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By Reuben Michael Once again (it’s happened before), Papua New Guineans have let citizens of other countries stand up for the rights of all of us.   Sometimes citizens of other countries become concerned enough about our situation in PNG dealing with corruption and being taken advantage of by foreigners that they stand up and protest in their own countries on our behalf. There might be a Papua New Guinean or two in the photo above, which was taken in Malaysia recently, but its mostly Malaysians protesting to support Papua New Guineans.  The full story is on PNG Exposed and also ACT NOW PNG.  They are protesting against a Malaysian company that is trying to land grab in Oro Province, pretending to bring oil palm (which the people of Collingwood Bay don’t want, seeing the social ills and migrant problems it has brought to other parts of Oro Province).   The company’s name is Kuala Lumpur Kepong (KLK). Malaysia is hardly known for protecting the people’s rights to free speech o

Open Letter To Esteemed Radio Personality Roger Hau’ofa:    I Beg You To Upload an Audio Copy of Thursday Morning TalkBack Call By MP David Arore   Now is the time to shine the light of day on the darkness of corruption and incompetence.  Do we dare hope that good people will finally stand up in the name of God, truth, and decency and take action to expose the evilness of our corrupt leaders? By David Lantos Kuiri Dear Mr Roger Hau’ofa, I write this request to you praying and hoping that you or someone at the radio station will stand up and do the right thing to help our country rid ourselves of corrupt leaders.  This is a critical time when things seem to be spinning out of control. My request is in reference to last Thursday when Oro MP David Arore called in and abused you and Oro MP Gary Juffa on national radio talkback programme. Although your show is popular, relatively few Papua New Guineans overall heard the conversation.   Many of us are not allowed to listen t

The news is out, and even MP Gore can’t deny it.  The very Minister who wears the modest meri blouses sees nothing wrong in spending huge amounts of public money putting up LLG presidents in her rural district at the grandest hotel Moresby can provide.   Is this not a form of legal bribery?  Is this not a gross example of the “legal corruption” that an article in PNG blogs talked about just last week and which seems to have spread throughout the government?  Does this Grand Payment not fit the “I don’t have to play by the rules” attitude that Minister Gore displayed to the nation a few months back when she wouldn’t turn off her mobile phone in the airplane taking off from Popondetta?    Being that the hotel accommodation receipts are now available on the record and presumably Gary Juffa would present the proof if the story is denied, Mrs Gore was trapped.  Still, she did as any good politician will attempt.   She tried to verbally wiggle and squirm around the truth by not refu

By NRI Contributor Papua New Guinea is one of the newer emerging gas exporting nations.   Current reserves are currently estimated by the United Stated Central Intelligence Agency at 226.5 billion cu metres, which gives PNG a world ranking in gas reserves of 43 out of 207 countries and territories.    EXXONMOBIL DEVLOPMENT OF PNG’S LNG PROJECT:    ExxonMobil has been a joint venture partner in the development of PNG’s oil resources since the 1990’s in which Chevron was the principal stakeholder.   ExxonMobil became the operator in the country’s first natural gas development project, sourcing gas from the Hides, Angore, and Juha gas fields, also obtaining gas from the existing Kutubu, Agogo, Moran and Gobe oil fields.  The LNG gas project is a joint venture partnership, with ExxonMobil the principal stakeholder and PNG stakeholders holding less than 20% of the total share.   ExxonMobil (operator) (United States multinational) 33.2% Oil Search (PNG registered, with main o

Papa Graun Those who go often to the excellent PNG Exposed blog are very clear that Prime Minister Peter O’Neill is a fraud and a liar with respect to the SABLs, the fraud initially aided and abetted by Tiffany Nonggor, O’Neill’s lawyer (no longer?) who ran to O’Neill’s defence, and causing much vomiting in the NGO community when she aligned herself with the NGOs over this issue.   Tiffany, what do you say now about Peter O’Neill and this supposed cancellation of the SABLs? To our knowledges, none of the SABLs have stopped they are still cutting down trees and shipping them out of pNG as fast as possible.  Why hasn’t SABL law been cancelled as promised? Why haven’t the police been sent to the SABLs that were called fraudulent by the commission of inquiry?  Why is Peter O’Neill, the Grand Fraudster of Papua New Guinea, now completely silent about SABL and where did Tiffany Nonggor run away to?  Certainly not to the NGOs who don’t want to see her fat face ever again. This is

You thieves – the curse of the criminal is upon you YOU will all die And before your time too. And when you do, your relatives and friends will be fighting over your stolen wealth even before the worms have had a chance at your flesh. Your last fleeting thoughts will not be of the wealth you have amassed or of lovers and good times, but the relatives whose love you have spurned. You will yearn, not for the warm flesh of a lover, but to hold the hand of a child who has long ago forgotten you are the parent. That is the tragedy you do not seem to realise awaits you. You have this mistaken thought that you will live far longer than you actually will or even that more money will improve or increase your lifespan. The opposite is true. I talk about you, daylight thieves, those who are bleeding this country dry, hell-bent on filling your own pockets while mothers and children go to bed hungry and fathers struggle from dawn to dusk every day of their lives and never see K100 in any