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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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Nature hates a vacuum: The potential demise of Peter O’Neill

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By PNG Echo Papua New Guinea has entered very dangerous political waters. The courts were aware of this when they cautioned restraint after the hearing to stay the arrest warrant of Peter O’Neill. – Yet both sides are going about, willy nilly, doing the very things that they were cautioned against and which may just land them with a contempt of court charge? The retired Police Commissioner, Sir Tom Kulunga, was recently convicted of contempt and received a sentence of seven months hard labour.   Not even this has deterred them. The Prime Minister’s actions are easily explainable – he’s Continue reading Nature hates a vacuum: The potential demise of Peter O’Neill→

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