Joint Media Release:  ACT NOW!, Pacific Network on Globilization (PANG) and the Social Empowerment and Education Program (SEEP).

Pacific Island Countries have been told they should effectively abandon the protection afforded by the precautionary principle to allow the development of experimental seabed mining in the region.

John Numapo (Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Special Purpose Agriculture and Business Leases) has said in an interview with Radio Australia that the Final Commission of Inquiry report is almost ready to be released. The report with the recommendations will be handed to whoever is the Prime Minister after the current elections, he says.

John Numapo (Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Special Purpose Agriculture and Business Leases) has said in an interview with Radio Australia that the Final Commission of Inquiry report is almost ready to be released. The report with the recommendations will be handed to whoever is the Prime Minister after the current elections he says.

In the meantime, we are publishing all the transcripts from the Commission hearings.

John Numapo (Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Special Purpose Agriculture and Business Leases) has said in an interview with Radio Australia that the Final Commission of Inquiry report is almost ready to be released. The report with the recommendations will be handed to whoever is the Prime Minister after the current elections, he says.

John Numapo (Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Special Purpose Agriculture and Business Leases) has siad in an interview with Radio Australia that the Final Commission of Inquiry report is almost ready to be released. The report with the recommendations will be handed to whoever is the Prime Minister after the current elections. 

By Simon Eroro and Melissa Martin

via Radio Australia

Tens of thousands of people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province are having their food security undermined by illegal fishing, making recovery from recent floods more difficult.

By ELLEN TIAMU

THE country is expected to expe­rien­ce indefinite power outages when more than 2,000 PNG Power Ltd staff stage a protest starting today.
It could extend past the start of voting in the general election on Saturday.
Highlands union representative Cle­ment Ravini said yesterday in Lae:

“The sit-down protest will go on for as long as it takes to get the attention of the (Public Enterprises) minister (Sir Mekere Morauta).”

Partners to Act Now's Pacific 20,000 Signatures Initiative Against Experimental SeaBed Mining are in Rio de Janeiro attending various events to raise the profile of the initiative. Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator of Pacific Network on Globalization (PNG) from Fiji, talked at Major Groups press briefing on 13 June at Rio+20.