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by Gabriel Ramoi An Essay on West Papua Dedicated to all that have died in the cause of a Free and Independent West Papua. Part One : O'Neill & the Force of Morale Persuasion The earth shattering reversal of a 40 year policy of Denial by PNG on the plight of West Papua announced by Prime Minister Peter Oneill on Tuesday the 5THrd of February 2015 will come to be judged by history as the most important step taken by a sovereign state toward propelling West Papua towards Political Independence from Indonesia. It follow on the heels of that lone brave voice made by the Prime Minister of Vanuatu to the United nations in 2013 to put West Papua back on list of UN Trust territories and the Decolonization Committee of the United nations. The Statement by the Prime Minister is a bold move and one that that has not be made lightly. It turns PNGs Foreign Policy on its head and will no doubt rattle Australia and will keep Academics busy in years to come in analyzing th

by CASPER DAMIEN The reawakening of the ancient belief in and practice of sorcery and witchcraft is one of the post-independent development issues. Although sorcery has been recently (2014) outlawed in Parliament, it has not been effective and the information of the repelling of the sorcery act has not been really disseminated and descended to the bulk of the population in the rural areas. Sorcery now becomes a very frightening thing in our community and individual life. Almost everyone relate misfortunes and deaths to sorcery and there is now a tendency to points fingers at someone or accuse others for sorcery. This trend is currently bad in PNG and it can also hinder development and progress in general.   Development as we have seen so far refers not only to the economic or material progress of our people but also the spiritual, cultural, social and political aspects. Papua New Guinea is one of the unique countries in the world that has some of the best development

By CONCERNED PARENT Those who have studied overseas know in an instant how bad our PNG schools are, all the way to university level.    An article in PNG Blogs some time back ( http://www.pngblogs.com/2014/07/how-bad-are-papua-new-guineas.html ) revealed it in black and white rankings.     Our best PNG university, Divine Word, is worse than the best university in the failed state of Somalia.    Every time politicians speak at commencements they promise schools something that almost always is never delivered.    Parents in rural areas cry for new classrooms but say nothing about teachers to teach the children, or books that allow children to learn more than their teachers.   This year we have already seen a boycott by UNRE (former Vudal College) students over mismanagement at that institution.    UNRE is one of the worst ranked universities in the world.   Now we have a student strike at Polytech in Lae.   In all cases, the core issue is bad education.    The source o

David Cannings. His Human Rights application is due to be heard on 28 May 2015. Doctor Theo Yasause, former Climate Change boss and the former Chief of Staff to former Prime Minister Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, has applied to Human Rights Track for the enforcement of his human and constitutional rights. Dr Yasause appeared in Court this week for a Directional Hearing heard by Justice On Friday the Post Courier reported ‘Yasause raises human rights issue’ whilst Radio New Zealand reported ‘Jailed PNG official files complaint’, however both media outlets did not report that Dr Yasause has applied to Human Rights Track for the enforcement of his human and constitutional rights. Human Rights Track, which is headed by 'Track manager' Justice David Cannings, is a recent development in the PNG Judicial system. “An interesting feature of our (PNG) Human Rights rules which we are informed is not found anywhere else in the world is the provisions in the rule whi

By CASPER DAMIEN   “Don’t fall into the temptation of this world, this world is evil. God loves you, repent and be baptized again in the name of Jesus Christ and receive him in your life as your personal savior and you will be saved because the End of the World is near.”    The story of the End of the World or the Second Coming of Jesus is very interesting and at the same time it’s frightening. This topic is very much part of Christianity. All Christians believe the Second Coming of Christ and this world will come to end. It’s recorded that Christianity as a world religion has 2.18 billion Christians or followers of Jesus Christ in the world today. While the total population of the world is about 7.5 billion people. Besides Christianity as a world religion, other major religions of the world including Islam has 1.62 billion followers known as Muslims, Hinduism about 1 billion followers, Buddhism about 500 million followers and Judaism has about 15 million followers in the

 PNGBLOGS Yes, it's back to the nonsensical purchase of the Fokker 70, built 20 years ago by the bankrupt and long departed Fokker airline maker. All Fokker planes in Air Niugini's fleet are ancient: between 20-25 years old. Air Niugini still uses them because it's another money-losing SOE that through creative auditing and delayed financial reports, covers up its reality: It has no financial ability to buy new airplanes and is slowly heading down the financial toilet. In response, Peter O'Neill names failed businessman Sir Frederick Rieher the Chairman! You may remember the name Reiher. A few years back he was given K40 million to build 200 houses near Gerehu. He built 2 or 3 and that was it ( http://www.pngblogs.com/…/k40m-housing-project-contract-sho… ). We don't know for certain that he returned the money (naturally, he promised to. Even Paul Tientsen promises to return the money he stole), but we do know that he continued as a PM office