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by CYRIL GARE Resource development, ownership, and fair and equal sharing of benefits accrued from development projects such as mining and oil and gas remain a biggest challenge yet for Papua New Guinea 41 years on as an Independent country. And the people of Londolovit on Lihir island, New Ireland province are among one such group of resource owners who are still searching for a correct matrix to balance the scale. They own the traditional Londolovit river where Newcrest Mining Limited (NML) operator of the Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) extracts water for its operations since 1995. Their fight is three fold between LMALA (Lihir Mining Area Landowners Association) who are owners of the “gold”, LGL, and State. Their issues have been to: get LMALA to acknowledge them as “water” resource owners and remit adequate benefit as possible under the Integrated Benefit Package (IBP) of the Lihir mine Agreement which stand is justified on the premise that water is fundamental in gold processing wi

by KEVIN TEMO PETER O'NEILL SEEMS TO EXCEL IN CONVINCING PEOPLE HE IS WHATEVER THEY WANT HIM TO BE: This is a standard tool of successful politicians. They start out as followers of the people's will, which is exactly what elected representatives should be in true democracies. The question we must always ask, of course, is whether when the politician says what they think we want to hear, if they will put all their energies into achieving the objectives that we the people lay out for them. Or are they actually trying to serve their private interests using their public position when they're out of site of the people? Are they lying or manipulating the people who elected them by what they say, using their words to achieve nothing more than to secure the people's support, in the shortterm at least, with no care at all to actually serving the people's needs, but with total concern to hanging on to power? Whether or not Peter O'Neill is a genuine, God fearing

PETER O'NEILL SAYS NOT TO SELL YOUR LAND YET HE WANTS CUSTOMARY LANDOWNERS TO DO THE VERY THINGS THAT MAKE IT EASIER TO GRAB THEIR LAND NIUGINI OUTLOOK One of the best ways to take away people's land is to keep them dumb and stupid about land laws and land rights. Keeping people ignorant about land legalities also allows landowners to trick those who think they are buying land when they're actually not. The only way we know of to sell land legally in PNG is to sell to the state. It may be possible under the law for natural born citizens to sell land to other natural born citizens but the way customary landowners are selling blocks of land around every city in PNG today is a scam if you think you now own a block of land. The law seems to point to the transaction as being a transfer of temporary rights to use the land, not actually to own it. Thus, the blockholders are not buying land. It is more like they are renting it. In nearly all cases, there are no legal pape

by MICHAEL J PASSINGAN There is a particular Member of Parliment who according to the constitution lost his PNG Citizenship upon reaching the age of 19 by maintaining an Australian Passport. He then spent several years living and working in Australia as well as in PNG working as an "expatriate" on a work visa and work permit, It wasn't until he when reached the age of 45 that he renounced his Australian Citizenship and quietly started using a PNG Passport again. The following year, 2012, he stood for election and became a member of Parliment.  Now back then there was no dual citizenship law and the constitution was very clear. If you were a child with one forgien parent you had to choose which citizenship you were to maintain after your 19th Birthday. If you maintained a forgien citizenship after this time you automatically lost your PNG Citizenship as a matter of Law. So what this means is that we have a sitting member of Parliment who lost his PN

by BRANDON CLAY I am not revealing my real name because of security reasons but the issues I raise here are true to the best of my knowledge. I was initially engaged to provide some consultancy services to a LNG landowner company. Occasionally, I would attend Court for my client but most of my work is non-court. I am compelled to expose this rot because I feel that Papua New Guineans have to know the frightening level of corruption gripping the judiciary and I believe the information I am providing is among the many salient examples. My clients had a case before the Court, and the presiding judge, Ambeng Kandakasi, considered this case to be part of a number of legal disputes concerning the PNG LNG so he proceeded to direct all these cases for mediation at the National Court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Track. Justice Kandakasi appointed himself as the Chief Mediator over all these cases. At the ADR track, the issues changed form, from a dispute concerning Infrast

NIUGINI OUTLOOK THE PEOPLE OF PNG MAY FORGET AND FORGIVE MASSIVE CORRUPTION BY OUR LEADERS BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO JOIN THAT PARADE AT NIUGINI OUTLOOK: It has now been a month since Michael Somare promised that after consulting his lawyers, he might have further statement to make to the people of PNG as to why he had a secret Singapore account (confirmed with evidence in a Singapore court) that was still holding an astounding amount of money (for a public servant who testified at his 2011 Leadership Tribunal that the only money he earned was from his public servant's salary) - namely over K900,000 (confirmed with evidence in a Singapore court) out of over K2 million deposited into that account (confirmed with evidence in a Singapore court) by Lim Ai Wah, the Singaporean wife of Philip Doehrman, an American who Michael Somare appointed to head, together with his son Michael Somare Jr, a PNG government trust account containing K156 million that was earmarked to build commun

by ROBERT MORUMBU Several defenders of Peter O'Neill and his infrastructure scam commented on PNG Blogs when the article comparing dictator Kim Jong Un's (North Korea) infrastructure infatuation with Peter O'Neill's infrastructure infatuation. The point made was that both countries have been emphasising iheadlong dedication to infrastructure creation. North Korea has been doing it for years and it hasn't achieved much in improving their integral human development for the people as a whole. PNG is basically following the North Korea model and the results as a far as real development is concerned, is likely to be the same disappointment as North Korea is getting. Peter O'Neill's infrastructure boom is a scam for several reasons. First, a lot of it is built with loan money, which all has to be paid back with interest, using the taxpayer's money. Second and worse, when the infrastructure is built poorly, it falls apart before the loan money used to bu

by JACK STRAUS PETER O'NEILL IS FOLLOWING A VERY SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY THAT ADOLF HITLER USED IN GERMANY TO WIN THE HEARTS OF GERMAN CITIZENS, ALLOWING HIM TO MANIPULATE THEM INTO CREATING GLOBAL DISASTER: Actually it was not only Adolf Hitler who used the trick of building fancy infrastructure to please the people. Next door in Italy, Hitler ally Benito Mussolini did the same thing. A famous saying is that Mussolini succeeded where no other Italian leader could in that he made the trains run on time. Action men were Hitler and Mussolini! Action men like Pita Ipatas and Pita O'Neill! People like action but usually they don't bother to evaluate what the action is leading to in terms of lasting development that doesn't soon fall down again. People like action but they don't bother to contemplate what will be the end result of all that action to make the people happy. In the case of Hitler and Mussolini it all led to World War II and the killing of tens of million

by KAND KULUM IS THERE ANYONE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF PETER O’NIELL’S VULNERABILITY? APPOINTMENTS OF TOP PUBLIC SERVANTS: CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICE To each and everyone, re-direct the bullets to the rightful culprits hiding and causing all sorts of economic problems including distorting Christian teachings and its faith. Peter O’Neill is a scapegoat, though. On the day of appointment of Mr. Ruel Yamuna, the CCDA Facebook page -  https://www.facebook.com/www. occd.gov.pg- , whoever the administrator is/are, forewarned of this foul appointment. “…We would also warn political opportunist to refrain from prograting lies as the new candidate is smart, vibrant, and intelligent. The CCDA is run by a young team of elite Papua New Guineans all below the age of 30 and the last thing we need is Operating on Old School methods and a pyramid structure of stress. We are happy and will be welcoming a young and vibrant blood”. Something smells fishy for this announcement even before the official a