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A lay-down misère: The PMs court case.

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By PNG Echo The Prime Minister played a winning hand. In fact, so good were his cards that he had that very rare commodity in a card game – a ‘lay-down misère’. A lay-down misère is a hand so good that it is played in full view of the other players with no risk.  It’s brazen and it’s shamelessly triumphant. However, you would be forgiven for thinking that the Prime Minister may have ‘stacked the deck’ by removing all the opponent’s trumps (Sam Koim, ITFS, Thomas Eluh, Kerenga Kua…) with one of the last being dissenting Solicitor-General, Ms Jubilee Tindiwi. Continue reading A lay-down misère: The PMs court case.→

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All of the 77 evil and corrupt SABL’s are cancelled.

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By PNG Echo Today will go down in the annals of PNG history as a day when something insightful, far-reaching and concrete was finally done about corrupt practises in PNG.  But this is not my story to tell – it belongs to all those that have fought tooth and nail to save the environment.  So over to you Tiffany Twivey-Nonggorr who writes: You want to talk about corruption fighting?  Well this government has just killed the biggest corrupt dealing of the past 10 years. During the Somare government, a heinous scheme of issuing SABLs over large forest areas was created Continue reading All of the 77 evil and corrupt SABL’s are cancelled.→

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