corruption

ACT NOW! welcomes announcement on ICAC

On 31 Aug, 2012 By Klaireh

PRESS RELEASE: 30th August 2012

Community advocacy group, ACT NOW! has welcomed the announcement by the Governor General that the new government will establish an Independent Commission Against Corruption.

"ACT NOW! is very pleased the government of Peter O’Neill has pledged to establish an ICAC and is promising to take effective action on corruption”, says Effrey Dademo, Program Manager for ACT NOW!

Copacabana: A story of the earth summit, Rio +20

On 06 Aug, 2012 By Klaireh

by Rosa Koian July 2012

FROM the 10th floor of Brasil Apartmentos at 4am I sat quietly and waited for the sun to make its way out of the sea.

This was not an eviction it was a crime - The Paga Hill demolition

On 21 May, 2012 By rait man

Dr Kristian Lasslett*

Public Account Committee slammed 'corrupt' Paga Hill land deals

On 14 May, 2012 By rait man

While police are continuing to facilitate the forceable eviction of people living on Paga Hill in Port Moresby despite the protests of their local MP*, we should remember the Public Accounts Committee has already found the land acquisition by the developer was completely corrupt and fraudulent.

These are excerts from the PAC findings as recorded in their 2009 Report to Parliament on the inquiry into the Department of Lands:

Portion 1597 Milinch Granville, FourMil, Moresby At Paga Hill – Grant to Paga Hill Development Company Ltd.

15 Bridges, 3 Ships, a Politician and Polisyndrome

On 20 Mar, 2012 By Klaireh

Today is Tuesday the 20^th of March 2012, the current parliament is meant to be having its final session for the year 2012! Now how is that for excitement?! Usually the routine is that if you had an exciting weekend then the week should be relatively mediocre, alas it seems that this won’t be the case for us here in this wonderfully exciting country of ours.

New video: Rising from the rubble. The theft of Oro Restoration funds

On 08 Feb, 2012 By rait man

"Five years after the Cyclone Guba disaster devastated the Oro Province, Many of the province's vital transport infrastructure remain in ruin. Many people continue to live in care centers and face water shortages and other difficulties

Somare has left Papua New Guinea a broken nation

On 03 Feb, 2012 By rait man

By Allan Patience*

Sydney Morning Herald

THE primary cause of the recent ''mutiny'' by sections of the Papua New Guinea defence force is a mix of soldiers' anger overlow pay, their substandard living conditions, associated low morale, and grudges against some of their senior officers.

This has led some of them to back Sir Michael Somarein his quest for his reinstatement as prime minister, naively believing that the dishonoured promises of the past will somehow be honoured this time around.

Land grab extends to Vanuatu where a whole island conservation site is up for sale

On 18 Jan, 2012 By rait man

By Len Garae

A person has to be so desperate that he is prepared to sell his or someone’s island for a mere Vt38 million or $AU400,000, says the Vanuatu Daily Post.

The amount is the price tag for the beautiful Turtle Island, approximately the size of Iiriki Island, which is located between Aore Island and Malo Island and is known as a popular picnic spot.

The Vanuatu SDA Mission has alerted Daily Post to the "For Sale" Notice for Turtle Island for $400,000.

Australia needs to stop laundering the proceeds of corruption

On 13 Jan, 2012 By rait man

With billions of dollars stolen from the public purse over the last decade in Papua New Guinea, Australia should be doing far more to stop the flow of stolen money from PNG into Australia.

Simon Kolm, the Chairman of PNG's Task Force Sweep which is tackling corruption among politicians and senior bureaucrats, recently described Australia as becoming 'another Cayman Islands' over the way it sucks up the proceeds of crime from PNG.*

Serious concerns raised about Pacific International Hospital

On 06 Jan, 2012 By tok stret

By Patrick Levo

Serious concerns have been expressed about the ‘modus operandi’ of the Pacific International Hospital in Port Moresby.

Public anger was raised against the private hospital after yet another avoidable death caused allegedly by the hospital’s uncompromising policy of “cash before treatment”.

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