Why not Juffa?

By PNG Echo Don Polye, the Engan warlord, whose election result has been set aside on more than one occasion for suspected and proven tampering (including the most recent one), who is implicated in many corruption scandals including (but not only) the unresolved Paraka case, who has been rejected and sidelined by every government he’s served under, not least of all for incompetence, has been named as the alternative Prime Minister. Is this the best the Opposition can do? I’ve maintained (and am unlikely to resile from the position) that the Opposition is not a fit outfit to run a Continue reading Why not Juffa?

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The writing on the wall: The by-election has spoken.

By PNG Echo. There are many who gratuitously and arrogantly claim to speak for the silent majority in PNG. It’s an easy claim to make because this majority, by definition, does not usually indicate their preferences. Well… not usually, but sometimes they do, and when they do they speak clearly, unambiguously and unequivocally – and that’s exactly what they’ve done and it is contrary to what the noisy minority would have you believe. The Protests and protestors In Papua New Guinea, at present, students are being whipped into mass hysteria by opponents of the government – and it’s a big Continue reading The writing on the wall: The by-election has spoken.

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