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The Kramer Effect

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By PNG Echo The people of Papua New Guinea have always been Kramer’s pawns. He rode to power on the back of popular issues that he promised to solve, including the promise to bring powerful (and allegedly corrupt) people to justice, especially the then Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill who, at the time, was getting a lot of flak (and I do mean a lot) on the pages of the country’s social media over many of his more controversial decisions. Kramer took the temperature of the nation and gave them a placebo – for which he was almost deified, and he Continue reading The Kramer Effect→

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O’Neill aggrieved, says Judge – arrest warrant stayed.

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By PNG Echo National Courts, Waigani, 18 July, 2014 The current arrest warrant on Prime Minister, O’Neill, has been stayed pending the hearing and determination of a Supreme Court reference. This morning, Justice Gavara-Nanu after hearing arguments on behalf of the State, the Police and the Prime Minister, granted leave for Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill to judicially review the decision of the Chief Magistrate. The Chief Magistrate, in an earlier decision in the District Court, had refused an application to allow Police Commissioner Vaki to withdraw the arrest warrant against the Prime Minister.

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