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Commentary by Petrus GAND   I am not sure if anyone else is seeing what I am seeing?  Struggling, hustling, improvising and strategizing amid this ethnically diverged society [in Papua New Guinea] has brought us no good. Troublesome, chaos, destruction and vengeance appear to be our way of reacting to issues. And it grows insanely nasty isn’t it?  Clumsy our systems are that they have strangled our progress. Which is why harmony is unlikely to be the kind of state we would aim for in the decades to come.   It is very simple to manage an entity that has many liquid assets because it will back you up in the business world where market security is of high regard. And for a country, we have a trillion-worth of resources to support us. But it is quite confusing when our leaders who enter parliament happen to lose their compass and go off-track effortlessly.  This is where personal greed overrules. And it is evil. Evil greed. Anyhow, I’d never seen an MP in one of our human cages for cu...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese’s visit to the country next week.   The visit will take place from the 12th to the 13th of this month.  Australian PMAnthony Albanese to meet  PNG PM  James Marape [R] During the two-day official visit, Mr. Albanese will attend the Annual Leaders Dialogue alongside Mr. Marape in Port Moresby.  The meeting will further strengthen the partnership between both leaders, who have met at the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, the Prime Minister’s XIII Rugby League match in Brisbane, and the APEC meeting in Bangkok.   Following the dialogue, both Prime Ministers will travel to Wewak, East Sepik, to visit the resting place of the late Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, the Japanese Memorial Peace Park, and Moem Barracks. Mr. Marape says he looks forward to starting the new year with a visit from Mr Albanese to reinforce the long-standing relationship between the two countries.  Meantime, ...