Juffa criticizes Housing Corporation
EMTV Oro Governor, Gary Juffa has criticized the National Housing Corporation for eviction people without having alternate plans. Governor Juffa said NHC has a record of carrying out evictions and then...
View ArticleUnder The Umbrella: Tax Haven Cocktails
Mike Seccombe | The Global Mail Australia is cleaning up some of its own tax-avoiders, but for those with money to launder – especially from Papua New Guinea – it’s a nice place to wash up. Australia...
View ArticleFormer MP to evict thousands of Port Moresby residents for ‘K230m’ development
Dr Kristian Lasslett* Some of the Art Centre community’s younger residents. Image courtesy of Philippe Schneider. Here we go again! This time it’s the 3,754 residents of Port Moresby’s Arts Centre...
View ArticlePNG’s media reeling from Government crackdown on dissent
Source: Radio New Zealand Papua New Guinea’s media are reeling from a crackdown by the Government as observers say media freedom is “non-existent”. Three senior journalists were recently demoted by the...
View ArticleAusAID adviser to ABG has financial links to Rio Tinto
Ex-combatants on Bougainville have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Autonomous Bougainville Government, its leaders and advisors over the public consultation process on new Mining laws and...
View ArticleMCC not the only major Chinese enterprise on World Bank corruption blacklist
The PNG government should be wary about its new open door policy towards Chinese companies and loans. Two years ago Chinese state-owned corporation MCC, operator of the controversial Ramu nickel mine...
View ArticleCOI Finance Department: Lest we forget
By PNG Echo ‘Cabal’ (Wikipedia) “… is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests… often by intrigue … The use of this term usually...
View ArticleNow this is how you protest against corruption!
Congratulations to the Lae City Council workers! Now we need their protest to inspire more Papua New Guineans to get involved in peaceful direct action against the corruption that is stealing our...
View ArticleBoth O’Neill and Namah need to be held to account
By Joseph Kapone I am making my comment now as a concerned Papua New Guinean who is watching helplessly as our two top leaders in the likes of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and Opposition Leader Belden...
View ArticleImportant progress for anti-corruption campaign: Tiensten found guilty
Former PNG minister Paul Tiensten guilty of misappropriation of grant to kickstart Travel Air By Liam Fox on ABC Papua New Guinea’s former planning minister has been found guilty of misappropriation...
View ArticleThe SABL Commission of Inquiry reports
Hundred of stories waiting to be told of corruption, illegality, fraud and incompetence. 5.2 million hectares of land have been stolen from the people and unlawfully vested in the hands of foreign...
View ArticleSABL Case Study No.1: Puka Temu and the Changhae Tapioka cassava project
SABL Commission of Inquiry Report 1: Pages 174-198 “This is total alienation of customary land and we find the transaction to be highly irregular, improper and unlawful and defeat [sic] the whole...
View ArticleAttempt at major corruption at the Medical Supplies branch Health Dept
Will the Prime Minister step in and stop this attempt at grand theft before it is approved? By Profs Nakapi Tefuarani & Glen Mola (PNG Medical Association) There have been many reports in the...
View ArticleSABL Case Study No.2: Victory Plantations and Edward Studdy
SABL Commission of Inquiry Report 1: Pages 198-206 “We found serious flaws and irregularities in the granting of the SABL… Not all the landowners gave their consent to lease out their land… the whole...
View ArticleSABL Case Study No.3: Tutuman and the Danfu Extension
SABL Commission of Inquiry Report 2: Pages 359-384 “The C.O.I recommends that SABL Portion 817C be revoked on the basis that the integrity of the Lands Group Registration process and the Land...
View ArticleSABL Commission of Inquiry Case Study 4: Department of Lands corrupt and...
“With corrupt government officials from implementing agencies riding shotgun for them, opportunistic loggers masquerading as agro-forestry developers are prowling our countryside, scoping...
View ArticleParaka scam reports finally released
Forty-two months after PNGexposed first published them – The Paraka Scams: K780 million stolen from the people – the courts have finally sanctioned the release of the Finance Department Commission of...
View ArticleSABL Case Study No.5: Belden Namah and Bewani Palm Oil Limited
SABL Commission of Inquiry Report 1: Pages 125-143 ”What was particularly unacceptable … is the fact that this SABL was granted to an entity which had already been sold for ‘cash’ by its original one...
View ArticleSABL Case Study No.6: Turubu and Sepik Oil Palm Plantations
SABL Commission of Inquiry Report 2: Pages 822-865 “The Land Investigation Report was flawed because it failed to ascertain the majority consent of the whole landgroups [sic]…” [p864] SOPPL is a...
View ArticleSABL Case Study No.7: Rimbunan Hjau, Kila Pat and the unlawful Port Moresby...
SABL Commission of Inquiry Report 1: Pages 51-67 “The SABL was invalid and improper.” [p62] “The DLPP file contains three different versions of the Land Investigation report (LIR) by two different...
View Article