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by JACK P KELUA Most PNG laws are just but some are not. Certain laws passed under the O'Neill regime seem aimed at dismantling checks and balances that are considered essential for vibrant democracies. These checks and balances are clearly stated in our constitution but Peter O'Neill is very clear that unless someone has the big money to mount legal challenges as to the unconstitutionality of a particular law, the law will stay in place and can be enforced. In other words, the government wins not by upholding justice but by threatening to bankrupt those who fight for justice. Such is the case with the cybersecurity law currently on the table. The law is almost certain to pass and when it does, it likely infringes on free speech rights provided by our Constitution. Thus, it is an unjust law. Martin Luther King said the following about unjust laws: "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." That is why Niugini Outlook is providing this informatio

by NIUGINI OUTLOOK Successive government in PNG have been brilliant at fooling parents, students and the nation regarding their investment in education. Now Peter O'Neill is bragging that the nation invests K2 billion in education yearly, which no government has ever done. These are the facts: - No government has seriously supported education in our country in any kind of quality way. - The government spends less money per student today for education than occurred 30 years ago, whether it is community school level or university. - Our population growth combined with the declining value of the kina due to inflation, completely outstrips the government's ability to increase the amount of kina in real terms spent on education per student. - For many years, the country got away with this lack of investment because so few people had even high school education and there were plenty of jobs available for those who did. - Our PNG universities in particular started sli

by KARK SEMANU WHAT ARE TRUST FUNDS Outside of PNG trust funds are normally established as either medium term holding accounts whose contents at a specified date are turned over to a beneficiary, or to an account maintained in perpetuity, where the principal is never touched and only the earned interest monies are ever withdrawn. CORRUPT USAGE OF TRUST FUNDS:   1. LEAVING THE PRINCIPAL BUT STEALING THE EARNED INTEREST In PNG, the trust account concept has been corrupted in many directions. The most common reason for a politican or a government bureaucrat to want control of a trust account is to steal the interest monies accrued. That is a corruption of the traditional trust account in that they have no authorisation to do this. The interest monies earned belong to the government. The corrupt government official's actions escape the government's attention in many cases in this way: A government disbursement of a quite large amount of money is secured, let's say K2

by PNG SPORTS FOUNDATION Insider A clock displayed on a digital screen outside the Sir John Guise stadium will countdown the days until the first match of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup at 4pm on November 13. The digital clock was turned on by Sports Minister, Justin Tkatchenko, PNG Sports Foundation Executive Director, Peter Tsiamalili Jnr; Local Organising Committee Chief Executive Officer, Seamus Marten, PNG Football Association, Senior Vice President, Linda Wonuhali and PNGFA General Secretary Dimirit Mileng. The significant event took place this week to mark the 100 days countdown to the World Cup. Local Organising Committee Chief Executive Officer, Seamus Marten said the countdown clock will be visible to the residents of Port Moresby who will play host to this world sporting event. “One of our goals is to fill up the stadiums come November so the countdown clock will act as an exciting reminder for us and the residents of Port Moresby of how long until the kick-off

by MICHAEL JOSEPH PASSINGAN PNG’s biggest daylight robber Isaac Lupari recently put out a statement as chairman of the MRDC board denying that the State-Owned Enterprise had funded the Government camp in Alotau. Prove it, liar. Submit all of MRDC’s accounts for immediate audit and then we’ll see who is telling the truth. The statements made by informed sources and published first here on PNG Blogs are true and correct. MRDC trust funds (K30 million) and PNG LNG Hides landowner company (K30 million) were robbed by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to bribe MPs to support the Government in the Vote of No Confidence. The daylight robberies were carried out by MRDC managing director Augustine Mano and Hides Gas Development Company Libe Parindali on the direct orders of the Prime Minister. Lupari’s denials are just his usual spin and lies – just like his denials of having defrauded the state of K3.7 million through fake contract compensation claims. Lupari is one of the Prime Mi

PRESS RELEASE Prominent Landowner leader Larry Labe Andagali of Hides PDL 1  is supporting the call by Hides PDL 7 landowners to shut down the LNG project indefinitely. This Government as taken  5 and half years since the signing of last and final LBBSA agreement at Hides PDL1 Nogoli Camp on the 7th Dec 2009 (4am). Mr Andagali said it has taken all this years to give a blind eye on its people to complete Clan Vetting and landowner identification process.  This process will identify legitimate clans and their leaders to carry out the following: 1. Develop their future generations benefit management trust, 2. Develop Infrastructure development plan to spend K120m per annum IDG grants 3. Raise 4.27%  croton equity 4. Develop proper umbrella company structure to management 30% of its community investment programmes from their Royalty and Equity benefits 5. Develop proper ILG cash distribution processes and 6. Raise 4.27% of their Kroton Equity. He said that Provincial Gove

by SOLOMON KEPAS This is the second of 2 related articles covering the unsolved murder mystery of Papua New Guinea’s former MP and Defence Minister Peter Waieng. The first article discusses the conditions through which social media, public gossip and informal Courts of Public Opinion have achieved some measure of justice when formal justice structures fail. PNG’s formal justice system has failed in the murder case of Peter Waieng and traditional media has also failed to inform the public about this case. Social media has moved to take up the slack. Introducing Late MP Peter Waieng Peter Waieng, of Gam Kane heritage and Simbu’s Nar Ku people, was one of the youngest (28) ever elected MPs. Having already earned a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Wollongong, he went into politics in 1997, being elected to serve as Kundiawa-Gembogl MP and Minister of Defence. Mr Waieng only served one term. After his 2002 loss, he shifted his attention for th

by GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE INSIDER The circus clowns of Waigani have come out again to display their insanity making all Papua New Guineans look to look like a stupid fool. A junior officer at the Sate Solicitor Officer who recently graduated from UPNG in 2009 with a Law Degree has been appointed the Acting Managing Director of Climate Change & Development Authority. The appointee Mr. Ruel Yamuna is the biological son of Ron Yamuna the current District Administrator of Ialibu Pangia Electorate of which Prime Minister Peter O’Niel is the local member. The Yamnuna family are a distant relative of Prime Minister O’Niel. The other Uncle Oscar Yamuna is the Deputy Chief of Staff of Prime Minister. This is gross abuse of Public Office and bluntly conflict of interest in which the said person has been appointed when he does not have the necessary credentials nor does he posses the right experience to hold such office. He was never a Principal Legal Officer, line Manager, neith

by SOLOMON KEPAS The mystery of who murdered former MP Peter Waieng illustrates how badly the formal justice system of both courts and police has failed the people of Papua New Guinea.   An informal replacing system of seeing justice done has started to appear as a result, just like it has in so many places overseas.   Indications are that Peter Waieng’s murder investigation was quietly abandoned in the hopes that the people of PNG would forget.  This strategy probably would have succeeded if not for the rise of the PNG social media and internet access by hundreds of thousands of Papua New Guineans.  Just as social media outside of PNG has created Courts of Public Opinion that ultimately have convicted and punished well known personalities from their countries, PNG’s social media is producing sites and activities for citizen involvement.  The Peter O’Neill government complains about defamatory, slanderous speech and unfounded rumours.  Looking at the overall picture, it only has