Being a Minister in PNG can seriously expand your wealth and your waistline
If you can judge the wealth of a man by the size of his house then the last four years have been very kind to Justin Tkatchenko. Based on the value of his property holdings in Queensland he might have...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 1232 days and counting…
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill still refuses to do anything to reverse the huge SABL land grab or stop the illegal logging. So much for all his promises to revoke the unlawful leases and return the land...
View ArticleO’Neill again promises to end SABL land grab
The Prime Minister has again announced the government is cancelling controversial SABL leases and returning the land to its customary owners. “I am pleased to say that all the SABL leases to be...
View ArticleForest Minister, Tomuriesa, a complete hypocrite over the SABL land grab and...
Forest Minister, Douglas Tomuriesa, is so full of bullshit… The audacity, bare faced cheek and hypocrisy from Forest Minister Douglas Tomuriesa is just jaw dropping! This is a man who for three years...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 1246 days and counting…
The promises from Prime Minister Peter O’Neill keep coming, but we are still waiting to see ANY ACTION to reverse the huge SABL land grab, still waiting to see ANY ACTION to return the land to...
View ArticleDepartment of Lands still dealing in illegal SABL leases
The Department of Lands is still ignoring the SABL Commission of Inquiry findings and dealing with SABL leases found to have been illegally issued and recommended to be revoked, as if there is nothing...
View ArticleKLK pulls out of oil palm in Collingwood Bay but logging fears remain
Source: Gabriel Thoumi – ValueWalk In December 2012, Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK) bought 51% of the equity in Collingwood Plantations Pte (CWB) via KLK Overseas Investments Limited for $8.7...
View ArticleWho is illegally dredging for gold on Bougainville?
Illegal gold dredging on the Jaba river might not be Chinese owned, as claimed in the media Recent media reports say a Chinese company, Jaba Joint Development, is illegally dredging for gold on the...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 1260 days and still waiting…
The promises from Prime Minister Peter O’Neill keep coming, but we are still waiting to see ANY ACTION to reverse the huge SABL land grab; still waiting to see ANY ACTION to return the land to...
View ArticleMalaysian illegal logger and politician repays O’Neill for keeping SABL with...
By PAULUS PARAKA – PNG Blogs Out at Waigani, behind the new National Conference Centre, a large residential village of 50 or so duplexes is being built by the little known foreign company Jaya &...
View ArticleUN takes human rights celebration into PNG’s worst abuser’s home
Today is international human rights day, and the United Nations, USAid and AusAID are inviting us all to celebrate in the home of PNG’s worst human rights abuser, Rimbunan Hijau. Vision City is a...
View ArticleAustralian giant, Orica operating on illegal SABL land
Orica, one of the leading publicly-owned companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, is operating on land outside Port Moresby acquired through illegal Special Agriculture Business Leases...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 1274 days and counting…
The promises from Prime Minister Peter O’Neill keep coming, but we are still waiting to see ANY ACTION to reverse the huge SABL land grab; ANY ACTION to return the land to customary landholders; and,...
View ArticleUS Senators urge action over SABL land grab and illegal logging
Senator Patrick Leahy is the most senior member of the United States Congress Source: ACT NOW! Two United States Senators, Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator Jeff Merkley, have written to Prime Minister...
View ArticleMadang to lose iconic green spaces in APEC land grab
The Sir Donald Cleland Park in Madang and the green space opposite the Holy Spirit Cathedral are to be lost to commercial development. Lands Minister Benny Allen has granted commercial leases over the...
View ArticleWill Port Moresby’s ‘Tourism City’ be a White Elephant?
An artists impression of the promised estate Anyone who switched on the television, radio or internet yesterday, would have been confronted with bold government announcements of a new tourism city,...
View ArticleKey government Minister to benefit from bulldozing of Madang parks
In a blatant abuse of position, MP for Madang and Minister for Petroleum, Nixon Duban, has successfully lobbied for two controversial commercial leases to be granted to a company, Dawan Investment, to...
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