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Courts gag Sonja Barry Ramoi and Noel Anjo Kolao

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By PNG Echo Lawyers for Prime Minister Peter O’Neill have today obtained interlocutory orders from Waigani National Court (ex parte) preventing Sonja Barry Ramoi and Noel Anjo Kolao publishing anything defamatory against the Prime Minister (including on the internet or social media fora) until a defamation case can be heard. This follows the filing of 16 separate defamation charges against the duo by the Prime Minister in the National Court on 2 April. Today’s decision was handed down by Justice Kandakasi and a date of 24 April was set when the matter will return to court. Judge Kandaskasi ordered that Continue reading Courts gag Sonja Barry Ramoi and Noel Anjo Kolao→

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The Blame Game: DSIP Funds

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 District Services Improvement Program (DSIP): is it an effective means of devolved funding to better reach the people or is it a members’ personal slush fund? Is DSIP funding (or the withholding of it) a way for the executive government to reward or penalise Members of Parliament at whim – and does it become a handy scapegoat for penalised MPs who haven’t delivered nor were ever going to? PNG Echo explores these questions. An urgent application to the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea has been lodged by Belden Namah (and/or the Opposition) and will be heard on March 14. Continue reading The Blame Game: DSIP Funds→

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