Month: June 2014

Koim: Politically incorrect

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By PNG Echo As I put pen to paper, some Papua New Guineans, this morning, will march on the PNG Parliament in protest against the Prime Minister’s refusal to step aside from his post and submit to the arrest warrant taken out last week. It is their right to do so and I hope the protest goes well. As far as timing goes, the march coincides with a sitting of parliament – meaning that the police have more powers under laws that protect MPs to ensure that parliament is not interfered with. It makes the situation more potentially volatile than Continue reading Koim: Politically incorrect→

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Nature hates a vacuum: The potential demise of Peter O’Neill

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By PNG Echo Papua New Guinea has entered very dangerous political waters. The courts were aware of this when they cautioned restraint after the hearing to stay the arrest warrant of Peter O’Neill. – Yet both sides are going about, willy nilly, doing the very things that they were cautioned against and which may just land them with a contempt of court charge? The retired Police Commissioner, Sir Tom Kulunga, was recently convicted of contempt and received a sentence of seven months hard labour.   Not even this has deterred them. The Prime Minister’s actions are easily explainable – he’s Continue reading Nature hates a vacuum: The potential demise of Peter O’Neill→

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