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by WILSON PUNIM The elephant in the room must be addressed early if this move by the Opposition is to gain positive traction and lead to a change of government.  . As it is, Vanimo has yet to name it's alternate Prime Minister? . Without settling this issue, there is no going forward for the Opposition Camp. Leaving it too late can have dire consequences on the floor of Parliament itself come 1/12/2020. Dealing with the issue early can mean that differences of opinion on who should be the alternate PM, are dealt with in the days leading up to 1/12/2020. . As it is there are just too many who want the one job camped in the one group at Vanimo. A clash of their egos would permeate the very room they are in. I am sure Basil has felt it by now.  Even all other MPs down the rank have their own preferences. With their preferred man, they could end up with a ministry, especially when elections are around the next bend. . There is Namah, Prueiths, O'Neill, Basil, Duma and even Chan and

PNGDF INSIDER HMS Ted Diro left POM for Bula/Torassi, South Fly Western Province on Tuesday 3rd of November this week, that same Tuesday Jamie Pang the drug dealer put on a show on TV by offering a room key at Sanctuary Hotel to a roadside market couple. He was creating the perfect alibi. The NAVY Boat that went to Daru had Cocaine packed by the storeman and labelled as medicine for HMS Tarangau and was put on the boat. The cargo is not medicine but Cocaine. HMS Ted Diro is the new craft recently handed over to PNGDF by Australian Government. So a perfect diversion was cooked up. The captain was sidelined for some reasons and stayed behind, a new captain was appointed for this run. A perfect plan. All the permanent Ted Diro Crew were left behind and a few selected crew boarded the boat. All pre-planned. They said the boat was doing a run for National Fisheries Authority, yet again another decoy. Several people called the captain to find out the location and mission and the captain gave

By Tamarah Terano, PNG'S most corrupt MP William Duma is at it again.  He's now about to or is stealing from MVIL and NBD. During the period when the Oneill govt was about to be overthrown last year the country's attention was on the vote of no confidence.  Duma the coniving crook he is used the opportunity and quietly appointed his first cousin Michael Mell to chair the NDB Board.  He also appointed his tribesman Michael Makap as MD for MVIL.  Duma was the Minister for State Enterprises in the Oneill govt and both NDB and MVIL came under his ministry. These men are very close to Duma who personally pushed for their appointment without any going through any transparent recruitment process. Duma has now not only charmed Marape to embrace him and appoint him to Minister for Trade and Industry but he has also somehow convinced Marape and his Cabinet to remove NDB and MVIL under the ambit of State Enterprises Minister and transfer it to Trade and Industry under himself.  Marape

by PAUL HANDAPE It is very disturbing not to mention alarming that Papua New Guineans appear to be becoming inured to the vagaries of corruption and corrupt practises. This is evidenced by comments made on social media on various pages where some commentators and posters are seen justifying new acts of corruption, suspicious and questionable actions by Ministers and departmental heads and others in positions of power and authority. The maxim used in these instances is because there was no action taken when a past occupant of the position id this, the present action is justifiable because a precedent has been set. One example is the comparison of the recent K10.2 million “investment” into a Covid 19 “cure” based on the sole decision and authority of the Prime Minister with the decision to invest K100 million into the failed deep sea mining project off New Ireland. I would have thought that the failure of the Nautilus project would have triggered more stringent approval procedures and pr

by  PAUL HANDAPE On 02nd September the National Parliament of PNG passed two laws called the gazette NEC & PM Amendment Bill #02/2020 and Public Services (Management) (Consequential Amendment) Bill 2020. The intention of these two bills was to abolish the position of the Chief Secretary and consequentially remove Isaac Lupari from this position. On the 03rd of September, the day after these bills were passed, Prime Minister Honorable James Marape., MP, wrote to Speaker of Parliament Hon. Job Pomat requesting that the gazettal of these bills be delayed until after January 2021. (The letter says January 2020 but that is an obvious typo as it was written in September 2020). Now why the Prime Minister would be writing to the Speaker of Parliament to do this is open to interpretation?  Readers need to reflect back to the APEC summit and the decisions of the O’Neil cabinet then that all government contracts for APEC were to be channelled through the Chief Secretary. In other words, Isaac

by PAUL AMATIO The Covid 19 research team (a.k.a  Snake Oil Squad) has received massive funding from the State at a time when money is scarce and hard to come by at all corners of the state institutions to keep functioning effectively.  We have seen photos of hospitals where patients are lining up or sleeping on the floor due to no medicine. Cancer patients are dying from lack of a cobalt machine (I read somewhere it only costs K30 thousand) and people with TB and other diseases are also suffering from lack of medication. Yet we have a team here that has gone above and beyond what other scientists and medical researchers around the world with decades of experience behind them and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of lab equipment, support staff and computer generation power behind them have been unable to do over the last 6 months. Truly a miracle. I watched the TV interview as posted on Facebook and from what i could gather, the proponents of this "breakthrough" stated v

Elizabeth Lolo Bradshaw, one of two super consultants  advising the Morobe Governor on the Wafi-Golpu issue, has been named as a shareholder of Niugini Biomed – the company attempting to steal K10 million through a COVID-19 scam project. Investment Promotion Authority records show that the company was registered in on the 14th of August. Lolo Bradshaw owns seven shares out of a total of 76. Bradshaw is a failed politician who contested for the Gulf regional seat. According to documents from the Morobe administration, she is currently being paid K50,000 per month for providing advice to the Morobe Governor. She has taken over control of the Morobe Provincial Government business arm in which the governor is listed as a shareholder. Her business partner is another failed politician and  lawyer Ralf Saulep. He  is the center of another controversy in which he was reportedly paid K14 million for legal advice  to the government on the Wafi-Golpu project. Bradshaw is worming  her way into the

by  Israel Lama, 30th October 2020 This has been the worst week for James Marape in the 17 months he has been in office. He has been caught with his hand in the cash register of the nation, and to make it worse, he lied to tried to cover up his sins. 𝑃𝑂𝐿𝐼𝑇𝐼𝐶𝐴𝐿 𝐻𝑌𝑃𝑂𝐶𝑅𝐼𝑆𝑌 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑊𝑂𝑅𝑆𝑇 𝑆𝐼𝑁 The worst thing any politician can ever do is to betray what they claim are their state beliefs. Hypocrisy is death in politics, and after mistake after failure after mistake, for which the public and Members of Parliament have been reasonably forgiving, the payment of K10 million to Marape’s associates for a fake miracle cure is likely to be the end of James Marape as PM. With perhaps only 20 MPs who he could claim are his believers, Marape can expect a big move of MPs to the Opposition and Middle Benches ahead of Parliament in a couple of weeks. 𝐿𝑂𝑁𝐺-𝑆𝑇𝐴𝑁𝐷𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝐶𝑂𝑅𝑅𝑈𝑃𝑇𝐼𝑂𝑁 𝑅𝑈𝑀𝑂𝑈𝑅𝑆 𝑉𝐴𝐿𝐼𝐷𝐴𝑇𝐸𝐷 There have long been accusations that the Tari-Pori

  by ROBERT MOROPA Port Moresby, October 2020 – James Marape made Papua New Guinea a laughingstock in global media overnight after paying more than ten million Kina to a paper company claiming to have a miracle cure for Coronavirus. The other countries are already 12 months ahead in research & trials. They will probably have a vaccine by end of 2021. What good is a PNG vaccine if it is only ready 12 months BEHIND the rest of the world? Who will buy a product when it is already OUT OF DATE on its release? Papua New Guinea is still a 3rd World country begging foreign governments for yearly contributions to the national budget because (in 45 years of Independence) PNG country has moved backwards in development & progress due to systemic & systematic CORRUPTION! PNG is the world leader in ONLY ONE THING and that is CORRUPTION! World news outlets have condemned the scam outright saying no one in their right mind believes that PM Marape, together with a political crony, a Parliam