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Different charges for same legal jobs
Lawyers responsible for over charging, fraud and corruption… BY DONALD WILLIE in Post Courier THE State is paying some law firms three times more for similar cases, a lawyer involved in the Commission...
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O’Neill’s illegal logging: 466 days and counting…
It is now 466 days since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was told that the SABL leases were unlawful and should be revoked. It was on June 24, 2013 that he was given the reports of the SABL Commission...
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Auditor General: DSIP ineffective and of limited value, payments should be...
The Auditor General has presented to Parliament his report on the District Service Improvement Program for 2012/13. The report concludes there has been “ineffective spending of DSIP grants”, “potential...
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Unprecedented Case filed at International Criminal Court proposes land...
Lets hope we will soon see political leaders, senior public servants and foreign businessmen being held to account for land grabbing and illegal logging in Papua New Guinea just as they are in Cambodia...
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NBPOL suitor has record of land grabbing and human rights violations in Liberia
Sime Darby is infamous for illegal land clearing, violent clashes with local communities, illegal forest fires and for threatening the last orangutan habitats. Sime Darby, the Malaysian oil palm...
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Suspicious but booming ‘Torokina Real Estate’ in Madang
Leonard Fong Roka A few minutes’ drive north of Madang Town there is a block of land with sprouting number of houses surrounded by coconut palms and squalid type homes of the indigene. And the...
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Uncertain Futures: What does Sime Darby takeover of NBPOL mean for the people...
Uncertain Futures is the title of a 2012 report on the impacts of Sime Darby on communities in Liberia. The report paints a chilling and tragic picture of human rights violations. Sime Darby is the...
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O’Neill’s illegal logging: 480 days and counting…
It is now 480 days since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was told that the SABL leases were unlawful and should be revoked. It was on June 24, 2013 that he was given the reports of the SABL Commission...
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Corrupt logging interests attempt to overthrow reformist Governor
GARY’S THOUGHTS AS A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE MOTION LOOMS By Gary Juffa – Papua New Guinea My Land My Country As a vote of no confidence against Oro Governor, Gary Juffa, looms, he writes about the...
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SABL: PNG government is failing its people and environment, say scientists
A leading scientific group is criticizing the government of Papua New Guinea for failing to make good on its promise to phase out Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABLs), which the group sees...
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Concern at commercial logging plans on Woodlark Island
By Jeremy Hance, Mongabay A number of the world’s top conservation scientists have raised concerns about plans for commercial logging on Woodlark Island, a hugely biodiverse rainforest island off the...
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Terror at Paga Hill Continues: Pre-School and Church levelled by Police
In July Port Moresby’s Paga Hill community won a long legal struggle against the Paga Hill ‘Development’ Company and its Australian CEO ‘Gummi’ Fridriksson. The Supreme Court ruled that the community...
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Tell KLK to leave Collingwood Bay now!
Collingwood Bay By Lester Seri* Lester Seri is from Collingwood Bay and is one of many local residents fiercely resisting KLK’s attempted landgrab of the community’s forests. My name is Lester Seri,...
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Rimbunan Hijau takeover of PNG almost complete – all funded through illegal...
Loggers unveil big expansion plans From Freddy Mou on PNG Loop Rimbunan Hijau, the giant logging company in PNG, opened its K5 million service station depot at Vision City Shopping mall in Port...
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Democracy in Oro Province hijacked by Asian logger
Asian loggers in the Oro province have funded a hostile takeover of the Provincial House of Assembly – the symbol of Papua New Guinea’s construction in the province. Governor Gary Juffa has vocally...
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