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By LUCAS KIAP My dear leaders in Papua New Guinea,  The country some of you helped created in September 16th 1975 just recently celebrated 38 years of nationhood. Looking back, as a nation we have come a long way through both bad and good times when others thought we would never made this far or for worse become a failed state. A country of more than seven million people with diverse cultures, ethnic groups and some more than eight hundred language groups living scattered across in some of the remotest parts of the world, it’s quite amazing how you have pulled them all together. I congratulate you all for this significant achievement.  For me celebrating this important event was painful, though I had only lived less than 38 years, half of which spent growing up in a village at the foot of Mt. Hagen in WHP.  For the last five years, life in the city - Port Moresby was very difficult for me. I don’t know how you all have been managing yours but for me, I had to squeeze my family into a s

By LUCAS KIAP My dear leaders in Papua New Guinea,  The country some of you helped created in September 16th 1975 just recently celebrated 38 years of nationhood. Looking back, as a nation we have come a long way through both bad and good times when others thought we would never made this far or for worse become a failed state. A country of more than seven million people with diverse cultures, ethnic groups and some more than eight hundred language groups living scattered across in some of the remotest parts of the world, it’s quite amazing how you have pulled them all together. I congratulate you all for this significant achievement.  For me celebrating this important event was painful, though I had only lived less than 38 years, half of which spent growing up in a village at the foot of Mt. Hagen in WHP.  For the last five years, life in the city - Port Moresby was very difficult for me. I don’t know how you all have been managing yours but for me, I had to squeeze my family into

By REX DAGI The 63.4% shares in the OK Tedi Mine, PNGSDP and its Assets and the future generations fund of USD 1.5billion belongs to me and my affected LANDOWNERS of OK Tedi & Fly River FULL STOP. Let me explain why I say this. The "Out of Court Settlement Agreement 1996" reached between Mr Rex Dagi and BHP, govern by the Victorian Supreme Court of Victoria that forms the bases of BHPs "Exit Plan" in admittance of Guilt over Environmental Destruction in OK Tedi & Fly River system when we settled under these terms as follows: 1. K40 million be paid as compensation to the lower OK Tedi River people of 15 villages as compensation but the principal amount be invested offshore. And initial of K2.5million be released in 1997 and shall continue for the life of the m ine from the interest. 2. K150 million for general compensation to the Affected people of the OK Tedi & Fly river. The principal amount be invested offshore and approximately K20million from the in

By REX DAGI The 63.4% shares in the OK Tedi Mine, PNGSDP and its Assets and the future generations fund of USD 1.5billion belongs to me and my affected LANDOWNERS of OK Tedi & Fly River FULL STOP. Let me explain why I say this. The "Out of Court Settlement Agreement 1996" reached between Mr Rex Dagi and BHP, govern by the Victorian Supreme Court of Victoria that forms the bases of BHPs "Exit Plan" in admittance of Guilt over Environmental Destruction in OK Tedi & Fly River system when we settled under these terms as follows: 1. K40 million be paid as compensation to the lower OK Tedi River people of 15 villages as compensation but the principal amount be invested offshore. And initial of K2.5million be released in 1997 and shall continue for the life of the m ine from the interest. 2. K150 million for general compensation to the Affected people of the OK Tedi & Fly river. The principal amount be invested offshore and approximately K20million from t

By SAM KOIM The current Shutdown in the United States of America begs my interests to share my observations in light of the recent announcement by our Prime Minister for the change of our system of Government. The powerful nation on earth (USA) has gone through its 2nd day of shutdown after the Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to approve funding for President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reforms –the Obamacare. President Obama has had similar challenges when he required the House’ approval to intervene in the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Government in the very recent past. Coming up, a more serious piece of legislation that needs both the Senate and the House approval is the raising of the debt ceiling which is approaching very near (17th Oct). The fear that is looming in the State’s now is that Congress might be so caught up with the shut down and the same tensions might be drawn into the debt ceiling hence potentially affect the US economy.

By SAM KOIM The current Shutdown in the United States of America begs my interests to share my observations in light of the recent announcement by our Prime Minister for the change of our system of Government. The powerful nation on earth (USA) has gone through its 2nd day of shutdown after the Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to approve funding for President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reforms –the Obamacare. President Obama has had similar challenges when he required the House’ approval to intervene in the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Government in the very recent past. Coming up, a more serious piece of legislation that needs both the Senate and the House approval is the raising of the debt ceiling which is approaching very near (17th Oct). The fear that is looming in the State’s now is that Congress might be so caught up with the shut down and the same tensions might be drawn into the debt ceiling hence potentially affect the US econo

By REX DAGI The OK Tedi mine belongs to the "Environmentally" affected landowners of the OK Tedi and Fly rivers. It was their court proceedings against BHP headed by their "TRUE" leader Mr. Rex Dagi who boldly stood up against all odds since the 5th of May1994, when he filed the Supreme Court Proceedings in the Victorian Supreme Court of Australia. Then in 1995 during Julius Chan regime, PNG government passed a legislation called "Foreign Court Proceedings Act" which is current law as it is. In the event that any land owners in PNG taking legal actions in any foreign courts is a criminal act. He never gave in until an out of court settlement agreement with BHP under certain terms in that agreement between the parties were reached in 1996 governed by the Victorian Supreme Court. In the year 2000, Mr Dagi filed the proceedings against BHP again for breaching certain clauses and terms agreed by both parties in the out of court settlement agreement 1996. BHP t