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The week that was ending 20 January 2014. The day the circus came to town

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By PNG Echo More sideshows have been added this week to ‘Belden’s Big Top’, the (quasi) anti corruption circus that opened early in January with Belden performing the ‘Arrest the Prime Minister Dance’. This clumsy dance was clearly self-choreographed, with Belden soon stumbling on his own amateur dance steps as the professionals (lawyers) proved to the arbitrators (courts) that the dance was unworthy. And although, Blind Freddy could see his footprints all over the choreography, Belden chose to hide his light under a bushel and attributed it to four of PNGs finest. It was a poison chalice that he’d handed Continue reading The week that was ending 20 January 2014. The day the circus came to town→

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Hallo 2014 – Political stunts and more violence against women.

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By PNG Echo. PNG Echo is officially back to work after the Christmas break. With so many things of import occurring in early January, it proved a bit of a ‘Clayton’s’ break.  What happened to the usual practice of Papua New Guniean MPs exiting the country for the summer break and only returning in February for the first sitting of  parliament (and sometimes not even that soon)? Political shenanigns Early January saw a dangerous political manoeuvre by the Opposition Leader (were the Casinos closed?) as he insisted on arrest warrants, sworn out at the end of 2013 (of which no one Continue reading Hallo 2014 – Political stunts and more violence against women.→

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