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by LUCAS KELLY KOM My dear fellow Papua New Guineans, the so called Dr Susan Merrell has in effect said that the Judiciary of the Sovereign State of Papua New Guinea in not infallible, That amounts to sedition and she must be arrested and charged immediately when she is in the country. The Judiciary in PNG today is the last bastion of democracy and can never be questioned by aliens. The JUDGES RULING IS FINAL therefore the discipline forces will act accordingly to administer justice in so far as the Independent Sovereign State of Papua New Guinea is concerned. PNG has adopted English Common Law from its colonial past. Laws are made to be amended as and when the evolution of the society in question sees fit under its sovereignty therefore Susan Merrell can’t tell Papua New Guineans that their ruling judge has erred. The Sovereign State of Papua New Guinea is not strictly obligated to follow the provisions of English Common Law,  We have parliamentarians and legislators to amend

by SAM KOIM, DevPolicy Blog The allegations reported in the Australian media of an Australian mining company bribing high ranking Nauru politicians is a real test for Australia. The stakes are high. Nauru hosts one of the asylum detention centres under Australia’s “Pacific Solution” policy. Nauru, together with Manus in Papua New Guinea, has relieved Australia of the influx of boat people to Australia and the Australian Government needs the ongoing political support of the host nations to continue the operation of the detention centres. Thanks must go to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) who, without fear or favour, investigated this case, which could potentially harm Australia’s relationship with Nauru. From the media reports, it seems that the AFP is at an advanced stage of the investigation and arrests might be made soon. Australia is a member of the OECD Working Group on Bribery and a party to the key international conventions concerned with combating foreig

AUSTRALIAN THINK TANK WARNING CONFIRMS OPPOSITION’S PREDICTION, FEARS AND WARNING ON PNG’S ECONOMY The PNG Government’s revenue is going to be billions of kina lower, given the drop in global energy and oil prices. This is from a think tank, a research fellow with the Australian Policy Centre at the Australian National University. Mathew Dornan says this would create major budgetary crisis for the PNG government. This means certain key priority areas in the 2015 budget will be cut meaning no funds will be going to those areas. Mr Dornan said a “certain decision” by the PNG government had inflamed the crisis. Mr Dornan did not specify “certain commercial decision” but it’s obvious a number of commercial decisions by the O’Neill government happening despite expert warnings and caution from credible institutions. Among them is the controversial UBS K3 Billion Loan deal which pushed the country’s debt level high to an unsustainable level. The prediction by the think tank proves what the

by NELSON TENDEN Theo Zurenuoc and our Prime Minister never seemed to love each other until recently. From this side, Peter O'Neill was never strongly religious. In fact, he was incensed when Zurenuoc did his "evil carvings" desecration of Haus Parliament as the news reported at the time. From Theo's side, our Wild-Eyed Zealot didn't like O'Neill's personal disinterest in Christianity and was even less happy when he finally figured out that O'Neill often manipulates Christians to get their support (PO's 'ban the pokies' affair being the most famous). Yet, now, Zurenuoc and O'Neill seem madly in love. How did that happen? My friends, it all boils down to patting each other on the bum while helping each other out. That's politics in a nutshell. It was clear what Zurenuoc is getting out of the deal. Somehow it appears that O'Neill has found a way to bankroll Zurenuoc and his crazy extremist Christian allies as they march up th

Can PNG build on from this unprecedented development in rugby league with PNG Hunters or even explore the QLD's Intrust Cup prospects? by BRIAN FOLOCK   Queensland's Intrust Super Cup turns out a BIG HIT in PNG after two of its teams, PNG's own Hunters and Souths Magpies took to the capital - Port Moresby for the first time after the introduction of the PNG team to the 2nd Tier Queensland Rugby League in Australia. The match was a trial match to test the newly renovated Sir John Guise Stadium (renamed BSP Stadium) which will host most of the sporting activities of 2015 Pacific Games including the Opening Ceremony. Intrust Super Cup (ISC) is a second-tier rugby league of Queensland, Australia. Papua New Guinea has a team, the PNG Hunters competing in the league and has been hosting home games in Kokopo, East New Britain since its inception. Kokopo was selected as the Hunters' home ground when the country's old and dilapidated major sporting infrastructures inc

by JAMES KAMBO Sports and Pacific Games Minister Justin Tkatchenko is under the spotlight again this week after a rape victim has come out publicly to confirm legal proceedings have taken place to claim for damages done to him by the Minister while he was employed at the NCDC Botanical Gardens between 1998 - 2000. The victim from Wapenmanda district in the Enga Province has confirmed to PNGBlogs he has been under duress and he's burdened with feelings of worthlessness, at one point even contemplating suicide and self harm after he was sexually abused by a man who is currently the face of PNG and the Pacific Games. His intention is to bring to light what happened 16 years ago, The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons is a father of 4 kids is now in his forties. When queried by PNGBlogs on the long delay in seeking justice he said he could not hide this anymore after his family and tribe asked him to speak out because on his Anorectal diseases or Anal Diso

by LUCAS KIAP This is a story of a man who once owned a cup that produces water for drinking. It was a mystery cup that the man owned - he had no idea where the cup came from and how the water gets in there at the first place and continues to refill itself whenever he drinks. He only knows how to drink. Every time when he becomes thirsty he would go to his cup - there he would find water to drink. When he drinks he would not finish - there would still be some left in the cup. After he drinks, the cup would always refill itself. One day he became curious and wanted to discover the mystery behind the cup. He decided to drink all the water in the cup and pour out the remaining so that he could witness the whole process of the cup refilling itself. What he did not realize was that once the cup was empty, it would not refill itself again. The cup was subjected to natural laws, laws that the poor man has no control over them - laws that he didn't understand them - laws that were no

PNGEXPOSED Minister has lied in Parliament over his involvement in a family company awarded a K27 million contract in dubious circumstances Sports Minister Justin Tkatchenko has a long history of unanswered fraud allegations . Now he is trying to bat away accusations of corruption over a massive K27 million contract awarded to his family company to keep the flowers growing in Port Moresby. But not only has the Minister failed to answer the substantive allegations against him he has misled Parliament and lied to the people. Tkatchenko [see story below] does not deny that the company he founded, Kitoro No.33 , which trades under the name PNG Gardener, is the beneficiary of the K27 million contract. Nor has he denied that the bid submitted by Kitoro No.33 was the highest among seven competing tenders received by the National Capital District. The bid was “unquantified and staggering” according to eminent lawyer and MP Alan Marat and contained costings that were “grossly

by MARK J PULAPE NOT THE FIRST TIME OUR ECONOMY HAS BEEN GRAVELY MISMANAGED BY PRIME MINISTERS Young people have no idea how much better (or worse) things used to be in the past. We live in a nation where too little of our history is written down, hardly ever in a form where it can be retrieved and read years later. That makes it easy for our leaders to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. They fall into the same traps, make the same mistakes, and the rest of us don't realise it could have all been avoided. That's the stupidity of always looking forward and never looking back. Also not knowing our own history makes it very hard to become enraged when our leaders' idiot decisions costs the country millions, even billions. We never knew it was avoidable! Amazingly, certain politicians who created our biggest disasters in the past still hang on long past their use by date. They successfully escape their past by reinventing themselves in a new image. Juli