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Tall tales and true: Strategically yours

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By Susan Merrell I’m a journalist, people tell me things – lots of things. The information ranges from the factual to the fanciful and everything in between. Some want to see justice done through the media, others just want their story told, while some try to use the media, through me, for mischievous purposes and for all sorts of reasons, including to make me appear foolish and gullible by publishing their lies. So I’m cautious, but just occasionally a story is run past me that is so fantastical, so amusing that it would be a travesty not to share it. Continue reading Tall tales and true: Strategically yours→

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Task Force Sweep’s integrity compromised.

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By PNG Echo The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) has raised serious questions about the integrity of anti-corruption agency, Task Force Sweep (TFS) and its Chairman, Sam Koim, after, TFS exonerated expatriate businessman Gudmundur Fridriksson and his companies and associates who are the developers of the controversial Paga Hill estate. In a press statement accompanying a 57-page report released today, Dr Kristian Laslett, who heads ISCI’s Papua New Guinea Research, claims that errors in the Task Force Sweep assessment are “seismic” and “can’t be put down to mere ignorance or inexperience.” In October 2012, ISCI lodged a complaint with Task Continue reading Task Force Sweep’s integrity compromised.→

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