Peter Yama: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

On the website of the Special Parliamentary Committee Against Gender-Based Violence is a public submission by the mother of a GBV victim. In the submission, she states that it will never be safe for her daughter to come home to PNG. Peter Yama: The man whom Satan fears She says that her daughter cannot return from her hiding place overseas, because her daughter fears the violent wrath of the influential Yama family (the alleged perpetrators and her in-laws) whom the mother’s failed to name in the submission for that same reason – fear Under the circumstances, her fear is not Continue reading Peter Yama: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

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Nation building and Prime Minister Marape

By PNG Echo. Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been an independent, legal State for over 44 years. Nevertheless, it is arguable whether it is a ‘nation/state’. Pulling together such a diverse population into one entity to form a nation is fraught with pitfalls. There are profound challenges that have not entirely been met taking into account the Bougainville vote for independence, the independence rumblings from other quarters, such as (but not exclusively) New Ireland and the strong prevailing regionalism whereby regions are often in conflict with one another. The State of PNG needs to put much more effort into ‘nation Continue reading Nation building and Prime Minister Marape

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