Today is Tuesday the 20th 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.
By: Eoin Blackwell, AAP
Papua New Guinea’s Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah has called on three judges, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, to resign.
In a full-page press statement in the Port Moresby-based The National newspaper, Mr Namah accuses Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia and Justices Nicholas Kirriwom and George Manuhu of “judicial corruption”.
Mr Namah also calls for the resignation of the registrar of the Supreme and National courts.
The National, Monday 19th March 2012
THE Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of passenger ferry mv Rabaul Queen is likely to get under way in the next 10 days now that its funding has been confirmed.
So it’s the end of another eventful week in Papua New Guinea. It seems scandal has made a new home here! From the wonderfully talented but somewhat confused environmentalist that works for a Canadian mining company (tsk tsk tsk-kids these days!) to the gifted far throwing politicians that can pitch a lot of mud all the while being bogged down in it.
By MALUM NALU
Tentative Election Program 2012
Source: Facebook (PNG Election 2012)
The ELECTORAL COMMISSION hereby announces to the general public the Tentative Election Program for the 2012 National Parliament General Elections as follows:
1. Issue of Writs: Friday 27th April, 2012 (4:00pm)
2. Nominations Close: Friday 04th May, 2012 (4:00pm)
3. Polling Starts: Saturday 23rd June, 2012
4. Polling Ends: Friday 06th July, 2012
5. Return of Writs of or before: Friday 27th July, 2012
Source: PNGexposed blog
Radio New Zealand
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.
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.