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'I represent myself': PMIZ landowners

 

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THIS IS RD=CMIZ Up

Source: "Red Soil"

Word on the streets of Madang is that the RD Tuna Cannery in the province made a 2 Million Kina loss on exported frozen loins last year. Why that is so is unknown, but the impact caused the recruitment of more women very poorly paid as usual, doing a lot of standing, and unnecessary deductions made to their already low pay packages.

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Locally shot film on tuna industry gets international award

By Joey Tau on PNG Edge

Canning Paradise was awarded the "Best in Festival" award from the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF).

Canning Paradise is a feature-length documentary about one of the world's most prized resources, and those who pay for it.

Decades of overfishing by the global tuna industry have now pushed the final frontiers to the waters of PNG.

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PMIZ on ice

Midweek Chronicle

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What are the real costs of PMIZ?

Who should be our maritime caretakers?

Nancy Sullivan | Nineteen Years and Counting

This is a photo from yesterday sent to me by Racheal Shisei of a young whale caught in RD Tuna netting and obviously left to die offshore in Madang.

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PMIZ provokes more land problems

Last Thursday two groups of people came head to head over who really owns the land area on which the former Milinat plantation was on.

Mabonob villagers clashed with some settlers brought on the land by claimant Sali Tagau.

The villagers carried placards calling for the arrest of Mr Tagau and blaming the PMIZ for provoking this fight. The Mabonob villagers said, “this land ownership title is being disputed in court and several restraining orders have been issued to Mr Tagau but he continues to ignore these orders.”

“He must be arrested,” they said.

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PMIZ plans flawed by lack of power and water supplies

Grandeous plans for the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone in Madang, which is meant to house 10 new tuna processing factories, are fatally flawed as the designs do not include a power plant or water supplies. 

This means that although the government is saying the project can now go ahead (see story below) in order to appease the Chinese, the PMIZ is in fact dead in the water.

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Courts put PMIZ on hold indefinitely

By Andrew Pascoe

The state’s controversial Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ) project – a USD$235 million proposal to develop a free trade industrial zone in Madang – is officially on hold.

Madang Court today ordered all progress on the PMIZ project to cease until the court makes a decision on whether the proposed development has sufficient legal grounds to proceed.

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Ex-Minister still pushing PMIZ

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No new deal for PMIZ

From PMIZ Watcher

Community leaders from the site of the troubled proposed Pacific Marine Industrial Zone have reacted angrily to newspaper stories that their communities have agreed to allow the project to procede, as reported on Monday.

Ebert Kaing who is the Program Manager-Education at Sumkar District living in Rempi village and a landowner said, "there are more issues which needs to be addressed before the PMIZ agreement signing". 

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