Has PM O’Neill appointed a fraudster to investigate the alleged Duma Fraud?
Chief Sec Issac Lupari was condemned by the Commission of Inquiry into the Department of Finance for being the mastermind of a multimillion dollar fraud This week we were reminded why PNG needs an...
View ArticleDuma Scandal Thickens – The Fox is in the Henhouse
When PNG Blogs exposed the Duma scandal, in which the Minister is alleged to have personally benefited from K50 million paid by the State to relocate the Lancron naval base, it was hard to know where...
View ArticleUnited Resources Party at the centre of Manumanu land scandal: former and...
Yesterday Peter O’Neill announced a Commission of Inquiry would be launched into the Manumanu land deal. We can welcome this move, without celebrating its author. O’Neill has had numerous...
View ArticleAustralia entrusts its governance program to an exposed fraudster
Exposed fraudster Isaac Lupari and Australian High Commissioner, Bruce Davis, chair the first Strategic Management Committee meeting to oversee the new PNG Governance Facility (PGF). The photo above...
View ArticleNHC’s John Dege a ‘Success Star’ claims new MD
In a world becoming increasingly accustomed to fake news, yesterday we were delivered up a howling example of ‘alternative facts’, delivered by caretaker Managing Director of the National Housing...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 1330 days and counting…
It is now just a few months to the election, but there is still NO ACTION to reverse the huge SABL land grab. NO ACTION to return the land to customary landholders and NO ACTION to stop the illegal...
View ArticleElite network behind Paga Hill Estate
Minister Justin Tkatchenko has this week called for a Commission of Inquiry into the murky deals behind acquisition of Paga Hill land and the abuse suffered by its former residents at the hands of...
View ArticleStolen SABL land would reach all the way to the moon
By ACTNOW! Fifty two thousand square kilometres of customary land has been stolen in the SABL land grab. 52,000 square kilometres is the same as 5.2 million hectares – but what does that amount of...
View ArticleAustralian conservatives concerned at APEC waste and lack of action on...
PNG’s sidelined Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato and Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop at Parliament House in Canberra. Piers Akerman: PNG waste stretches neighbourly concern PIERS AKERMAN,...
View ArticleJudge sits on illegal logging compensation claim for 4 years
Rimbunan Hijau is relentlessly expanding its empire while villages wait in vain for compensation for their illegal logging A group of landholders from the Southern Highlands have been waiting for four...
View ArticleIs there something fishy about Bougainville’s new Vice President?
The Autonomous Bougainville Government, under the leadership of President John Momis, is not shy about appointing criminals to Cabinet positions. Take the example of Fidelis Semoso, Minister for...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 1344 days and counting…
There is still NO ACTION to reverse the huge SABL land grab. NO ACTION to return the land to customary landholders and NO ACTION to stop the illegal logging in SABL areas. It is now 1,344 days since...
View ArticleWill Prime Minister O’Neill crumble before NEC opponents over Manumanu COI?
When evidence was made public on 1 February this year, linking the State Enterprises Minister, Defence Minister and Chair of the Central Supply and Tender Board, to a major land swindle, Prime...
View ArticleIs PNG taking over Bougainville via the backdoor?
Over the past month, there has been a sudden spike in reporting on Bougainville Copper Limited and the Panguna mine. The reports vary notably. Some suggest an opening date of 2020. Others suggest...
View ArticleJimmy Maladina’s Australian silk recruited by PM O’Neill to lead Duma/Pok...
Having promised a Commission of Inquiry, under the predicted Chairmanship of (Rtd) Judge Graham Ellis, who cut his teeth in the National and Supreme Court during the 1990s, working a number of high...
View ArticlePolice complaint against Ministers over Madang land deals
Nixon Duban (left) and Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. Source: Radio New Zealand A lawyer in the Papua New Guinea city of Madang has laid a criminal complaint over alleged breaches of process by...
View ArticleFilipino Multinational Serving up Condoms and Tuna to Papua New Guinean...
Do you enjoy condoms with your tuna? No? Best steer clear of RD Tuna Canners Ltd For years we have known that the Filipino multinational RD Tuna, has no respect for Papua New Guinea workers. The late...
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