Hela Tribe to Boycott 2007 Elections if no Hela province
May 31 2006 at 12:12 PM
Hela Opena
Helas firm on getting province
The National 31 May 2006
THE 350,000 Hela people in the western end of Southern Highlands province are adamant to get their own province.
Hela Gimbu Association chairman Damien Arabagali said in a statement yesterday that the people would pursue the issue with or without Governor Hami Yawari.
Mr Yawari recently made a series of public outbursts opposing the establishment of the new Hela province.
“I have not heard of you (Yawari) opposing the Hela province issue until that day we met at the eighth Petroleum Investment Conference in Sydney, Australia, in December 2004 when you opposed the petition for a desk for Hela province at the signing of an agreement on the development forum for the Hela to Queensland gas pipeline project.
“The Hela people have every confidence in the commitments made by Don Poyle, Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, Sir Peter Barter and Sir Michael Somare that there will be a Hela province by 2007,” Mr Arabagali said.
He thanked Tari Pori MP Tom Tomiape, Komo Margarima MP Balus Libe and the Hela working committee for their support.
If there is no Hela Province, The Tribe of Hela will boycott the 2007 elections, no MP-No representation-Unless and untill the Tribe becomes a province of its own.
Re: Hela Tribe to Boycott 2007 Elections if no Hela province
May 31 2006, 6:19 PM
Boycotts CAN make a difference, but boycotting an election only hurts those who do not vote.
The Hela people should be boycotting other things, or shutting down other things in a peaceful, nonviolent way to bring home their point. Let's not have another Bougainville. On the other hand, the only boycotts that are effective are boycotts that hurt, really hurt, the targets of the boycotts.
A peaceful boycott that hurts has little choice but to involve something worth money, lots of money.
Re: Hela Tribe to Boycott 2007 Elections if no Hela province
June 1 2006, 6:04 PM
Why do you people want your own province. What makes you so unique that you think you deserve a province of your own. Or better still, why do you think you qualify for having a provinc of your own?
Plese justify....
Re: Hela Tribe to Boycott 2007 Elections if no Hela province
June 1 2006, 6:22 PM
So called hela leaders and numerous associations are disintegrated and function on isolation to each other.
They have no central leader, Arabagali is opposed by others, Sakai is opposed by others. Agiru is a statesman and has long been a neutral person. Other low-level leaders who frequent the media and completing against each other backed by minority association popped up around POM.
PNG government has seen this and know that giving Hela region a province will in return affect the national government. Besides, caveman attitudes still prevail in western southern highlands.
Hela should never get a province untill beyond 2012, but can only receive it on condition that they prove to the central government that they are capable.
Re: Hela Tribe to Boycott 2007 Elections if no Hela province
June 1 2006, 6:45 PM
In response to Joken,
You may have seen the power struggles in Mendi, the public service machinery in Mendi is hijacked by people from other parts of SHP, we are always isolated, when I say isolated, I mean isolated in decision making and social services.
Look at the power struggle between Powi and the current Administrator, the governor, public servants getting paid for doing nothing, SHP remote controlled from Port Moresby like a Televsion Screen, SHP is a province made up of people, not an equipment such as a TV screen.
The current and continous turmoil in SHP government has not benefitted anyone, it has affected every SHP, Let the other parts of SHP be SHP.
SHP is too big, consecutive administrations and governments have not been able to bring SHP to a certain degree of being manageable. All have failed and as a result, SHP people are suffering,we have suffered enough and be on our own.
One thing must be made clear, Hela is not a group of people bundled together, HELA is a TRIBE, and this TRIBE must have its own province.
So Hela is a tribe?? Now tribes have clans and subclans, dont they?
Considering the rat race for prominence among Hela leaders is a case in point. Every little Tom Dick and Harry in POM is a Hela leader and continously potray how impoprtant they are to the Hela debate. The thing here is you are already divided as you are now. So what gurrantee is there that Hela will be different if it gets a province of your own?
HELA WILL REIGN FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 2 2006, 4:52 PM
HELA WILL REIGN AND ALL critics will be proven wrong. Hela has a strong backing from the National government and all hela elites, except the power struggle politicians and the so called associations formed here and there for the share of the pie. Otherwise we are intact.
Re: HELA WILL REIGN FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 2 2006, 6:16 PM
The inability of the government to create an environment where people have checks and balances on their behaviour is responsible for the unending stealing and embezzling of money. What is happening with the provinces and tribes happened years ago with ILGs. In some resource areas, I'm told that ILGs broke down into smaller and smaller units, until some of them reached a population of one! Yes one person made up an ILG. To see Hela want to split off from the rest of SHP isn't surprising because it's another response to the same pathetic inability of the government to do much more than move wealth away from other parts of the country and towards the pockets in Waigani.
There's no such 'Hela tribe' - making sense of senselessness
June 2 2006, 7:22 PM
Hela tribesmen/woman,
U r sitting behind your 4-square computer screen (like me) yapping away, "Hela is a tribe".
Great real! There's no such grouping as a Hela 'tribe'. Don't fool yourself (and others).
You know it. I know it (I am a Highlander, too). It's a white lie, and perniciously nonsense; something of a misnomer to refer to Hela as a 'tribe'.
Don't let emotions instill confusion and irrational behavior. Rather, let commonsense precede hot air 'talk show' before it leads you and others, that's if you have follower's, astray.
Experiences of this nature elsewhere had led to interminable squabbling among the tribe[s] of vulgar politician's who'll immediately spring up among your midst and derail whatever [little] development gains already on the ground.
You must be prepared to mitigate the nasty upswing created by the leadership vacuum in the province if Hela is become a reality, so soon. Believe me, there'll be an upsurge of criminals, thugs, hooligans, thieves, crooks, whiners, and corrupters all wanting a share of the cake.
Finally, don't rule out the emergence of warlords with their semi-private armies; look no further than Bougainville, and you'll know.
If you don't know your relationships, traditions and customs don't even make any comment on this board!
Let me give you a brief on HELA. The Hela tribe comprise all the 7 clans extending from Tari all the way to Koroba kopyogo and to the border of Western Province. The eigth clan is the ENGA Province. HELA bores 8 sons and the 1 st born is ENGA. If we had decided our political borders before independence instead of the whiteman, ENGA should have been included under Hela Province because we are basically one people.
The HELA people have a right to form their own province. They are completely diferent from other southern highands people. Over the last couple of decades they have been blindsided by the southern highlands provincial government. There was no government services and the people literally lived a backward life.
They must form their own province and they will whether you like it or not!
kar..givim ol province igo na lusim ol kilim ol yet.
This is what they are doing and will do if they get their province:
Dinau..dinau..dinau..taim royalty kam ol bekim dinan...hap moni go long pokies, hap moni go long taxi, hap moni go long meri HB, hap moni go long beer... nogat moni long...
The issue of Hela is that we will run our province not in a western concept of democracy and government but we will BLEND it to suit the people of Hela. For so long this adopted democracy we have inherited only stays and is felt in Waigani.
We have plans to execute a style of government that will be apprecited and felt by the Hela people, we want to create a model of government in which we feel will be adopted by the PNG government for PNG provinces. Even if the Hela government is based/formed on consensus from all Hela Clans, rather than elections, elections on one hand create disunity and hatred amongst people. We have seen election related violence all over PNG even causing death and anarchy, is having elections a recipe for good leadership and governance, or cause of disunity and unequal distribution of social and economic services.
These are some issue Hela is looking at having a user friendly government.
The province of Hela will contribute towards nation building. We are ready as ever.
Without details, plans like this just sound like hot air. For exampple HOW will this envisioned government be different from western democracy, in other words what are the actual mechanisms of government that will be different? From what I'm reading of your posting, it sounds like you don't like elections (because of the violence). That would be a dictatorship, not a democracy!
Not that, yes elections are hijacked in most cases, violence erupts, and chaos, divisions within families, communities, ethnic groups and political affiliations, if that is what we vote on, otherwise we vote for relatives, cronies and the lot.
There are more to it, we want to have a government built on consensus, where people (Hela) come to the drawing board and discuss, amongst themselves, the leaders they want, where all people are involved in the decision process, Hela people have always done that, other societies in PNG have always done that, that is the Melanesian way of effective leadership.
In elections people do not vote, only a few vote on behalf of other people, I have not voted for the last 3 elections, in most cases the ballot papers are hijacked.The people know who is a true leader but unfortunately they cannot exercise, the whole process is hijackes by a lunatic a rapist, murderer, conman, advocate or a former inmate.
We want to strengthen and refine traditional Hela leadership in Modern PNG and would invite other PNGeans to contribute, the New Ireland people have decided to use traditional leadership in the Provincial government.
Hela believes that elections will only divide Hela, this is one of many options we would look at, I think it is about time we look at what can really work for Hela or PNG people rather than keep on doing (conventional methods) what is always against us in our progression to modernity.
No government is perfect but the most effective governments in the world were structured by looking back at governments of the past, evaluating the pros and cons very carefully, and proceeding forward. I hope you have done at least that much planning and are true experts in governance that you could answer any question thrown at you on this board with a detailed explanation. If you haven't prepared to at least that level, what you'll end up with is something so half assed it may attract world laughter and most certainly will be disasterous to the Hela people. History gives us lessons so that we don't have to repeat the mistakes that others made. Please don't screw up. Pay attention to the tiniest of details. Become an expert. Don't do things in the normal half assed way we Papua New Guineans have approached so many sophisticated challenges.
Any government structure that does a better job of negotiating benefits on behalf of the customary resource owners, I'm in favour of and full support for those who want to pursue it. If an independent Hela province means at long last that the bulk of resource royalties won't go into the pockets of a few PNG "educated elite" and that finally foreign companies are dictated to instead of them dictating to us, wow, what a wonderful change that would be for the people of PNG!
Certainly we don't need any more of those "we know better than the landowners" kind of governments that we've suffered from already for years! It has been that kind of attitude that has lead to the leaders we have today. Leaders who arrogantly welcome in and make deals with foreigners that will hurt PNG in the long run, leaders who always want to negotiate on behalf of the landowners rather than letting the landowners negotiate for themselves.
I am sorry, I beg to differ from your simplistic, unsubstantiated, and heresy views of what is, and what will be, a complex and complicated process towards Hela being granted province status.
Two glaring lies sheeted through your teeth;
1. "HELA bores 8 sons and the 1st born is ENGA." Mythical, heresy that has no solid foundation. Leave Enga province out of your mess!
2. "They [Hela] are completely different from other southern highands people (sic)." Again load of hogwash, nonsensical, nothing but crap. In what ways, may I posit?
4 ur info; I know who I am, I know my roots, I know where I've been, and I tend to know where I am headed.
Sad truth is that if it is people like you who cry out for Hela province, hopefully it is restricted to cyber-talk, I pity the destiny of the majority who'll be led by the likes of you.
@wama, you're the one who's out in space. We all know that the source of the clamour for Hela province is the continued disparity and inequality of revenue sharing that has been going on for years. You haven't done a tangible thing to stop that problem nor has any other learned highlander. Not surprisingly the problem has grown, and the frustration now boils over into a demand for something you don't like. Next time try to be an activist and stop a problem befor it occurs. It's not enough to sit in an armchair and pout because ultimately it won't be you who gets your way but those who were activists. Sometimes the result isn't for the greater good, but if you're not part of the solution, then you're by default part of the problem. Now we have the Asian influx problem which grows by the day. Yet again learned PNGeans are sitting on the sidelines just thinking the problem will go away or the frustration faced by people on the ground will not build. Again who is to blame. I reckon it's those who could have made a difference but chose to do nothing more than pontificate.
cheers.
hey, you guys out there. You are just wasting your time in calling for a new province. You think that you have the resources and are saying this but you are all bunch of culprits. You are only thinking about today only not tomorrow. Thats why you're found in most of the squatter settlements in PNG.
Think before you talk.
Sopos yupela man stret orait go long ples, wokim wok long ples na toktok. Yu sanap long graun na toktok em bai karim kaikai. Not from POM or where ever in PNG apart from SHP.
Remember, you are all wasting your time. Hela will never get a province.
When Hela gets its province, the ame songo and indi apa tribes man will go back to stone age and caveman attitudes. Iam afraid you will be either wandering around in caves or either begging from chequlyn and Cashlyn for free handouts by Govenor Hami yawari. did you not know that? you should look at the two sides of the coins before stating any thing. we helas are hard working people, we do not beg and wait for hand outs, we strife to to survive. if you did not know it know it now. We will get our province before 2007 election, believe me.
You're sounding like you're from the stone age-you and etc etc
June 7 2006, 10:55 AM
Grow up and stop name calling. We've got a problem, a really serious problem in PNG. The problem is that every time we elect someone new to replace someone old, we end up with yet another person going bad. We've got to stop this nonsense where we get one corrupt leader after another. Instead of calling names, look at the big picture. Rise to the occasion, don't sink into a sewer with petty comments.
Please. Your Province's future relies on you being mature.
Looks to me like Helas are thinking about the future
June 7 2006, 11:22 AM
I beg to differ with your assessment, wantok! It looks to me like the Helas are sick of being ripped off of benefits from their resources.
On the other hand, once they get their province, they'll quickly be whipped into shape by OilSearch, ExxonMobil and the other biggies. It's the corporations that get their way in PNG, not southern highlanders.
hey, you guys out there. You are just wasting your time in calling for a new province. You think that you have the resources and are saying this but it doesn't make sense. You are only thinking about today only not tomorrow. Thats why you're found in most of the squatter settlements in PNG.
Think before you talk.
Sopos yupela man stret orait go long ples, wokim wok long ples na toktok. Yu sanap long graun na toktok em bai karim kaikai. Not from POM or where ever in PNG apart from SHP.
Remember, you are all wasting your time. Hela will never get a province.
The Western part of Southern Highland Province (Hela) think fit to get a seperate province with the abundance of resources on their land, which is indeed a fact.
The saddest point which is not foreseen and understood is that,when they cannot manage and equally distribute the returns from these resources for the benefit of the majority in the region, how can they manage public money once they get a province. The same old people in power now and a vocal for a Hela province will still be prominent figures. The gap between the rich and poor will get wider with time.
They should not blame other Southern Highlanders for the break down of law and order,deteriorating infrastructural development and other basic services. They should all be blamed, Anderson Agiru was the Governor of the province at some time before with alot of power to make decisions and control public money.What fundamental background did he set for the Hela Province to take off from if he and other Hela leaders had an agenda of Hela province in their minds?
Now with the Gas pipeline and other notable resources,few power hungry so called leaders are gathering around Port Moresby so that they can get richer overnight under the umbrella of Hela. The remote people of Komo,Bosave,Koroba and Kopiago will still be the same and continue to suffer as the Hela province will be run like a bussiness to benefit those advocates now in POM. I wonder if all the people in the Hela region unanimously agree to having a seperate province.
The fact we know about Hela is that nobody wants to submit themselves as listeners, they all want to be leaders so who will be a follower? People's personality don't change over night and the Helas are known for their power hungry attitude [everywhere else but worse in Hela]. This will lead to inhouse fighting amongst the so called Hela tribe or family.
Expect the unexpected, instead of developing, Hela will go into the cave man ages.
Good Luck in the struggle...'Higiri wahes'
Divided We Fall, United We Stand....... Souths Pawa
The saddest point which is not foreseen and understood is that,when Hami Yawari cannot manage and equally distribute the returns from these resources for the benefit of the majority in the region, how can he manage public money any better once he is re-elected. The same old people in power now and will still be prominent figures. The gap between the rich and poor will get wider with time.
They should not blame other Southern Highlanders for the break down of law and order,deteriorating infrastructural development and other basic services. Hami Yawari should be blamed, Anderson Agiru was the Governor of the province at some time before with alot of power to make decisions and control public money.What fundamental background did he set for looking after money properly?
HELA WILL REIGN FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 6 2006, 5:02 PM
Believe it or not Hela will still get a province before 2007 general election. Mind my word, lads and gents, time is not the factor anymore it is the pen and the paper now. Anytime soon when the ink is laid on the white paper then the Hela trumpets will blow as far as SHP. Do you guys, like Tindi Apa and Souths Amesongo know what actually you talking about? There is no unity when we are divided with our tradition and culture and therefore there is a lot of corrupt practices in SHP. When we seperate from yous and the rest of SHP we will be better off than now because we have the same interest. By that time you will be back to your stone ages and go back to the caves; it all backfires your selves do you see that. You will barely have no resources left. All you will be waiting is free hand out from cashlyn and chequlyn and sandwiching govenor Hami Yawari. You will literally beg for free hand outs. Cash, Cash Cash Cash free free, freeeeeeeee,. Cash believe me.... so do not open your mouth for nothing think before say or do something.
CHEERS.
TEXMARN.
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no caps lock pls
7mile
This message has been edited by 7milebeach on Jun 7, 2006 11:24 AM This message has been edited by 7milebeach on Jun 6, 2006 5:27 PM
Don't complain about Hami Yawari because he is still part of Hela.
That's a son of Hela doing that. Hahahahahaha.... This definitely shows how you will manage your province.
Oil Search & Hides Gas request independent provinces
June 6 2006, 5:15 PM
Both Oil Search and Hides Gas respectfully ask that their exploration areas be declared separate and independent provinces.
The new Oil Search Province will cover the Kutubu and Gobe oil areas, but all Hulis will be excluded from this new province according to the Oil Search request.
The new Hides Gas Province will include a very thin strip of territory leading to Australia to allow for a single pipeline.
Please dutifully consider the requests by these fine companies.
PNG in its former life as a colony of Australia has had the ill-fate of being divided into districts and provinces with no regard to traditional boundaries, language and cultural groups and tribal areas. This has resulted in the case that the Hela people are facing today within SHP since while Hami Yawari was the Governor the people of the Hela area have been neglected for the past five years. The same can be said for the period when Anderson Aigiru was in power when the area from Nipa to Mendi was neglected. Through this tough times there have been a lot of tribal warfare and people have lost their live, property and generally sense of security. SHP today has one of the most run down public service systems in the country and most of this is due to the people themselves.
The notion of boycotting the national general election in 2007 is rather childish and very much something that happens in universities around the world. The people of the Hela region should follow the example set by the Tari District administration in following the process through administrative means rather than such an act as boycotting the election.
The reason that I am stating this is because of several factors. First of all what are the avenues open to the Hela people in their desire to become a seperate province? Secondly have all these avenues been explored and what outcomes are there? Thirdly if there is any set backs what are they and how can these be addressed? Fourthly what do you want to achieve through your boycotting of the national elections apart from the obvious media coverage? Fifth if you do carry on with the boycotting of the elections what are the repercussions? Sixth If there are repercussions how and by what means do you in your planning desire or foresee that these repercussions would not affect the general population with dire effects?
These are only some of the things that I want you to think about before you dive headlong into your demise and take SHP or the Hela people with you.
For your information I have been around the Hela area for a good one and a half months and within the Hela area itself there are continuous fighting and power struggles.
The decision to seperate and become a province on its own is something that the Hela people have to want and to work towards gently to achieve. Its not going to be a radically boycott of the general elections which may have repercussions that may mean that Hami Yawari will still be in power for the next five years and the Hela people continuing to suffer for the period.
I tell you now that you are a very foolish person to come up with such a stupid idea of boycotting the general elections. Most people who read and post ideas in this website are university educated and I am not one of those people. If you are however, one such person I would like to tell you to put your education to good use instead of trying to instill some childish prank. USE YOUR HEAD!!
For your information also the police and army have made intelligence surveys of the areas in SHP that are known to be hotspots of weapons caches . They are quiet prepared and if anything stupid happens during the elections the people of Hela will suffer more than you realise. They have learned from Bouganville and will not make the same mistake again.
All sons of Hela will be under one province, our very own. Thanks to Sam Abal, Don, Sons of Hela Opena.
We have been neglected for too long.
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Polye for creation of 4 provinces
The National 12th July 2006
THE push for separate provinces for Hela in the Southern Highlands, Jiwaka in the Western Highlands and to divide Morobe in half is gathering momentum.
A submission is pending before cabinet to declare Hela and Jiwaka and possibly a separate Morobe province before next year’s elections.
The plan was to get the legislative framework in place to make the declarations before next year’s elections and worry about the technical details later, Deputy Prime Minister Don Polye said yesterday.
Mr Polye is staking his political future on the drive.
“I know the dangers,” he said. “I will deliver Hela. I will deliver Jiwaka. And I will deliver Morobe.
“I know the dangers. I will rise or fall by this decision,” Mr Polye said.
He said the provinces would be “declared in principle”, explaining that they would have the broad boundaries drawn and be declared first and the latter divisions into electorates and wards could be conducted later.
Mr Polye said legal advice sought had it that two amendments would need to be made immediately to enable Government to declare a province and to increase the number of provinces from the current 20.
The Cabinet submission, sponsored by Engan MP, Sam Abal who was recently made Minister for Provincial and Local Government Affairs, also contains his own report on Hela and Jiwaka.
Mr Polye along with Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare accused of politicising the separate provinces issue particularly in relation to Hela, said he realised the dangers and was willing to put his political future on the line.
“If there is a need for a separate province, then there is a need. We will have to move fast and that is what we are doing.”
Don't you know anything about "campaign promises"?
All 109 members will promise anything if they think that will get your vote. They'll promise you money, projects, schools, roads, jobs, even provinces.
And after they're elected/re-elected?
OFF they go to Moresby, never to be seen by you again!!! At least not until the next election.
Don't be silly and naive. All the pollies are promising whatever they think will allow them to HOLD ON to their power.
Re: Boycott the elections by not electing an NA candidate in Hela
July 22 2006, 7:43 PM
What corrupt party and corrupt leaders to you suggest that we vote for instead? After all, to get the money they need to form a government, they've got to either bribe, steal, be bought, prostitute themselves, launder money under the table, etc.
So...... which corrupt party do you think is better?
ok everyone cool down when i become PM i will have all the country redivided by their respective ethinic lines as that would make communication easier!! then we would have half of poermoresby and Lae in hela??? cant we be PNG?? so much for all those useless EMTV advertisments about one nation???
Re: Hela Tribe to Boycott 2007 Elections if no Hela province
August 15 2006, 12:45 AM
All Hela Opena whatever,
If I were you, I would get back to the HELA Villages and start building up and preparing ourselves for a province rather than crowding around Port Moresby city.
Given the current state of affairs in the Hela Region, you are just not ready for a province.
Re: Hela Tribe to Boycott 2007 Elections if no Hela province
August 23 2006, 11:13 PM
This bunch of hooligans congregating around Gordons and Erima are not capable of having their own province. Everyone knows who they are... clumsy rethoric thick heads cant take no for an answer. If you cant manage southern Highlands well, how can you manage a new province. It may take another probababily 100 years to get your attitudes and egos right..and quaify to look after yourselves and respect other people. You ask yourselves why the government has decided not to make any serious commitment since 1974 when it was first requested. You better cooperate with other southern hihglands and develop the province and improve your living standard first. I am sick to death hearing all these nonesense!
Re: Hela Tribe to Boycott 2007 Elections if no Hela province
August 24 2006, 1:19 AM
These clowns are everywhere, crowding around, laying their hands on anything to make a living.
It is a pity they have taken over Port Moresby and have been part of the many ethnic clashes and bring shame to the whole of Southern Highlands.
Look at Porgera, Tabubil, Kutubu (Moro)-the Helas have basically outnumbered the locals there and taken over all the means of making money and a living.
You clowns are jumping up and down about a Province but are you really prepared for a province?
That is the most important question.
Your outrageous behaviour had resulted in the closure of major shopping outlets, banks, police station and even the airport in Tari, what guarantee can you give that you are able to look after any establishment of the government.
Even mines like Porgera have suffered power outages by your actions of bring down the power poles and the Hides Gas project site and heavily guarded because noone can guarantee the safety of its operations and staffs...
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This message has been edited by 7milebeach on Aug 24, 2006 4:38 PM
I think southern Highlands will be easier to manage if its number and size is trimmed. And Lets hope the Helas will manage themselves with their own government within their own boundary. We have seen so far how inefective our past and present provincial governments have been interms of service distribution and delivery, except during Sir Wiwa Korowi and Agiru's times.
(You may have your own views about Agiru but I still believe and can prove to you that he actually delivered in his short term in office...and is yet to lose an election).
Look at the breath and width of the entire province? What do you see? poverty or prosperity? Progression or recession? Its always the latter, aint it. I believe we have natural resources more than any other province in PNG, and the contribution of these (resources)towards the development of the host province are none-existent. The deteriorating road conditions in ALL parts of the province makes me wonder if we do have multi-million kina worth of oil and gas projects in the province. HELAS are scattered all over PNG and matter of fact a good number also live in Queensland because as we all know, the "push-factors" in the area is hard and persistent. Poor road and bridge links discourage economic activities and that makes LIFE HARD FOR PEOPLE IN THE REMOTE AREAS, for example, the Helas.
Other woes include run-down schools and health facilities. Imagine an area populated with tens of thousands linked to the outside world by a road that is more like a bush track...SHP provincial government once again has shown or better put, proved that it can not meet the needs and wants of the entire province. Let the HELAS have their own province and run their own affairs their HELA way. The people will probably respect their own government and leaders from their own tribe and or descent.
