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Judge slams Lands department corruption and calls for police action

On 12 Mar, 2015 By Elizabeth1

Judge puts the law into practise and corrects corruption doers especially in the Lands Department and is adament that the police look into cases of corrupt land deals. It's about 'bloody' time! RUN the talk, we've been walking far too long!

Photo: Judge Ambeng Kandakasi. Photo courtesy of PNGLoop

Source: PNG Exposed

Police make arrests over mine raid

On 11 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source:The National

POLICE have arrested five men in connection with the raid and destruction of properties last week at the Ramu Nickel’s Kurumbukari mine site in Madang.

A Madang police source said the five were understood to be the main instigators of the raid last Monday.

The source said two of the people arrested were employed in the company’s community affairs department, two from a security firm plus a senior employee.

Sixty Families Left Homeless

On 21 May, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: EMTV Online

Why I Give 'bout Paga Hill

On 18 May, 2012 By Klaireh

By Scott Waide

The Paga hill story isn’t just about the demolition of houses and the displacement of families.

It is not about "stupid, uneducated people who should go back to their villages.” No. It’s about a global profit driven economic and political system that dictates that profits are far more important than human lives.

Whose Law is it anyway?

On 25 Apr, 2012 By Klaireh

O’arise all you children of this land…otherwise *bai yu kisim pen!

Sound familiar? In our uniquely Papua New Guinean way, law is something that we learn (more like taught to us) at a very early stage in our lives. We are taught the boundaries of acceptable behavior almost from the moment we are aware and can decide our actions.

Cops Threaten to Blow up journo

On 08 Mar, 2012 By Anonymous (not verified)

Source: Post Courier

By STAFF REPORTERS

A journalist was assaulted and threatened to be blown up with a hand grenade by police in Port Moresby yesterday.
Patrick Talu, a young journalist and the Business Editor for the South Pacific Post (Post-Courier) was shown a hand grenade by a policeman who was armed with an M16 rifle and ordered to leave Unagi Oval or he would be blown up with the hand grenade.

Police use teargas to clear PNG landowner protest

On 07 Mar, 2012 By Klaireh

Updated 6 March 2012, 21:07 AEST

Liam Fox, Port Moresby

Police in Papua New Guinea's capital have used tear gas and fired shots in the air to clear a crowd of angry land owners.

There were rowdy scenes outside the building that houses the Prime Minister's department in Port Moresby.

Hundreds of land owners from PNG's Southern Highlands gathered there demanding the government pay them millions of dollars in outstanding grants.

Cops Back at Log Camp

On 06 Mar, 2012 By Klaireh

Source: Post Courier

Tue March 6, 2012

Have police gone against a direct order not to be deployed at logging camps?

It seems the picturesque Jacquinot Bay in the West Pomio area of East New Britain Province has not seen the last of them yet.

Information received from prominent local landowner Paul Pavol yesterday was that up to four policemen are back at the logging camp at Drina.

Govt awaits decision from EC on polls

On 28 Feb, 2012 By Klaireh

Source: Post Courier

THE national elections – only nine weeks away - will only be deferred on the advice from the PNG Electoral Commission and the Police.

Prime Minister Peter O’Neill told Post-Courier that his Government or Parliament would not rush into deferring the national elections because of concerns surrounding the update of the common roll as well as security for the polls.

Mondiai vows to find out why cops beat up pregnant woman

On 23 Feb, 2012 By Klaireh

Source: The National, Thursday 23rd Febuary 2012

By GABRIEL LAHOC

POLICE will find out why six officers allegedly assaulted a seven-month pregnant woman then abandoned her on a roadside.

Lae metropolitan commander Supt Nema Mondiai deplored the assault after the woman, Nora Duran, reported the matter to the police. He has advised Duran to lodge a formal complaint with the police ombudsman.

“I was not aware of this incident but I don’t condone such activities.

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