Month: December 2014

Ombudsman’s Powers to be decided by Supreme Court.

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By PNG Echo Plaintiffs, Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill and Acting Secretary of Treasury, Mr Dairi Vele had their application to the National Court upheld today at Waigani. The application was pertaining to a loan acquired by government to purchase Oilsearch shares – a situation that gave rise to certain directions by the defendants, the Ombudsman’s Commission (OC ) whose constitutionality remain in dispute. Earlier this year, proceedings were instigated for a judicial review of the Ombudsman Commission directions to stop payments on said loan The National Court, at that time, stayed the directions of the OC in order that repayments Continue reading Ombudsman’s Powers to be decided by Supreme Court.→

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My comment: A two-party system: The current opportunity

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Governing PNG is taking a back seat to power mongering – which seems to be a chronic symptom of the current system. Maybe now is the time for the People’s National Congress to govern in their own right – and for the rest to form the opposition. It would serve to cement policy and give the opposition an opportunity to formulate real alternate policy rather than just the empty rhetoric that passes for party platforms. For example, while the UBS loan has been questioned because of it’s alleged breaches of the constitution and processes – whether it was a sound  Continue reading My comment: A two-party system: The current opportunity→

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