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by GREG MANDA Secrecy of financial arrangements and obfuscation of government budgeting has risen dramatically in the last two years.  The Switzerland UBS loan is now history and no accounting has been given to Parliament or the people of Papua New Guinea.  In the wake of the UBS loan, the country has been saddled with a new K1.5B loan from Credit Suisse.  Has the Prime Minister invited any discussion from his ministers and the full Parliament on this new loan? Most Members of Parliament are in the dark about the essentials of the UBS loan.  Every MP should be demanding full disclosure of all the details on the UBS loan.  What we know is the loan totaled K3.0B, making it one of the biggest loans in the history of the nation and greatly increasing the indebtedness of the country.  The Prime Minister needs to realize that the UBS money are public funds and therefore need a full and public accounting. We also know that most of the UBS money was used in March 2014 to bu

by WILLIAM KEP According to a survey of world cities by the Intelligence Unit of The Economist 2014, Port Moresby is one of the world's least livable cities (ranked 139 of 140 cities rated). Is the above statement and rating misleading and unacceptable at least to its residents? The answer to that, is that the rating is so true, the statement is not misleading and the rating is a bitter pill of reality of life for the residents and also visitors of Port Moresby. Question now should be, what are the reasons for the above result? The reasons are vast but the obvious are as follows. Standard of the infrastructure and utilities of the City Attitude issues, no care and reckless mindset of its people Social life in the City non-existent Social services in the City are unreliable and substandard Crime and rampant raskol gang activities The reasons for the rating can be many (depending one’s own orientation), but the major one and the root cause is that Port Mor

The K30 million Peter O'Steal took from his Remington Group of companies was not his after all. Wildcat Developments is owed K10 million, and it was money to be used to pay employees. Wildcat staff have not been paid for six weeks. O'Steal cares more about bribing Members of Parliament than his own workers.

by Stanley M (Former National Parliament Staff) Many people were wondering this lawyer-philanthropist-come-politician has standing in the nation, worthy of the bible verses he nit-picked on Friday 22nd July to sway the support of Members to Peter O’Neill. He argued that the judiciary was unconventionally interfering with the functions of Parliament and so Parliament had to put up a similar fight. But not many are aware of the past of Kelly Naru, a rich lawyer who was dubbed by many as a philanthropist. He dished out cash to people in need prior to becoming a politician. Was he genuinely generous or was it a vote buying bribery exercise he was carrying out prior to standing for public office? Interestingly, all those generosity ceased since he became the Governor of Morobe. Where did Kelly Naru get all those monies from? We know lawyers do make a lot of money but we also know that some of them make money through illegitimate means like the controversial Paul Paraka. From info

by CAPTAIN JAMES MAKOP - CHINA It is with dismay that Kelly Naru had used or abused Parliamentary privilege by labeling concerned professional Papua New Guineans as domestic terrorists on the floor of parliament. We the citizens of Papua New Guinea have given you a mandate for 5 years to represent US, not YOURSELVES in parliament. How it turned to be a total abuse of power and deliberately misconstruing of the Constitution to justify politicians' criminal acts while turning it against us the true owners of power is absolutely condemnable in the strongest possible terms. Are intellectuals who are able to discern right from wrong now terrorists because they took a conscionable action against what is clearly a disregard for the rule of law and the systematic disassembling of democratic institutions by the prime minister? We are talking about professionals in the fields of medicine, engineering, aviation, electrical, maritime, aviation among others. Personally I have never had a

by Dr ANTHONY DEKLIN We know Kelly Naru, the Morobe Governor, is politically a high-profile lawyer, and that in the No Confidence Motion last Friday, he supported the Prime Minister. In his speech before the vote, he called on the executive and legislative arms of national government to launch a judicial review because in his professional view the important provisions of our Mama Law (the National Constitution) had been breached. These provisions are, sections 99 (structure of government) 115 (parliamentary privileges and immunities) and 37 (protection of the law). The media reported the call widely. Naru's professional view of the essence of each of these provisions, and particularly their respective scope, shows his ignorance of the law on which these provisions are based. Here is why. LIMITS OF SEPARATION OF POWERS PRINCIPLE UNDER SECTIONS 99 AND 115 Naru argues that the recent decision by a three-person Supreme Court directing the Speaker to recall the Parliament t

by NIUGINI OUTLOOK Last week's story didn't occur because someone dug up the old news and republished it to embarrass Peter O'Neill. No, this happened for other reasons. Peter Waieng's bodyguard, who was a suspect all along in the murder case, resurfaced and surrendered to Kundiawa police. Apparently he has confessed, as would be expected whenever a suspect would surrender, and it is no surprise if the rumours turn out to be true that Peter O'Neill had authorised and paid for the murder. Niugini Outlook and PNG Blogs decided last October to resurrect the Waieng story because it suspiciously looked like the police or people higher than the police were trying to cover up the investigation and let it die a natural death. We were determined to make sure this did not happen, hence the publication of the PNG Blogs article and Niugini Outlook Poster. As always, we got a lot of angry comments, mostly by people who seemed to have a vested interest i

Photo Credit:  ABC News: Eric Tlozek by MARCUS PENI The O’Neill Gover nment has survived a vote of "no confidence" in PM O’Neill, thanks to the support from the 85 MPs who with willful blindness supported O’Neill. What happened on 22nd July, 2016 was a desperate attempt by a corrupt government that is more concerned to cling to power than it is to seek the verdict of the people. The Venal MPs who protected O’Neill on Friday 22nd July do know that they did not commit their allegiance on matters of principle, policy or public interest. They stood with O’Neill for their own survival. What was expected on that day was not for both sides of the house to demonstrate their numerical strengths. It was a call far important than a show of mob potency. The Judiciary in attuning to the populous protracted call for PM O’Neill to step down, facilitated that change by ordering Parliament to reconvene and address the pressing issue –removal of Peter O’Neill as PM. The Parliament se

  by MANGI MOROBE Some of the conducts that questioned the impartiality of Speaker Theo Zurenuoc during the Motion of No Confidence Vote are:   1. He is the head of the Legislative arm of the Government which should, as is done in many other established democracies, provide the appropriate check and balance on the Executive Government’s running of the country. He has willingly failed miserably as he is a member of the ruling party, PNC, which he joined while being a Speaker.   2. In his failure, the Court intervened. However, he dared to attack the judiciary and its orders for the recalling of Parliament.  3. Despite the Clear terms of the Supreme Court Order for the Vote of No Confidence to be introduced, debated and voted on in accordance with section 145 of the Constitution, the Speaker initially insisted to have the motion introduced, debated and voted on 15 July 2016 the same day. If it wasn’t for the subsequent Ancillary Orders of the Supreme Court, the Speaker would no