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By LUCAS KIAP When it comes to infrastructure development and providing basic government services in the country - is where billions and billions of Kina of public funds are pumped into every year. Year-in-year-out, every government, when comes into office makes headlines across the country when announcing big budgets to tackle the infrastructure woes (and basic government services) in the country, raising the hope of the people because they want it badly. Despite billions of kina have been spent every year on infrastructure alone to deliver basic government services to the people, people still complain about the lack of such vital services and how they struggle to survive without it. Sad tales of such struggles are reported everyday by the media. It has been and it seems, the cries and struggles of the people desperately wanting basic government services will never stop as most of the existing infrastructures have deteriorated and run down due to decades of lack of funding, mi

A JUDICIAL inquiry revealing a $300 million scam perpetrated by top officials and leading lawyers has provoked a sensation in Papua New Guinea, with Prime Minister Peter O’Neill warning that he may sack everyone in the Finance Department. He is seeking the support of the Australian Federal Police and of Interpol in a “high-level investigation” of the corruption, with initial funding of $1 million. He suspended Finance secretary Steven Gibson and his deputy Jacob Yafai yesterday. The 811-page report of the inquiry – which was conducted for the parliament by PNG judges Maurice Sheehan, a New Zealander, and Cathy Davani, and by prominent businessman Don Manoa – was injuncted three years ago by the law firm of solicitor Paul Paraka, who is named throughout the report. The report reveals a large number of bogus compensation claims made by and settled within the senior bureaucracy. And fresh information reveals that massive corrupt payments have continued, despite the comprehensive findi

A JUDICIAL inquiry revealing a $300 million scam perpetrated by top officials and leading lawyers has provoked a sensation in Papua New Guinea, with Prime Minister Peter O’Neill warning that he may sack everyone in the Finance Department. He is seeking the support of the Australian Federal Police and of Interpol in a “high-level investigation” of the corruption, with initial funding of $1 million. He suspended Finance secretary Steven Gibson and his deputy Jacob Yafai yesterday. The 811-page report of the inquiry – which was conducted for the parliament by PNG judges Maurice Sheehan, a New Zealander, and Cathy Davani, and by prominent businessman Don Manoa – was injuncted three years ago by the law firm of solicitor Paul Paraka, who is named throughout the report. The report reveals a large number of bogus compensation claims made by and settled within the senior bureaucracy. And fresh information reveals that massive corrupt payments have continued, despite the comp

By LUCAS KIAP                                                                                                     If someone is asked in year 2050 to go back in time to study the history of PNG, I believe the year 2013 will be the starting point in shaping the future of the country for better or for worse. After so many shocking news crimpling the country over the last couple of months, yet we have another one yesterday (23 rd May 2013) but weird one too. This time, according to the mainstream media, the numbers of Parliamentarians in the Opposition had been reduced to only six MPs by migration of MPs joining the Government ranks - portraying the Opposition as unworthy and meaningless in our democracy government system. One may question the loyalty of these MPs. If one cannot be loyal, then we may as well question the integrity, credibility and reputation of these MPs, as well as their underlying reasons of switching. It is very obvious that our MPs talk like men but they act like

By LUCAS KIAP                                                                                                     If someone is asked in year 2050 to go back in time to study the history of PNG, I believe the year 2013 will be the starting point in shaping the future of the country for better or for worse. After so many shocking news crimpling the country over the last couple of months, yet we have another one yesterday (23 rd May 2013) but weird one too. This time, according to the mainstream media, the numbers of Parliamentarians in the Opposition had been reduced to only six MPs by migration of MPs joining the Government ranks - portraying the Opposition as unworthy and meaningless in our democracy government system. One may question the loyalty of these MPs. If one cannot be loyal, then we may as well question the integrity, credibility and reputation of these MPs, as well as their underlying reasons of switching. It is very obvious that our MPs talk like men

By: CONCERNED STUDENT It is good to see so many Unitech students visiting this website to learn the hidden truths about Unitech saga 2013.   The responses show that a free spirit for change still exists even though the SRC is now trying to distract our attention with other activities.  Let them try.  The main focus must always remain on WHERE IS ALBERT SCHRAM?  Until that question is finally settled. Big thankyou goes to those who kept asking questions on this blogs until our SRC President finally had to leave his hiding place and answer.  If not for you stubborn questioners,  Livingston Hosea would still be expanding his spy group.   Keep watching and report any wrongdoing here on this site SO THAT HE CANNOT COVER UP EVIL ACTIONS. On that day when the SRC president stopped the boycott, all students learnt that Livingston Hosea will listen to us and nod his head in agreement, then turn around and do whatever he was planning to do no matter what the majority thinks.   What he says and w

By: CONCERNED STUDENT It is good to see so many Unitech students visiting this website to learn the hidden truths about Unitech saga 2013.   The responses show that a free spirit for change still exists even though the SRC is now trying to distract our attention with other activities.  Let them try.  The main focus must always remain on WHERE IS ALBERT SCHRAM?  Until that question is finally settled. Big thankyou goes to those who kept asking questions on this blogs until our SRC President finally had to leave his hiding place and answer.  If not for you stubborn questioners,  Livingston Hosea would still be expanding his spy group.   Keep watching and report any wrongdoing here on this site SO THAT HE CANNOT COVER UP EVIL ACTIONS. On that day when the SRC president stopped the boycott, all students learnt that Livingston Hosea will listen to us and nod his head in agreement, then turn around and do whatever he was planning to do no matter what the majority thinks.   What he says and w

By PAUL PARAKA Certain allegations were made against Paraka Lawyers recently on the floor of Parliament, and this is our response to those allegations. PROFILE FACT 1.    Paraka Lawyers is at present the largest National Law Firm in the country with twenty-two (22) Branch Offices in all the Provinces. Its Head Office is in down town Port Moresby at the Mogoru Moto Building. FACT 2.    The total number of workers employed by the Legal Firm is close to one thousand (1000), comprising both Lawyers and support staff spread right throughout the length and breadth of this nation.  Our employees strive to serve our people in each Province who cannot afford the luxury of travelling to Port Moresby every time to seek legal services. FACT 3.    The Law Firm employs an exclusively local national workforce.  Every year, a large number of trainee Lawyers who have graduated out of the Legal Training Institute numbering between 25-40 are recruited and placed around the country, replacing well-trained