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  By OHE Insider Recent, Previous Idiots as Ministers of HERST It’s hard to forget the stifled laughter that echoed off the walls at OHE whenever former boss and HERST Minister David Arore made yet another idiotic pronouncement on behalf of higher education.   There was no greater testament to how low higher education could sink than seeing the don in the gutter, perpetually foolish David Arore.  Last February, our hopes were briefly lifted when Peter O’Neill replaced the dishonourable Arore with Delilah Gore, who quickly made us understand how important she thought she was.  At least Minister Gore wasn’t corrupt like Arore, who was always on the take.  Better an airhead than a criminal, as we say in PNG. Keeping Our Universities Awful, Keeping the Population Uneducated Peter O’Neill’s decisions up to now on who to appoint as HERST (higher education, research, science and technology) Minister fit the same strategy we can see the PM pursuing as he secretly tries to con

WELL DONE CHAMPION DIKA TOUA AND STEVEN KARI... PNG SOLUTE YOU.. Steven Kari and Dika Toua kissing PNG Soil upon arrival from the Commonwealth Games with Gold Medals.

POST COURIER Former Police Commissioner Sir Tom Kulunga has withdrawn a court case he filed to challenge the NEC decision that terminated him as Police Commissioner. Sir Toami said in a statement yesterday that he had to withdraw the proceedings after careful thought on the continuity of the proceedings. "My reason for instituting the proceedings was not based on personal interest to get back to the office of police commissioner," he said. "I have served my time and reached my retirement age. I had less time left before my contract was up. It is no secret that I was removed and replaced as the Commissioner of Police after I made the decision to invite the Prime Minister for a police formal record of interview in relation to the alleged fraudulent payments to Paul Paraka lawyers." He said he had instituted the proceedings because he feared that the image and integrity, as well as the command structure of the Royal PNG Constabulary he had toiled hard to

By BRYAN KRAMMER The National Court in Madang yesterday (6/8/14) ordered a recount of the Madang Open By-Election. The Court upheld Petitioner Peter Yama's election petition disputing the election of Minister of Petroleum and Member for Madang Nixon Duban. Yama disputed the Duban's election on several grounds of errors and omissions (irregularities) by PNG Electoral Commission in conducting the polling and counting of the By-Election. The Trial Judge Sakora sustained the following grounds contested in Yama's petition. 1) Lack of security during polling - the By-Election was conducted without police presence. 2) Two ballot-boxes were destroyed outside the police station. 3) The Returning officer and his Assistant Returning Officer defied written instructions by the Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen not to participate in the counting after the preliminary count. 4) Returning Officer refusal to include 6,116 ballot-papers discovered by Yama at his mother'

Three national parliamentarians have been taken to court by the husband of a woman they all allegedly had sex with. Their case went before the Waigani Family Court last Friday and has been adjourned to this Friday for submission. The information in the Court file alleges that the first MP offered the woman K500 and the second MP K800  before having sex with her on separate occasions. The Third MP also allegedly had sex with her but on the understanding that he would marry her and reimburse K100,000.00 to her husband, which the husband paid as bride price. Last week the lawyers representing the the three MPs asked the presiding Magistrate to dismiss the entire proceedings  describing it as frivolous and an abuse of Court Process. The three MPs names have been  leaked by Court Officials and obtained by PNGBlogs and they are; Telefomin MP and 1st term MP, Solan Mirisim Kokopo MP and also a first term MP, Ereman Tobaining and Komo Margarima MP Francis Potape .

By SCOTT WAIDE Four days since  his passing, I've finally mustered the courage  to write about this great man who taught me a lot.  These words, however,  will be forever inadequate for he was greater than the descriptions in this blog post.  There is an emptiness for many of us who came after him.  It is the loss not of a journalist but of an older brother and a humble leader in his own right.    So let this piece be a celebration of  his life.  For being human  is all we can be in this life.    We can never be perfect and flawless.  We can only be as honest as we can be and as honorable  as our human will permits us to be.  It is impossible not to make mistakes.  For  the absence of mistakes rarely means  perfection. It means  stagnation in the  journey of our lives.   Somebody somewhere has had to make mistakes in order for some level of  perfection to occur.  Somebody somewhere has had to make mistakes in order to us to learn from  the lessons.    Jerr

By R.S.MULAN It beggers real belief that people who are in a position to make a real difference in the lives of the scabbied, malnourished, underprivileged, unfortunate, destitute, outcastes, poverty stricken etc are instead establishing Charity organisations in the pretext of doing the same thing they are otherwise mandated to do. Their goodwill seems superficial and a sustained hypocrisy in the land of the ignorants. Nobody really knows their real intentions. O’Neill Foundation, Ipatas Foundation, Marape Foundation,,,,,, you name the rest. Aren’t these people some private citizens extending their goodwill to help humanity? I know Bill Clinton started the Clinton Foundation after he left politics. I know Bill Gates Foundation as a work of a rich philanthropist. But where do we place our mandated leaders who during the tenure of their term establish such foundations? I hope it’s seriously not for some tax evasive schemes. I hope it’s not for a public image campaign,,,,,act o

Three national parliamentarians have been taken to court by the husband of a woman they all allegedly had sex with. Their case went before the Waigani Family Court last Friday and has been adjourned to this Friday for submission. The information in the Court file alleges that the first MP offered the woman K500 and the second MP K800  before having sex with her on separate occasions. The Third MP also allegedly had sex with her but on the understanding that he would marry her and reimburse K100,000.00 to her husband, which the husband paid as bride price. Last week the lawyers representing the the three MPs asked the presiding Magistrate to dismiss the entire proceedings  describing it as frivolous and an abuse of Court Process. The three MPs names have been  leaked by Court Officials and obtained by PNGBlogs and they are; Telefomin MP and 1st term MP, Solan Mirisim Kokopo MP and also a first term MP, Ereman Tobaining and  Komo Margarima MP Francis Potape .

By Justice for UPNG Student Chancellor Pokawin, Vice Chancellor Mellam, SRC Vice Presidet Aheng and other SRC officers of the University of Papua New Guinea: There is Growing Student Anger about your handling of the Bobby Yupi scandal. We put these questions put before all of you to address or ignore- 1: Why so much silence by UPNG administration about the violence carried out by disgraced SRC president Bobby Yupi and his few supporters during  what was otherwise a peaceful forum? 2: Why hasn’t Bobby Yupi been arrested and charged for organising violence on main campus during the past forum? 3: Why has UPNG administration and SRC allowed Yupi to remain as SRC president? Thousands of students witnessed the primitive violent behaviour of Mr Bobby Yupi. All main facts are undisputed by vast majority of those in witness with eyewitness testimony and photographic evidence. Bobby Yupi committed crimes under PNG law. This is not like breaking a university rule so that it