Recently in the 23rd Australia-PNG business forum...PNG was strongly urged to accelerate progress in the reform and liberalisation of its telecommunications, ports, roads, power and water infrastructure and to encourage competition in these sectors..as these affect the overall cost of doing business in the country.

One interesting outcome was the launching of National Agriculture Development Policy which promises K100m for 10year. Another

The forum participants also urged PNG to invest the current surplus from this year's resources boom into areas that provided sustainable growth and employment...this is in reply to another K100m promise for free education.

I hope all these promises and policies are not election related..as we all know too well that as government change, so does policies...........typical example, NCDC act.

the K100m Agriculture plan is too small for 10yrs, 10Million per year allocated to fund agriculture project is not enough.

LAW AND ORDER!..em wanpla hap graun ol man mari mus sekilim na luksave lon taim blo development.

Nogut ol bisinis wok bagarap lo holdup no kain mekim save olsem. tingim Lae lon lastwik, em kainkain holdup na bisinis nau fret lo wokabaut bilong ol.

Definitely agre mangi ples.

Fix the law & order problem to encourage bussiness.

Who will fix the law and order problems in PNG? Not that I am trying to be difficult here but there is a breakdown in the disciplinary forces, ie, the police, those are the very people that uphold the law and according to media reports from yesterday and today, which was the result of an ongoing battle in the police hierarchy some time ago, they are taking the law into their own hands and I wonder if the ones involved will be punished for what they did. Anybody can see that there is a division in the police force so goes the saying "A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND".

So for the law and order problems of this country to be fixed to encourage business, the police force has to be put in order.

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http://www.thepostcourier.com.pg

Cops face sack

POLICEMEN allegedly involved in bashing up the director of prosecutions Thomas Eluh in Port Moresby on Wednesday face suspension.
The policemen and the civilians would be investigated and dealt with accordingly, acting Deputy Commissioner and chief of operations Jim Andrews said yesterday.
Mr Andrews said Police Commissioner Gari Baki was expected to come down hard on those allegedly involved in the beating.
In reaction to the bashing, the Police Association of PNG, while condemning the action, said there was a serious management problem within the force and there was no command and no control from the top.
The New Guinea Islands police also condemned the incident saying it clearly showed there was division in the force.
Mr Andrews said: “The action by those policemen who allegedly beat up Mr Eluh is unbecoming of members of the disciplinary force and it’s improper.’’
He said Mr Baki was making moves to suspend those policemen and officers before an investigation was conducted.
“The policemen and the civilians who were allegedly involved in the incident will be investigated and if found guilty, disciplinary action will be taken against them,” Mr Andrews said.
Meanwhile, Assistant Commissioner Raphael Huafolo claimed what Mr Eluh had said about police beating him were mere allegations. Mr Huafolo said Mr Eluh had run into the public who bashed him up when the policemen shouted, “holim em, holim em.” (Hold him, hold him).
“The police took him (Eluh) nicely to Waigani police station where the suspension notice was served on him,” Mr Huafolo said.
Mr Huafolo said there was no division in the police force and all the policemen and women were working under one commissioner to fight law and order problems in the country.