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

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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The devastating import of Namah’s court case.

By PNG Echo This week, Task Force Sweep (TFS) was scheduled to ‘interview’ Finance Minister, James Marape and Treasurer, Don Polye. At this time, they would have been arrested for their part in the Paraka matter. Task Force Sweep’s investigations have uncovered enough evidence of the pair’s alleged involvement to make this a certainty. Following the Tiensten conviction, these arrests would have marked another watershed moment in the fight against corruption in PNG – a real indication that the tide of fortune was turning against corruption in PNG. But I didn’t happen, and there’s only one man to blame –

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