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A landowner group in New Ireland Province has claimed that a US-based company is illegally selling carbon credits on international market from their rainforests.
In a letter addressed to the Managing Director of Climate Change and Development Agency (CCDA), Ruel Yamuna, the Kamlapar landowner group claim the company, NIHT Inc is operating illegally and have used fraudulent means to obtain their VCS or
verified carbon standard project and carbon credits.
NIHT Inc and its subsidiary NI Holdings Limited, said during a meeting earlier this year with the Minister for Environment and Conservation Wera Mori that local resource owners responded positively to the carbon credit project.
Sope s history lesson
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Vanuatu’s former Roving Ambassador and former Prime Minister, Barak Sope, has disputed claims that the late Sir Michael Somare was a supporter of West Papua.
Sope says it is important that original political leaders including PNG former Prime Minister, Sir Julius Chan, former Commander of the PNG Kumul Force, Commander Ted Diro who led his army to crush the Santo Rebellion, and former Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka who are still alive today know that their contributions towards peace and freedom in the Pacific are recognised and respected.
He says while Sir Michael was in Opposition, he did not agree to send PNG troops to Vanuatu to quell the Santo Rebellion.
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Andrew Peacock: the glamorous achiever
He may have been dubbed a show pony and the Colt from Kooyong, but Andrew Peacock proved over 40 years in public life that he was an original and highly effective minister and diplomat.
Andrew Peacock and Jeff Kennett campaigning. May 15, 1985.
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When Andrew Peacock was riding high in his ministerial career, a Labor frontbencher raised doubts about his administrative competence during parliamentary question time.
Dressed in a finely tailored blue suit that followed the contours of his tanned, fitness-first body, with a striped shirt and a stiff white collar – also the fashion of the times – Peacock rose to his feet theatrically.
A former Vanuatu prime minister says praise heaped on the late Sir Michael Somare as a supporter of political freedom in the region is misplaced.
Barak Sope s comments strike a contrasting tone to the many regional tributes since the passing of Papua New Guinea s founding father in February.
Pacific Leaders: front row Victor Tutugoro, Sir Michael Somare, Oscar Temaru
Photo: RNZ / Johnny Blades
Sope said he was saddened by Sir Michael s death. But he doesn t agree with Vanuatu s Bob Loughman-led government when it praised PNG s first prime minister as a supporter of political freedom for Vanuatu, West Papua and also the formation of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.