Without your knowledge PNG is loosing more than K5M kina every day without your knowledge, because the power of gold that supposed to backed the local kina moni has been replaced by FIAT PAPER MONEY without a value, meaning if their is nor foreign money in the reserve of BPNG, the kina will loose it more value thats what happen not long ago when it shrink down to 0.19

Please ask around why PNG is number ninth gold producing country and has no gold reserve in BPNG vault to physically backed the Kina moni?

My fellow PNGn, we are sitting on time bomb, if there will be no more export and no dollars in the reserve, the kina will be shrink down like throwing stone in the river…… please give this a serious thought… and please surf this website to learn more what Im saying here: http://www.globalallianceassnnew.org

Tenk yu tru

Just like what Ruth is saying about logging companies nagging landowners.

Keep it up!!

I read the Post Courier article too and it seems, the claims by Mr Anderson that “there will be no benifits to anyone” and “only a few lucky individuals will benifit at the expense of the rest” is completely out of place.

Firstly as it stands, there is currently very little benifit to the land owners and more benifit to the foreigners from how I percieve things. So the proposed change will seek to address that by causing the land owners to benifit more.

Secondly the “few lucky individuals” he talks about are in fact the rightful landowners who have owned that land for generations. What in the world was Mr Anderson thinking when he made that statement. They have the birth right over that land. They have been sitting on that land for millenia. You either talk and negotiate through them properly, or find another country to abuse. But we are having none of the same old thing about mines coming in, to steal our resources and leave us with a big hole in the ground, dirty rivers and nothing financially whatsoever to show for it.

Mr Anderson should learn our melanesian customs first before he opens up his mouth and speaks non sense on behalf of the foreingers that he seems to represent. We Papua New Guineans have had enough of all these Westernized mindset way of thinking, about analysing how we should control our own resources. If those big companies are not happy with the propsed changes, please leave now. The Indians and chinese are knocking, and do not waste out opputunity to get a better deal when we want it.

The rightful land owners must get more equity than what is now seen. For far too long, the people have just been left on the side and their resources extracted without compensation that is commensurate with the untold damage that it leaves behind to the future generations.

If any mining developer does not like the proposed mining ammendments than they can leave the country, because it shows that they are not genuine with the people, they are only here to take our resources.

If a mine does not benifit the local people than it should not exist. In our country, all foreign companies wanting to make a buck out of our resources must serve us first, we do not serve them. The proposed changes are good for the land owners.

We Papua New Guineans have to be strict with our resources. The world will still come back to us to for our minerals because they are running out of places else where to mine and drill for it.

Where else can you get the array of mineral wealth that we have. Only in Papua New Guinea.

Until we start taking things to a different level, Somare and his mob (and all the other corrupt politicians) will just sit back and laugh at the inability of us, the supposed educated elite, to do a damn thing about all the injustice and wrongs that we see in our country.

Isn’t it odd that in other countries, people have no problem rising up when they’re placed in the same situation but we do absolutely nothing but publish yet another story about unethical behaviour and complain bitterly about what we read?