Judge slams Lands Department corruption and calls for police action
Justice Kandakasi has slammed the widespread corruption in the Department of Lands and has called for police action against those public servants responsible for a long history of fraudulent leases and...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 630 days and counting…
There has still been NO ACTION to cancel the huge SABL land grab, revoke the unlawful leases or stop the illegal logging in Papua New Guinea. It is now 630 days since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to APEC: Matthew W.E Tjoeng and Garamut Enterprises
Mr. Antonio I. Basilio Director APEC Business Advisory Council 32/F, Zuellig Building Makati Avenue Corner Paseo de Roxas Makati City 1225 Philippines Dr Alan Bollard Executive Director APEC...
View ArticleDisplaced Residents and Customary LOs Slam Paga Hill Development Company
While displaced PNG citizens sleep in tents without promised services like water and electricity, PHDC’s foreign CEO rests in the comfort of his Australian mansion Over the last fifteen years the Paga...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 644 days and counting…
There has still been NO ACTION to cancel the huge SABL land grab, revoke the unlawful leases or stop the illegal logging in Papua New Guinea. It is now 644 days since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Australian Federal Police: The Tjoeng family and...
Commissioner Andrew Colvin Australian Federal Police GPO Box 401 Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA Dear Sir RE: Mr Daniel M.E. Tjoeng. James N.E Tjoeng, Mr. Matthew W.E. Tjoeng and Foeng Tjoeng and their...
View ArticleGovernment shifting blame for land grab onto the victims and refusing to act
Despite the Prime Minister’s sweet talk the government has no intention of reversing the SABL land grab and will instead continue to defend the foreign companies illegally logging our forests and the...
View ArticleCompulsory purchase used to seize land and replace flawed SABL lease
It seems the Department of Lands could be about to embark on a scheme to replace the now discredited and unlawful SABL leases with new land titles acquired using the compulsory acquisition powers in...
View ArticleAustralian owned company beneficiary of compulsory purchase order
The Department of Lands has used the compulsory purchase powers in the Lands Act to acquire a 12.5 hectare block of customary land outside Port Moresby and grant a 99-year lease to a company called...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 660 days and counting…
There has still been NO ACTION to cancel the huge SABL land grab, revoke the unlawful leases or stop the illegal logging in Papua New Guinea. It is now 660 days since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was...
View ArticleCompulsory purchase scandal: Firewall Logistics warned not to deal with land...
The Department of Land has recently gazetted the compulsory purchase of 12.5 hectares of customary land known as Portion 2467C. The land lies between the Napanapa Oil Rifinery and the Exxon Mobil LNG...
View ArticleParaka fails in latest bid to escape justice
Paraka’s court bid dismissed Post Courier An application by controversial lawyer Paul Paraka to stop a series of criminal proceedings against him at the committal court was refused by the Waigani...
View ArticleBougainville’s Momis government rocked by another corruption scandal
The Momis government has been plagued by serious allegations of high level corruption. Now it can be revealed that the President’s strategic planning head, Lauvatu Tautea, has been slammed by Taskforce...
View ArticleThe thirteen MPs so far charged, waiting sentence or imprisoned
From ACT NOW! For those of you who are keeping track, this is an update on the Papua New Guinea members of Parliament who have been charged or found guilty and await sentence or have been imprisoned to...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 672 days and counting…
There has still been NO ACTION to cancel the huge SABL land grab, revoke the unlawful leases or stop the illegal logging in Papua New Guinea. It is now 672 days since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was...
View ArticleNASA reveals big jump in deforestation in Madang
GloF-DAS map of Papua New Guinea showing forest disturbance for the first quarter of 2015 mongabay.com New NASA data shows a jump in forest loss in Madang Province during the first three months of...
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