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15/04/2022

By DALE LUMA, GYNNIE KERO and CHARLES MOI
PRIME Minister James Marape yesterday changed the portfolios of three Cabinet ministers, appointed two MPs to fill vacant positions, saying the changes are needed before the issue of writs on April 28.
“We thought a rotation of those key ministries at this time are very important leading up to the election period,” he said.
The three changes are:

BRYAN Kramer moved from Justice to Immigration and Border Security;
PILA Niningi moved from Inter-government Relations to Justice;
WESTLEY Nukundj moved from Immigration and Border Security to Inter-Government Relations.
The two new ministers are:

HENRY Amuli replacing the late William Samb as Commerce and Industry minister; and,
POGIO Ghate replacing Wera Mori (who has left the Pangu Pati) as Environment Conservation and Climate Change Minister.
Marape said it had nothing to do with a lack of performance.
“All three of them (Kramer, Niningi, Nukundj) have performed very well in these key sectors but I felt that those sectors in the election period need to have a little bit of change,” Marape said.
On the need to replace Mori, Marape said he was told by his Pangu Party council and caucus “(who) I work with and take instructions from” that Mori be relinquished from his portfolio.
“I had the sad task of asking (Mori) to be decommissioned from Cabinet,” he said.
“He left Pangu to be the leader of the Country Party.
“The portfolio was conferred to him as a member of the Pangu party. (It) needs to come back to a Pangu party member.”
On why the changes were needed close to the general election, Marape said “the executive government functions all the way until the writs are returned. And that’s a few months down the line”.
Commenting on Marape’s move, Ialibu-Pangia MP and former prime minister Peter O’Neill said it was a sign that the Government did not have control of the country’s affairs “and is now panicking because elections are around the corner”.
“In 15 days (issue of writs on Apr

25/02/2022

PNG breaking News stop misleading people with wrong information.

06/02/2022

2022 NGE a game of political parties.

In Westminster political system, national (Federal) Elections are party centralized. Indirectly, in NGEs, the people mandate a government. The leader of the political party which wins most parliamentary seats is the elect head of govt (Prime Minister).
In PNG Politics, the party solidarity has diminished over the years. So many new political parties emerged over the decades as some prominent ones loose political momentum.
Contemporary PNG Politics is at crossroads since the political restructure in the mid 90s when we dissolved the provincial government system (Province Assembly).
MPs migrate to suit their conveniences. All third-parties (Political parties that never won any majority seats in NGEs and formed government in their life time of existence) play dice in the havens created by this inconsistency of party solidarity.

Moreover, in 2022 National General Elections, Papua New guineans will mandate a government. The most protuberant political parties in the recent decades of PNG Politics are National Alliances Party (NA), People's National Congress Party (PNC) and Pangu Party.

Which ever wins majority seats forms government with coalitions with others.

As it is in representative democracy, when the Governor General (Symbol of the monarch; head of state) dissolves parliament, their mandate will come to an end. The power goes back to the people.
Either we sell our power (birth right) or use it profitably, is a matter of choices in a short while.
May God bless Papua New guinea.

06/02/2022

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Beijing on Thursday for the opening of the Winter Games and will not be traveling to France next week for an Indo-Pacific summit, his office said on Sunday.

06/09/2021

*Does Mp Funding Work Politically in PNG*
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*By Maholopa Laveil and Michael Kabuni on Sep 06, 2021 06:00 am*

*In Papua New Guinea, District Services Improvement Program (DSIP) funding, given to 89 MPs representing open seats, is often talked of as a tool used to maintain government coalitions and increase an MP’s chances of being re-elected.*

*In this post we investigate whether the funds really do help hold together governing coalitions and assist MPs in their quest for re-election.*

*It has been argued that DSIP funds were introduced as a tool for holding together political coalitions. Their popularity among MPs is thought to stem from their utility as a means of rewarding and expanding an MP’s support base.*

*As DSIP data is now available, it is possible to test if these beliefs are actually correct. Is there a relationship between DSIP funds and government tenure? And between DSIP funds and the overall election rate of open MPs?*

*At first glance, the first chart appears to show a positive correlation between DSIP volumes (the sum of real DSIP funds disbursed in each year they were PM) and prime ministers’ tenures.*

*Governments have lasted longer on average when real (inflation*
*-adjusted) DSIP volumes have been higher.*

*However, this relationship is driven entirely by two outliers: Sir Michael Somare’s tenure from 2002 to 2011, and Peter O’Neill’s tenure from 2011 to 2019.*

*If these outliers are removed, there is no clear relationship between real DSIP funds and a PM’s longevity (r = –0.2).*

*Somare’s longevity does not seem to be a direct product of DSIP funds, rather it is best explained by the restrictions imposed by the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates 2003 (OLIPPAC).*

*Among other things, OLIPPAC prevented the movement of MPs from one party to another, and required MPs to support the PM they voted for after national elections, if there was a vote of no confidence.*

19/08/2021

DON POMB POLYE RECIEVED THE FOLLOWING TWO ( 2) THREATS/WARNING FROM THE MOBILE NUMBER # 74623852 on the 18th August 2021.

THREAT/WARNING NO # 1.

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Good night Honorable Polye .
This is just a friendly reminder to you.

You should appreciate the fact that you were given a great opportunity on a golden plate to retain your Seat .

Take it with pride and humble yourself .

You have suffered enough with great pains and loses to yourself and your families in those four years ..

You have lost many important things in your life while out of the Political arena ..

Now with just few months away before the 2022 NGE , You have to concentrate on how you will make it back in to Parliament....

If you keep barking like a dog at the UBS Loan of enquiry , You won't get anything out from it...
You are simply wasting your time and efforts..

Stop calling names and destroying the reputations of hard working PNGns...Mipela nogat dinau wantim yu.
Na mipela no stealim meri blo yu ...

Final warning to you .
Stay in your lane coz you don't wanna follow the footsteps of your late brothers from the Highlands .
Tankyu

28/07/2021

...............BREAKING NEWS.............

She passes on this morning.
From C A N C E R.
Yes C A N C E R. Repeating CANCER! CANCER! CANCER!
Loss of another young life.
We continue our appeal to the past & current Government, cancer facilities should be the priority agenda. Nothing else.
If work has begun, fast track it. We can't continue to watch young girls at their prime age and our mothers go like this.
Rest easy young lady Shirley Banjoi.

03/01/2021

By HELEN TARAWA
PRIME Minister James Marape will receive the body of the late Sir Mekere Morauta at Jackson International Airport when it arrives from Brisbane, Australia today.
He will lie in state at Parliament House from Monday where members of the public can pay their last respect before he is buried at Independence Hill next Friday.
Moresby South MP Justin Tkatchenko said Lady Rosalyn Morauta, son James and other family members would be going into quarantine from today.
“Lady Rosalyn wanted to ensure that all procedures were followed under the Covid-19 protocols,” he said.
“On Friday Jan 8, the state funeral will be held at the Sioni Kami Memorial Church from 10am to noon.
“The casket will then be escorted by family and selected group of close friends to Independence Hill where he would be laid to rest.”
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has urged the people of Port Moresby to accord due respect to Sir Mekere when his body arrives today.
“Those who can make it (to the airport) for the arrival of the body today, I encourage them to turn up.”
Meanwhile, he also urged the people to keep out of trouble going into the New Year.
He commended the people for the quiet festive season so far which should be maintained as the body of the late Sir Mekere arrives.
“Our people have been generally outstanding, there’s been some minor incidents but everything has been good,” Parkop said.
“I want to encourage them to maintain that going into the new year. These two events coming together is a coincidence but something that we can all look forward to.
“I would like to call on our people to welcome the New Year in a peaceful way.”

16/12/2020

If Hon. Sam Basil and other MPS did not cross floor, PMJM will not be a Prime Minister.
So stop discriminate our leaders💕

08/12/2020

The National Government through the Department of National Planning and Monitoring has given K10 million to the PNG Truckers Association on Friday.

14/10/2020

Leaders clash over ‘motion of no confidence’

IALIBU-Pangia MP Peter O’Neill has advised Prime Minister James Marape to “get to work” instead of “jumping at shadows and panicking about being removed” from power.
The former prime minister was responding to Marape’s statement yesterday that any move to oust him through a motion of no confidence in Parliament would fail because he had the numbers in his coalition government.
Marape, who became prime minister on May 30 last year, said people must remember that “we removed the People’s National Congress-led government which Peter O’Neill and Belden Namah who were intoxicated with greed and power had illegally formed on Aug 2, 2011”.
He accused O’Neill of being behind the move to oust him in a motion of no confidence in Parliament.
O’Neill told The National yesterday Marape “has been running around to the provinces handing out cheques to MPs hoping to save himself”.
“But trying to buy political support will not restore jobs that have been lost,” O Neill said.
“The country is desperate for leadership and this means real action and economic recovery plan.
“A competent government would control spending and get resource projects moving right now.
“There are K130 billion in projects awaiting negotiation. They are sitting on the shelf going nowhere.
“Porgera mine has to re-open. The Papua LNG needs to get moving. P’nyang must be finalised and Wafi-Golpu put back on track. All these deadlines Marape set for himself have been missed.”
O’Neill said the economy was in a recession with people losing jobs.
“This is hurting our people in every district and in every province,” he said.
O’Neill said people were “sick and tired” of being told to accept the pain Marape had caused.
“He has lost focus and is spending money well outside the budget while revenue is decreasing,” O’Neill said. “He just keeps borrowing billions and billions of Kina.”
On Marape’s comment about O’Neill’s “illegal takeover of the Somare-led government in 2011”, he

17/09/2020

MOROBE police commander Supt Alex N’Drasal has told police station commanders in the province to identify police reservists recruited in the 90s and tell them to go home.
Police Commissioner David Manning recently issued a directive that all reservists be kicked out of the force, except those assigned to certain organisations.
N’Drasal said Manning’s directive exempted the 500 recruited to man rural posts in Morobe.
The constabulary took the step as a cost-cutting measure.
“This means that those police reservists and auxiliaries recruited in the 90s will have to go,” N’Drasal said.
“We are now identifying those people.
He said once they were identified, a parade would be organised to acknowledge their contribution to enforcing law and order over the years.
“These reservists and auxillaries have done a tremendous job in policing the community both in urban and rural areas and they deserve to be recognised for that.”
N’Drasal said they would have to fill the vacancies as law and order issues could escalate if police visibility decreased.
He said although there were instances when reservists had done things to tarnish the name of the force, the efforts they put into policing should be acknowledged.
He also said they did not have any refresher training since recruitment and that their terms had already expired.
Source: The National

17/09/2020

By HEZRON KISING
A MOTHER-of-two who allegedly sent n**e pictures of herself on her mobile phone to a man has been granted bail while waiting for police to complete their investigation.
Lae Committal Court Magistrate Tera Dawai told Wendy Moewe, 25, from Kabwum district in Morobe on Monday that police needed to provide sufficient evidence if the case was to proceed to trial in the National Court. “If there is enough evidence after police investigation, the case will be sent to trial at the National Court. But if not, then the court can acquit her,” Magistrate Dawai said.
The court extended her K500 bail and adjourned the case to Dec 14.
Police alleged that Moewe:

intentionally and without lawful excuse and justification, used an electronic system to transmit pornographic pictures of herself to another Facebook user in contravention of the Cybercrime Code Act 2016; and,

used an electronic device to produce six pornographic pictures of herself contravening the Cybercrime Code Act 2016.

Police alleged that the offences were committed on Jan 2018, between January and December 2019 at Kimbe, and on May 18 and 19 this year in Lae.
She allegedly took n**e pictures of herself using a phone and sent them to a Facebook user named Joshua Beekay who later threatened her he was going to share the pictures with others if she stopped sending him more pictures of herself.
Police alleged that her husband had warned her to stop contacting the man on social media but she continued fearing he would share her pictures with others.
She was handed over to police by her husband’s family on Aug 26.
Source: The National

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