Gary Juffa
November 10 at 7:53 AM ·
My Rugby rant for today!
I am not surprised at the results of the Fiji PNG rugby match. During my brief term as a Chairman for PNGRFL I witnessed first hand such manipulation by faceless men who for some reason do not want PNG to be a part of the game at the highest level.
Diplomacy using sports is a very clever method of political influence. It’s very much at play here in PNG. Even our favourite sport is manipulated by foreign interests and we don’t even see it.
It is subtle but very much there. PNG will be suppressed in anyway shape or form. It has to remain dependent on guess who. Call it a conspiracy theory but the facts are there if you care to look. Review all the events and you will see that there is a clever and sinister method behind the effort to prevent PNG from ever becoming a force of any sort..even in sports especially in rugby league.
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Prime Minister Marape urges Oil Search to Pay Tax
Monday, 15 July 2019
Prime Minister Hon. James Marape, MP has urged Oil Search to pay
its fair share of tax due to the Government and people of Papua New Guinea.
Mr Marape was speaking at the occasion to mark the 90th
anniversary of Oil Search operations in the country last week.
He said Oil Search and PNG Government have been sharing this
journey for a long time since PNG gained independence in 1975.
“I like to believe that PNG governments in the past and present
have had quite a significant input into what Oil Search is today and without
that support, Oil Search shares will still be pegging along the same track as
Santos and many of the companies operating in the country.
“I want to pay my respects to the landowners of the entire areas
in which Oil Search has operated since 1929, some of them here tonight, me
included.
Prime Minister Marape Demonstrates True Leadership In Opting To Resign
Prime Minister Marape
demonstrates true leadership in opting to resign It is rare for a Prime
Minister, Premier or President of any given nation to opt to resign from office
instantly if found guilty of having committed a crime over controversial State
deals.
July 4, 2019
It is rare for a Prime Minister,
Premier or President of any given nation to opt to resign from office instantly
if found guilty of having committed a crime over controversial State deals.
In this case it is PNG’s newly
elected Prime Minister James Marape who genuinely told Parliament yesterday he
would not have any qualms at all about resigning from office if he is found
guilty of having breached any law relating to the scandalous K4 billion UBS
loan.
It only takes leaders of
integrity, standing and uprightness to openly declare their commitment to the
high office they hold to make such a bold and daring statement.
Too often leaders do not readily
want to declare themselves subject to the laws of the land but try their utmost
best to circumvent and prolong the legal process to ensure they are not
subjected to close and detailed scrutiny over scandalous deals involving public
money and resources.
The nation is actually watching
the new leadership right now in light of the revelations of the Ombudsman
Commission report into the UBS loan which highlight the path played by this
country’s top leaders and bureaucrats when the money was obtained for the
purposes of buying into Oil Search. The deal is so complex that the ordinary
person will not have any idea of how these sort of complicated arrangements are
made. Why it is complicated is because it involves mega dollars and
international financial advisers, financial institutions, banks, legal
companies and a host of specialist consultants.
Being the leader of a nation is a
special calling, a personal ambition, commitment and sometimes can be by
default depending on whatever the political circumstances that prevail at any
given time. Other reasons are intentional when there is a need to change the leadership
of a country where circumstances are no longer conducive for a functioning
democracy or where there is rampant corruption. Other reasons include financial
and economic crisis where the leadership of a nation blindly leads its populace
into believing well orchestrated announcements of resilient progress to the
contrary. Prime Minister Marape exited from the O’Neill government in protest
over certain decisions made by the executive government together with his now Deputy
Prime Minister Davis Steven.
They both protested actions which
seemingly were not in the national interest and perhaps did not adhere to the
legal requirements of the laws governing the country. They are both commended
for their brave stands despite their having had to forego their ministerial
privileges when they did so.
For Prime Minister Marape, he has
taken that conscious decision to step down from the land’s highest office if
found guilty of any wrongdoing over the UBS scandal. There has to be a bench
mark set for leadership requirements of this country where they have to resign
instantly from office when confronted with such controversial questions over
their ability to hold such high office.
From shocking tribal violence to strawberries for Singapore
By DANIEL KUMBON
How Grand Chief, Sir Peter Ipatas
rebuilt the old PHQ Office complex
Yesterday Chinese businessman Joe’s
three-story building was burned down at Keas.
Today this story has appeared in
PNG ATTITUDE which is published out of Australia. It highlights how the old PHQ
office complex which burned down in March 1993 could not be saved because there
was no fire service.
The story also highlights how Grand
Chief Sir Peter Ipatas replaced that gutted PHQ with a modern one.
And how Governor Sir Ipatas has
built other million kina projects in fighting zones, maintain stability and to
export strawberries over 26 years later.
Please read on….
Nobody believed the people of Enga Province would one day export premium
strawberries. To outsiders, it seemed their main achievement was to involve
themselves in tribal warfare.
That perception will hopefully be erased now that a market has been
established in Singapore for Enga strawberries and possibly other agricultural
products.
This is the result of hard work put in by Governor Sir Peter Ipatas who
encouraged Israeli company Innovative Agro Industries to partner with the Enga
Provincial Government to establish a K23 million vegetable project at Taluma in
the Sirunki area of Laiagam.
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