Who is at the helm of the PNG police department?

The National News reported today that a local contractor upgrading roads in the Southern Highlands Province donated six tires to a police highway patrol car used by the policemen to curb lawlessness on the Highlands Highway.

Yesterday, the same paper carried a report on Binatang Trading Company based in Mount Hagen, Western Highlands Province gave a set of uniforms to the policemen and women in Western Highlands Province.

Left, Simon Sia, managing director of Binatang Trading handing over new set of police uniforms to the Police Commander in Western Highlands Province, Peter Rosire in front of policemen and women yesterday.

Time and again, we hear stories of policemen and women who resort to ordinary people who report their crimes to help them pay for gas and other logistic support to attend to their complaints.

We can't lay the blame on the policemen and women who work tirelessly under some tiring conditions to do the job not because they are well paid but the love and passion they have to do what they do best.

It is a shame for these men and women in blue uniform to ask the citizens of the country to help them in their daily police operations. The government has the sole responsibility to cater for what the policemen and women need throughout the country.

The government can't beat it's chest and say everything is in order. It seems that nobody is doing it's job as well as paying attention to what's going on back in our towns, districts, and villages.

Those who claim to be leaders always look for canyons to divert funds to subjective use as well as formulate cunning mechanisms to cling onto power so that their empires expand overtime at the expense of the majority who struggle to make ends meet.

If the government is concerned about combating law and order situations throughout the country; first and foremost, it must provide adequate resources for all police operations throughout the country.

It is the government's responsibility to make sure all police facilities throughout the country are adequately funded and resources needed are in place so that our good policemen and women can enjoy doing their work.

I think something is totally wrong here. Who is not doing his/her job? Who is in charge of the police department? Where are the funds to cater for such basic police needs? How much longer will policemen and women throughout the country need to wait to have these basic items for daily operations?

Who is at the helm of the PNG police department?

The National News reported today that a local contractor upgrading roads in the Southern Highlands Province donated six tires to a police highway patrol car used by the policemen to curb lawlessness on the Highlands Highway.

Yesterday, the same paper carried a report on Binatang Trading Company based in Mount Hagen, Western Highlands Province gave a set of uniforms to the policemen and women in Western Highlands Province.

Left, Simon Sia, managing director of Binatang Trading handing over new set of police uniforms to the Police Commander in Western Highlands Province, Peter Rosire in front of policemen and women yesterday.

Time and again, we hear stories of policemen and women who resort to ordinary people who report their crimes to help them pay for gas and other logistic support to attend to their complaints.

We can't lay the blame on the policemen and women who work tirelessly under some tiring conditions to do the job not because they are well paid but the love and passion they have to do what they do best.

It is a shame for these men and women in blue uniform to ask the citizens of the country to help them in their daily police operations. The government has the sole responsibility to cater for what the policemen and women need throughout the country.

The government can't beat it's chest and say everything is in order. It seems that nobody is doing it's job as well as paying attention to what's going on back in our towns, districts, and villages.

Those who claim to be leaders always look for canyons to divert funds to subjective use as well as formulate cunning mechanisms to cling onto power so that their empires expand overtime at the expense of the majority who struggle to make ends meet.

If the government is concerned about combating law and order situations throughout the country; first and foremost, it must provide adequate resources for all police operations throughout the country.

It is the government's responsibility to make sure all police facilities throughout the country are adequately funded and resources needed are in place so that our good policemen and women can enjoy doing their work.

I think something is totally wrong here. Who is not doing his/her job? Who is in charge of the police department? Where are the funds to cater for such basic police needs? How much longer will policemen and women throughout the country need to wait to have these basic items for daily operations?

Who is at the helm of the PNG police department?

The National News reported today that a local contractor upgrading roads in the Southern Highlands Province donated six tires to a police highway patrol car used by the policemen to curb lawlessness on the Highlands Highway.

Yesterday, the same paper carried a report on Binatang Trading Company based in Mount Hagen, Western Highlands Province gave a set of uniforms to the policemen and women in Western Highlands Province.

Left, Simon Sia, managing director of Binatang Trading handing over new set of police uniforms to the Police Commander in Western Highlands Province, Peter Rosire in front of policemen and women yesterday.

Time and again, we hear stories of policemen and women who resort to ordinary people who report their crimes to help them pay for gas and other logistic support to attend to their complaints.

We can't lay the blame on the policemen and women who work tirelessly under some tiring conditions to do the job not because they are well paid but the love and passion they have to do what they do best.

It is a shame for these men and women in blue uniform to ask the citizens of the country to help them in their daily police operations. The government has the sole responsibility to cater for what the policemen and women need throughout the country.

The government can't beat it's chest and say everything is in order. It seems that nobody is doing it's job as well as paying attention to what's going on back in our towns, districts, and villages.

Those who claim to be leaders always look for canyons to divert funds to subjective use as well as formulate cunning mechanisms to cling onto power so that their empires expand overtime at the expense of the majority who struggle to make ends meet.

If the government is concerned about combating law and order situations throughout the country; first and foremost, it must provide adequate resources for all police operations throughout the country.

It is the government's responsibility to make sure all police facilities throughout the country are adequately funded and resources needed are in place so that our good policemen and women can enjoy doing their work.

I think something is totally wrong here. Who is not doing his/her job? Who is in charge of the police department? Where are the funds to cater for such basic police needs? How much longer will policemen and women throughout the country need to wait to have these basic items for daily operations?

A school of Confucianism in PNG should set a good platform for better relations between China and PNG

Albert K. Tobby responds to some of the questions I raised here about Chinese presence in the Pacific and particularly in Papua New Guinea. David, you've raised some very important and serious questions, which demands proper answers. Here is my simple piece of thought: PNG is not alone in the quest to know China, the world is; except for about less than 10% of the worlds population who controls mainstream information flows through language, economic and political dominance.

What PNG and the world knows today is exactly what this 7 - 10% (ruling group) wants us to know. Our knowledge is limited to our exposure and access to information. For example, think of our education system, We've read western literature since elementary all the way to university and little did we know about China. From history to law and religion to physics, all we know about is western invention and civilization. Almost absolutely nothing about China. I say this is by design and not by coincidence.

The world history and the current international system is the design of the victors/rulers (i.e. west). It is an irony that, even though China has the oldest civilization in the world and were the first to initiate vital inventions (e.g. printing machine, gun powder, seismograph, wheelbarrow, kite and compass, etc..) that literally transformed human civilization, yet little is known about them.

Christopher Columbus circum navigate the globe only once in the1490's but Zhang He (Chinese sailor & diplomat) first voyage to Africa was in 1405. While theories of early world map varies from early Greece, Spanish, and Chinese civilizations , Zhang He's voyage to Africa affirmed earliest China's world view. Inspite of having scores of undisputable evidence supporting Chinese earliest civilization; China has been a closed society since the opimium war (1840's) and have been systematically subjected to foreign invasion and humiliation.

That is why, we know very little about their way of life, however this doesn't mean that their way of life cannot be practiced anyway in the world. Chinese way of life have stood the test of time for more than 3 millenia as compared to only few hundreds of the western (particularly US and Australia) way of life.

I recommend that instead for PNGn's to view the western way of life as the prototype, we should open our minds and exercise flexibility to accomodate China's way of life. It is discriminatory to highly value one culture and despise the other and furthermore it is direct violations of the UN declaration of Human Rights which we are a signatory to.

It is about time Papua New Guinean (government & civilians) stop listenning to the western jargons and rhetoric about China and form our own independent views about China. This will be particularly difficult because PNG's mindsets especially the literate (alas the illiterate) for generations have been train to think the exact opposite. Our (PNG's) current perspective of the world (China) is the one shaped through our past 17 + years of formal education in PNG.

On the other hand, China's business internationalization is very young. They are the late comers to international business arena but within less than 30 years, they've shaked and transformed global business practices. That is why everyone is making a big fuss out of China's rise.

Papua New Guineans instead of joining the tide of skepticism and making foul cries, we should re-adjust our world veiw and engage pragmatically and constructively with the Chinese in a way that best suits our national and local development needs.I agree, Papua New Guineans (government and civilians) need to know more about China and Chinese and vise versas so that we can engage in a mutually beneficial way.

Perhaps a proper awareness program (more better school of Confucianism in PNG) about China's (political system, economy, business practices, history and culture etc..) civilization will set a good platform for constructive engagement in the future.

A school of Confucianism in PNG should set a good platform for better relations between China and PNG

Albert K. Tobby responds to some of the questions I raised here about Chinese presence in the Pacific and particularly in Papua New Guinea. David, you've raised some very important and serious questions, which demands proper answers. Here is my simple piece of thought: PNG is not alone in the quest to know China, the world is; except for about less than 10% of the worlds population who controls mainstream information flows through language, economic and political dominance.

What PNG and the world knows today is exactly what this 7 - 10% (ruling group) wants us to know. Our knowledge is limited to our exposure and access to information. For example, think of our education system, We've read western literature since elementary all the way to university and little did we know about China. From history to law and religion to physics, all we know about is western invention and civilization. Almost absolutely nothing about China. I say this is by design and not by coincidence.

The world history and the current international system is the design of the victors/rulers (i.e. west). It is an irony that, even though China has the oldest civilization in the world and were the first to initiate vital inventions (e.g. printing machine, gun powder, seismograph, wheelbarrow, kite and compass, etc..) that literally transformed human civilization, yet little is known about them.

Christopher Columbus circum navigate the globe only once in the1490's but Zhang He (Chinese sailor & diplomat) first voyage to Africa was in 1405. While theories of early world map varies from early Greece, Spanish, and Chinese civilizations , Zhang He's voyage to Africa affirmed earliest China's world view. Inspite of having scores of undisputable evidence supporting Chinese earliest civilization; China has been a closed society since the opimium war (1840's) and have been systematically subjected to foreign invasion and humiliation.

That is why, we know very little about their way of life, however this doesn't mean that their way of life cannot be practiced anyway in the world. Chinese way of life have stood the test of time for more than 3 millenia as compared to only few hundreds of the western (particularly US and Australia) way of life.

I recommend that instead for PNGn's to view the western way of life as the prototype, we should open our minds and exercise flexibility to accomodate China's way of life. It is discriminatory to highly value one culture and despise the other and furthermore it is direct violations of the UN declaration of Human Rights which we are a signatory to.

It is about time Papua New Guinean (government & civilians) stop listenning to the western jargons and rhetoric about China and form our own independent views about China. This will be particularly difficult because PNG's mindsets especially the literate (alas the illiterate) for generations have been train to think the exact opposite. Our (PNG's) current perspective of the world (China) is the one shaped through our past 17 + years of formal education in PNG.

On the other hand, China's business internationalization is very young. They are the late comers to international business arena but within less than 30 years, they've shaked and transformed global business practices. That is why everyone is making a big fuss out of China's rise.

Papua New Guineans instead of joining the tide of skepticism and making foul cries, we should re-adjust our world veiw and engage pragmatically and constructively with the Chinese in a way that best suits our national and local development needs.I agree, Papua New Guineans (government and civilians) need to know more about China and Chinese and vise versas so that we can engage in a mutually beneficial way.

Perhaps a proper awareness program (more better school of Confucianism in PNG) about China's (political system, economy, business practices, history and culture etc..) civilization will set a good platform for constructive engagement in the future.

A school of Confucianism in PNG should set a good platform for better relations between China and PNG

Albert K. Tobby responds to some of the questions I raised here about Chinese presence in the Pacific and particularly in Papua New Guinea. David, you've raised some very important and serious questions, which demands proper answers. Here is my simple piece of thought: PNG is not alone in the quest to know China, the world is; except for about less than 10% of the worlds population who controls mainstream information flows through language, economic and political dominance.

What PNG and the world knows today is exactly what this 7 - 10% (ruling group) wants us to know. Our knowledge is limited to our exposure and access to information. For example, think of our education system, We've read western literature since elementary all the way to university and little did we know about China. From history to law and religion to physics, all we know about is western invention and civilization. Almost absolutely nothing about China. I say this is by design and not by coincidence.

The world history and the current international system is the design of the victors/rulers (i.e. west). It is an irony that, even though China has the oldest civilization in the world and were the first to initiate vital inventions (e.g. printing machine, gun powder, seismograph, wheelbarrow, kite and compass, etc..) that literally transformed human civilization, yet little is known about them.

Christopher Columbus circum navigate the globe only once in the1490's but Zhang He (Chinese sailor & diplomat) first voyage to Africa was in 1405. While theories of early world map varies from early Greece, Spanish, and Chinese civilizations , Zhang He's voyage to Africa affirmed earliest China's world view. Inspite of having scores of undisputable evidence supporting Chinese earliest civilization; China has been a closed society since the opimium war (1840's) and have been systematically subjected to foreign invasion and humiliation.

That is why, we know very little about their way of life, however this doesn't mean that their way of life cannot be practiced anyway in the world. Chinese way of life have stood the test of time for more than 3 millenia as compared to only few hundreds of the western (particularly US and Australia) way of life.

I recommend that instead for PNGn's to view the western way of life as the prototype, we should open our minds and exercise flexibility to accomodate China's way of life. It is discriminatory to highly value one culture and despise the other and furthermore it is direct violations of the UN declaration of Human Rights which we are a signatory to.

It is about time Papua New Guinean (government & civilians) stop listenning to the western jargons and rhetoric about China and form our own independent views about China. This will be particularly difficult because PNG's mindsets especially the literate (alas the illiterate) for generations have been train to think the exact opposite. Our (PNG's) current perspective of the world (China) is the one shaped through our past 17 + years of formal education in PNG.

On the other hand, China's business internationalization is very young. They are the late comers to international business arena but within less than 30 years, they've shaked and transformed global business practices. That is why everyone is making a big fuss out of China's rise.

Papua New Guineans instead of joining the tide of skepticism and making foul cries, we should re-adjust our world veiw and engage pragmatically and constructively with the Chinese in a way that best suits our national and local development needs.I agree, Papua New Guineans (government and civilians) need to know more about China and Chinese and vise versas so that we can engage in a mutually beneficial way.

Perhaps a proper awareness program (more better school of Confucianism in PNG) about China's (political system, economy, business practices, history and culture etc..) civilization will set a good platform for constructive engagement in the future.