Category: Positive Laws
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Bernard Narokobi – leader, legislator, poet
GREGORY BABLIS PORT MORESBY – In 1995 when Bernard Narokobi was Papua New Guinea’s minister for agriculture, he, Bart Philemon and Jerry Nalau voted against prime minister Julius Chan’s proposed bill for an organic law on provincial and local level governments. Given the ongoing conflict in Bougainville in its violent bid for secession, the three…
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PNG and France: Bridging the gap through science
SCIENTISTS around the world, especially in France, are astonished by PNG’s large rainforest and its biodiversity, says France’s Ambassador Philippe Janvier-Kamiyama. Janvier-Kamiyama was speaking at Government House in Port Moresby after presenting his credentials to acting Governor-General and Speaker Job Pomat. “Your country has the third largest primary rainforest in the world, whose biodiversity is…
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New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being
In a world-first a New Zealand river has been granted the same legal rights as a human being. The local Māori tribe of Whanganui in the North Island has fought for the recognition of their river – the third-largest in New Zealand – as an ancestor for 140 years. On Wednesday, hundreds of tribal representatives wept with…
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New Zealand gives Mount Taranaki same legal rights as a person
The sacred mountain in the North Island is the third geographic feature in the country to be granted a ‘legal personality’ Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is to be granted the same legal rights as a person, becoming the third geographic feature in the country to be granted a “legal personality”. Eight local Māori tribes and the…
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‘Narokobi, a man of law’
PAPUA New Guinea Law Society president Kerenga Kua has described the late Bernard Narokobi as a man who dedicated his entire life to the service of the rule of law. “Every once in a while comes a man who expresses an ideology that gives an alternative way forward for a nation. “For PNG, Mr Narokobi…