SABLs – The way forward is here!

By PNG Echo The government has received the eagerly awaited blueprint of on how best to implement the findings of the Commission Of Inquiry into Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABLs). Under the Chief Secretary, Sir Manasupe Zurenoc, the SABL Implementation Task Force has completed its implementation recommendations on the 42 SABL reports and recommendations received from Commissioners Nicholas Mirou and John Numapo. The Commissioners recommendations were that 30 be cancelled, 11 be suspended, leaving only one legitimate lease. Sir Manasupe explained that laws dealing with SABLs were complex and ineffective to deal with the revocation of leases, hence the government Continue reading SABLs – The way forward is here!

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All of the 77 evil and corrupt SABL’s are cancelled.

By PNG Echo Today will go down in the annals of PNG history as a day when something insightful, far-reaching and concrete was finally done about corrupt practises in PNG.  But this is not my story to tell – it belongs to all those that have fought tooth and nail to save the environment.  So over to you Tiffany Twivey-Nonggorr who writes: You want to talk about corruption fighting?  Well this government has just killed the biggest corrupt dealing of the past 10 years. During the Somare government, a heinous scheme of issuing SABLs over large forest areas was created Continue reading All of the 77 evil and corrupt SABL’s are cancelled.

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