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Papua New Guinea's supreme court has set out a way to deal with the quagmire of cases stemming from the country's ongoing political conflict.
There are a dozen cases clogging the courts stemming from the conflict between Peter O'Neill and Sir Michael Somare over PNG's prime ministership.
Acting chief justice Gibbs Salika says the primary issue is determining who is the legitimate leader.
He said the best way to do it is to deal with two Supreme Court references filed by the O'Neill camp.
They ask for the court's opinions on constitutional questions such as whether the court can interfere with parliament's appointment of a prime minister.
Justice Salika said all other cases have been stayed pending the outcome of the references.
Sir Michael was ousted as prime minister and replaced by Mr O'Neill in August after his seat was declared vacant while he received medical treatment in Singapore.
The supreme court subsequently declared him the rightful leader, plunging the country into turmoil before Mr O'Neill eventually resumed the role after governor-general Michael Ogio backtracked on Sir Michael's appointment.
Mr O'Neill has remained the effective prime minister with the support of the public service, police, defence force and most MPs despite attempts by Sir Michael, including a botched coup, to return to power.
All matters stayed, Judges to deal with reference raised by Marat
By TODAGIA KELOLA and GORETHY KENNETH
THE Supreme Court yesterday waded out of the quagmire caused by the political impasse by taking a major step towards a road map to resolve the issues at hand.
The three men bench comprising Deputy Chief Justice Gibbs Salika, Justices Bernard Sakora and Nicholas Kirriwom stayed all matters afoot at the court except to deal with references raised by Attorney General Dr Allan Marat.
The Supreme Court will first determine the Section 19 Special Reference filed by Dr Marat and then move to address all other proceedings.
aside the stay orders of Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia’s suspension.
The three judges agreed that all proceedings including the contempt proceedings are stayed until the determination of the reference.
Next Monday the same bench will sit and decide on how many members of the bench will hear the reference and will also make directions to fast track the substantive hearing of the reference.
This decision effectively stays the suspension of Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia by the Governor General and restored him to his post as head of the judiciary.
This now means that the other 13 proceedings which were filed in the National Court and the Supreme Court including all the contempt charges and an application by the Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and the NEC to set aside the stay order on the suspension of Justice Sir Salamo are stayed until the determination of the Supreme Court Reference.
When the court resumed yesterday morning Deputy Chief Justice Gibbs Salika delivered the three men’s decision stating that the Marat Reference should be dealt with first because it deals with the legitimacy of the Government and that all other proceedings relating to it will have to wait until the reference is determined.
The reference to be dealt with relates to 29 questions raised by Dr Marat in the Supreme Court after the events of December 12 last year when the Supreme Court ruled 3-2 that the August 2 election of Prime Minister O’Neill was unconstitutional and reinstated grand chief Sir Michael Somare as PM.
The questions deal with the decisions of Parliament between December 9 to 12 which relate to the vacancy in the East Sepik Provincial Seat held by Sir Michael, amendments to Prime Minister and NEC Act 2002 and the election of O’Neill as the Prime Minister.
The three men bench then sought the views of the lawyers. The O’Neill team agreed in principle with Counsel Manuel Varitmos for deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah, handing up a draft order for an extension of his clients bail conditions.
The Counsel for the Supreme and National Court Registrar asked if the contempt proceedings initiated by his client can be treated separately in that maybe only some are related to the legitimacy question.
Counsel representing Sir Michael Somare, Mr Kerenga Kua supported the Registrar’s submission but stated that they have two issues in the matter. These are the standing of the Referrer Dr Allan Marat on whether he has standing to file a section 19 reference; and that their contempt proceedings SCOS 1 of 2012 can also be dealt with because it basically deals with the enforcement of a Supreme Court order which is yet to be effected up until now.
This triggered discussions on the competency issue between the Judges and Mr Kua.
Justice Sakora asked if these proceedings can be adjourned until the legitimacy question is determined. He also stated that after 36 years there is no record of the court been sent to the enforcement arena while the Justice Salika said “we may not have anyone with standing for the section 19 reference”.
Lawyers Tiffany Twivey and Michael Wilson also enquired on their application to set aside a contempt proceedings against them and their client and an application to set
New York (BoerseGo.de) – Die von Bloomberg befragten Analysten und Händler sind für den Kupfermarkt erstmals seit sieben Wochen wieder bullisch gestimmt. Aufgrund der fallenden Lagerbestände (2-Jahrestief an der London Metal Exchange) rechnet die Mehrheit der Experten in der nächsten Woche mit einem Kursplus.
Dreizehn der 25 befragten Analysten erwarten, dass das Metall zulegen wird. Drei Experten sind neutral eingestellt. Neun haben dagegen eher Verluste auf der Rechnung.
"Kupfer ist immer ein guter Indikator für die zu erwartende Wirtschaftsentwicklung. Da es an den Finanzmärkten zuletzt überwiegend Kurssteigerungen gegeben hat, sind die Leute wieder optimistischer geworden“, sagte Dan Smith, Analyst bei Standard Chartered.
Kupfer hat seit Jahresbeginn an der London Metal Exchange um 14 Prozent auf 8.668,25 US-Dollar pro Tonne zugelegt, was der beste Jahresstart seit dem Jahr 2009 ist. Der Standard & Poor‘s GSCI Index, der die Entwicklung von 24 Rohstoffen abbildet, konnte im gleichen Zeitraum „nur“ um 5,3 Prozent zuleg
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Dass die Pilliphiner ausgerechnet die BOC Assets besuchen.........?
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Antony Lowenstein
Here in Papua New Guinea, the local media is filled with stories that economic growth in Asia will help the local people:
Papua New Guinea is well positioned and poised to reap huge benefits from the fast growing economies of Asia.
ANZ Group Bank chief executive Mike Smith said closer trade and investment ties with Asia, in particular China and India, can transform PNG’s economy.
Mr Smith, who arrived in Port Moresby on Tuesday and addressed a cocktail night at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, said PNG should continue to position itself to capture the expanding trade flows between Asia and the Pacific. Mr Smith is in Port Moresby to meet with customers, government representatives and ANZ bank staff.
Frankly, it’s hard to take these predictions seriously. Massive mineral wealth has brought little benefits for the vast majority of citizens in PNG. In Africa, per a new report, we see the same paradox:
This week, NGO Global Witness published its latest report on the oil, gas and mining industry in Africa. Running at 40 densely-written pages, the work looks in detail at the industry in three countries: Angola, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
All three, says the report, have been afflicted by the Resource Curse, or ‘paradox of plenty’. The countries all have an abundance of natural resources, but suffer from extreme poverty.
Angola and Nigeria ‘are two of the largest oil producing countries in Africa’ – respectively, oil provided 63% of government revenues in 2009 in Angola, and 40% of government revenues in 2011 in Nigeria.
‘…their citizens, however remain amongst the poorest in the world, with approximately 70% of Angolans and 80% of Nigerians living on less than two US dollars a day.’
The DRC, meanwhile, ranks bottom on the UN’s Human Development Index despite a vast wealth of natural resources – particularly in mining.
The main problem in Angola and Nigeria, says the report, is the opacity of oil contracts in the two countries. While their governments have sought to ‘demonstrate greater transparency in the payments received from the oil sector’ over recent years, regulation and public scrutiny of allotted contracts is severely lacking. In addition, it appears that government officials could be shareholders of the very companies that have been awarded major extraction contracts.
In Angola, Global Witness unearthed a number of indigenous oil companies that have been able to obtain shares in oil. They ‘do not disclose publicly their beneficial owners, or, when they do, some of the shareholders have the same names as senior public officials’, the report reveals, ‘creating public suspicion’.
............u. der Info von L. dass Meekamui´s u. LO`s mit Vorbereitungen beschäftigt sind......
"and that more than 100 former commanders of central and south stand ready to receive the Cabinet at the Aropa Airport later this month."
..........so muss die Aropa Airport Landepiste erstmal von Gras u. Gestrüpp befreit werden, bevor dort überhaupt ein Flugzeug landen kann.
Die offizielle Bestätigung eines verbindlichen Datums der Meetings vom PNG Parlament steht noch aus.
Bleibt zu hoffen dass die Terminierung sich nicht so lange hinzieht wie Wülfchens Abgang
Unsere Bougies werden nicht mehr zur Berechnung des Beleihungswertes des Depots berücksichtigt!
Genaue Gründe konnte mir die Dame nicht nennen!
Finde das schon etwas merkwürdig. Wenn die wüssten, dass die bald 10€ Wert sind :-)
Ich hoffe, dass es nun nicht bei dem einen oder anderen zu Zwangsverkäufen kommen muss, so dass der Kurs noch tiefer fällt!
Jedes Konto hat doch eine Basis, zur Bestimmung des Beleihungswertes und diese ändert sich eben, wird geringer.
AROPA airport, once Bougainville’s gateway to the world, will be open to the outside world soon.
The Me’ekamui soldiers, former hardliners and landowners of the Aropa airport have agreed to open up the runway to receive the dead bodies of central and south Bougainvilleans who died on the ill-fated MV Rabaul Queen voyage who will be flown direct to the mainland.
This is to make it easier for the relatives to come and receive the bodies of their children and relatives who died when the ship sank near the Lae waters.
Communications Minister and Central Bougainville MP Jimmy Miringtoro said in Port Moresby yesterday that this is an agreement reached with the once rebel hardliners of the region and those that own and who man the runway.
Mr Miringtoro said that the Me’ekamui soldiers in Central Bougainville including the landowners of Aropa have agreed that they are partly responsible for what had happened, specifically the death of Bougainvilleans from the tragic sinking.
“You see, the Me’ekamui have said they are partly to be blamed for the loss of lives of specifically mainland Bougainvilleans who use the Sharp ferries more often to travel abroad in search of further education.
These are the parents whose children have suffered and mostly affected by the 10-year Bougainville Crisis and most of them come from Kieta, Siwai and Buin,” Mr Miringtoro said.
“They have agreed to open up Aropa airport. The bodies of those in Central and South Bougainville will be flown by air and the plane will land at the Aropa airport to make it easier for the relatives of those that have lost their loved ones,” Mr Miringtoro said.
The bodies will come directly to Aropa airport once the Government or the authorities on the ground complete and are ready to release the bodies of those found dead in the sinking ship.”
He said that those in authority of the Aropa Airport had said that if it was open and in operation lives of the innocent Bougainvilleans would have been saved.
“By sending them via the ship was basically the easier means of travelling out of Buka, given the limited flights and seats with the only airline that services the air route to Bougainville through Buka Island.
“This will now change,” Mr Miringtoro said.
Die Pangunalandeigner haben sich schon vor Jahren für BOC u. RIO entschieden (We want BCL back) auch wenn der Grund wenig schmeichelhaft ist (.......better the devil we know)
Aus den Gesprächsprotokollen der verschiedenen Meetings geht klar hervor dass bis jetzt noch keine einzige Alternative zu BOC diskutiert wurde u. dass die LO´s auch einer evtl. chinesischen Beteiligung in der Pangunamine äusserst reserviert gegenüberstehen.
Die für ende des Monats geplanten JSB u. NEC Meetings sollten darüber definitiv Klarheit verschaffen.
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Das ist doch kurios,gab es doch alleine weit über 40 Mill nach USA leerverkaufte Böcke, welche gehebelt zum grössten Teil als ADRs in Umlauf waren.
Kurz nach dem Ende des ADR Programms wechselten in AU ca 15 Mill. Shares den Besitzer. (oder die Tasche) was wohl der Summe der nicht zum Tausch eingereichten ADRs entsprach.Dass es in USA keine BOC Aktionäre mehr geben sollte erscheint da zumindest zweifelhaft.
Stellt sich die Frage wieso in USA keine Shares mehr umgesetzt werden, bzw. der Handel unterdrückt wird?
Versucht doch mal eine K-Order in USA aufzugeben.;-)))))))))))))
Bei Ablehnung der Order:
Bitte Angabe der Gründe,
Name des Nominees,
Name des Market Makers,
am besten das Ganze in schriftlicher Form.
Und jetzt noch die Geschichte von consors bzw.pezz??Hat jemand Ideen das alles in einen Zusammenhang zu bringen?
Ich weiß nicht, was ich davon halten soll.
Allerdings: Für mich ist es absolut ungewöhnlich, wenn bei einer imho so wichtigen Veränderung der Geschäftsgrundlagen wie der Berechnung des Beleihungswertes eines Depots die (alle ???) Kunden angerufen werden, um ihnen diese Veränderung (nur ???) auf diesem Wege mitzuteilen. Und das dann auch noch von einer "unwissenden" Dame, die nicht in der Lage ist, eine Begründung für diese Maßnahme zu liefern???
Solange das Ganze in diesem Einzelfall "BCL" nicht schriftlich bekanntgegeben resp. die Geschäftsbedingungen nicht entsprechend verändert wurden, kann ich nicht erkennen, dass solche Veränderung wirksam ist.
Wäre ich der Angerufene, würde ich aufgrund meiner Neugierde diese Angelegenheit nicht so auf sich beruhen lassen ...
Diese belaufen sich je nach Risikoklasse 1-5 in einer Range von 80-40%
Bis zum 31.12 betrug der Beleihungswert in 1-80%,2-80%,3-60%,4-60%,5-50%
Für Wertpapiere der Risikoklasse 5 wird der Beleihungswert von 1 Position auf maximal 50K € beschränkt.
Dies wurde den Kunden per Rundschreiben vom 28.10. mitgeteilt.
Das ganze sollte auch nur eine Vorabinfo sein. Offiziell kommt das dann schriftlich!
Hatte denn nur ich diesen Anruf? Hier sind doch mehrere, die ihr Depot bei ConSors haben.
Mein gesamt Depotwert ist mit ca. 1,5% beliehen, nur mal so zur Info!!!