its only sitting member of parliament and Member for Angoram Ludwig Shulze a couple of weeks back due to illness. Except for the late Shulze, it did not fare well in the national elections since the 90’s following the fall-out with the Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, its founding leader who took Papua New Guinea to independence in 1975. The grand chief is still around but is aligned with the National Alliance, the only political party to have ruled for a solid nine years until the political impasse of 2011. In the 80’s under Sir Michael, it almost brought in the numbers for a one-party rule. In the 90’s to mid-2000, it was