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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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Magistrate Pindipia detained by fraud squad

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By PNG Echo. Port Moresby, 30 July: 10:54 pm Magistrate Pindipia was tonight picked up by police from Appollo Restaurant, East Boroko, and taken to Fraud Squad Headquarters where he is detained and being questioned in relation to a document that ordered the release of Paul Paraka who, until the production of the controversial document, was in police custody on charges relating to a K242 million fraud. The document that facilitated Mr Paraka’s premature release emanated from Mr Pindipia and is regarded by the investigating authorities as “highly inappropriate.” Furthermore, a police spokesperson said that it is suspected that such Continue reading Magistrate Pindipia detained by fraud squad→

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