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By MURPHY KWUANE Quite ironical to the much publicised hype of massive financial prosperity, unprecedented economic growth, overwhelming LNG benefits, and consequently highly improved standards of living, Hela has literally shifted in the opposite direction and plummeted back into the dark ages of its forefathers. There is unmitigated blanket chaos everywhere right across the depth and breadth of Hela from the Hela Opena Puluwape and Mariliwa ranges of Mt Tundaka and Mt Pagapua in the East all the way across the peripheries of Muller Rangers to the fringes of Lake Kopiago and Duna plains; and from the footholds of Mt Bosavi all the way across the Mt Haliago and Mt Gigira midranges of the great Gigira Laitebo custodians ,the Tuguyawinis; following the mighty Tagali all the way up to the Alu Pai lands of Mt Kare, Mt Tere and Mt Dini. Unwavering warriors armed with high powered military rifles are the order of the day roaming around the villages and communities unhindered, at

HELA province will soon have a full-time electricity supply following an agreement between PNG Power Ltd and Barrick Gold Corporation. PPL chairman Larry Andagali and Barrick PNG/Australia Executive General Manager Greg Walker resolved at a special meeting this week for the Porgera gold miner to supply 4 megawatts of electricity to PPL to reticulate to the people of Hela. Andagali said despite the people of Hela have been living in darkness for the past 23 years despite the commissioning of the Hides Gas to Electricity project in November 1991. “I am so pleased that I am in a position to finally make the Hela people’s dream a reality by having access to 24 hours electricity powered from their very own prophetic Gigira Laitebo gas,” he said. He added that it was not a mistake that Barrick had waited for many years to make available 4 megawatt of power. “It is only fulfilling the Gigira Laitebo prophecy,” Andagali said. He said according to the prophecy, the Gigira Laitep

HOT AIR?  BY SAM BASIL MP To the citizens of Papua New Guinea (PNG), before the 2015 Budget is announced, you would’ve been following several statements I released about the 2013 Budget, the 2014 Budget and its negative impact to PNG’s current state of economy. My commentary has provided visible evidence, further supported by intellects and reputable citizens in their long-standing positions within each industry, on the financial mismanagement of the economy by the current O’Neill-led government. The statements I delivered, on O’Neill’s running of the economy, was only to ensure that the Opposition gave alternatives to ensure we get best economic outcomes for our country and all citizens. This has fallen on deaf ears and eyes as PNG further moves to an economy on the brink of “meltdown” as the next budget will be far higher than the last two Budget deficits with no avenue to repay; the O’Neill-led government is to blame for this situation we, as a country, are facing financially

By BRYAN KRAMER In recent times it has been interesting to read article after article by General Secretary of PNG Trade Union John Paska defending the allegations against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. His recent statement in the press Mr Paska said "let the due process takes its course, that the public had also been misled to believe that an arrest of the PM if executed constituted guilt on the Prime Minister’s part. "This is not the case, the much talked about arrest is an arrest which merely satisfies standard police procedures" he said. This view by Mr. Paska is misconceived after the Supreme Court ruled a warrant of arrest is equivalent to a court order. So it seems it also satisfied the procedures of the Court confirming a prima facie case (sufficient evidence) against the Prime Minister to presume he may be guilty of the offence. What about respecting the rule of law and letting the arrest takes its course" Such pubic statements by a General Secr

By DAVID ARORE MP Ijivitari MP, David Arore, has publicly defamed national court judge, Justice Ambeng Kandakasi on Facebook accusing him of corruption, partiality and an unhealthy alliance with Oro Governor, Gary Juffa prior to yesterday’s court decision. In multiple posts on the social network, David Arore, used his personal account to post photographs that purport to show a meeting between Justice Kandakasi and Governor Juffa prior to yesterday’s decision which awarded a stay order in favor of Juffa. On the initial post yesterday, the ijiviari MP wrote: “…Photo’s of judge Kandakasi and Gary Juffa before hearing of Oro Prov. Vote of no confidence case…Where is justice?” Arore also questioned Justice Kandakasi’s credibility as a judge and accused him of allowing his personal relationship to influence his decision. In another one of the posts Arore wrote: “…Arore demands new judge in Oro vote of no confidence case after Justice Kandakasi is seen here wining and dining with Gary Juffa

PNGEXPOSED   The National Housing Corporation and the National Housing Estate Limited are two of the most corrupt institutions in the nation. For years they have treated the national housing estate as the private property of senior executives. Public servants from around the country have been made homeless at the behest of NHC head, John Dege, so land and property can be sold off to foreign speculators. So where do public servants go, and where do the nation’s booming number of urban working families go? Never fear, the NHC and NHEL will now be working with the private sector to build low cost housing. In June this year the Prime Minister announced that NHC/NHEL would facilitate the construction of 40,000 houses at Duran farm outside Port Moresby, through offshore financing to the tune of K1.3 billion. Worried yet? The contractor awarded the job do oversee this mammoth development was Niule No 16, a shelf company owned by PNG lawyer Henry Hennry and Australian businessma

Please spread these social media articles more widely!!!! Corruption grows in PNG because not enough Papua New Guineans actually know what’s going on. Our newspapers won’t print controversial stories because they don’t want to be taken to court by obsolete defamation laws that protect the guilty as much as the innocent. On top of that we have poor penetration into our population of any form of news media. Only about 15% of our population lives in urban areas! Literacy rates are still appalling. It’s easy to ignore all this whenever we’re on social media and see lots of comments posted to a PNG Blogs article or hundreds of ‘likes’. But only a small percentage of our population has money enough to access social media regularly enough to read the articles about corruption. Social media is NOT educating enough PNGans to create the pressure necessary for reform and not enough pressure to frighten the corrupt and thats a fact. YOU can help change all this. Personally commit yourself to do