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By Mangi Souths What kind of bullcrap is coming out of the mouth of James Marape now?  This fat fellow is very wrong that Hela has been without electricity since the early 1990’s when Hides gas field was opened up to supply Pogera.   There has been generator power in Tari off and on.   The issue is that the power lines from Hides to Pogera went past Tari all these years not one person in government said to the operator of Hides and Pogera that this was unacceptable.  People of Tari and Hela first before Pogera profits.   Those who neglected this issue include you, James Marape!  How many times have you been in Tari since you became MP and it did not come into your mind how unfair the situation is about Pogera getting first priority and the people of Hela no priority to use this electricity?  Are you only now making this discovery or too worried about putting more money in your pockets to make it a priority for action.  Isn’t this why we have the power shortage in the first place? Po

By Former Journalist Intellectual Papua New Guineans with access to the internet who have been trying to learn more about the mysterious LR Group of Israel, which is tight with the O’Neill government on many fronts, will find several obstacles thrown onto their path. All along it was easy to mis-associate LR Group’s name with the multinational insurance corporation Lloyds Registry, which also appears on the internet as LR Group.   Lloyd’s has nothing to do with the Israeli LR Group.   Lloyd’s insures projects and facilities in many countries, including many projected related to power generation.   Lloyd’s Registry web site is at www.lr.org, with their PNG business handled by its Cairns office.  Many pages connected with the insurer will come up when googling for information on the Israeli LR Group, including web pages discussing power generation projects.   Don’t confuse the two companies as our politicians may be doing when they support LR Group without being clear that they have no

By JERALD LAMA I am confused about what is going on with Air Niugini being on the list for privatisation.  In one part of a recent official statement on State Owned Enterprises our Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has said that Air Niugini has “maintained a high level of customer service that is internationally acceptable”.   Yet only a few paragraphs further in the same press release, the PM states that SOEs “have not fully been able to realize its potential and its ability to deliver world class services”.  Which is it?  Is Air Niugini delivering internationally acceptable services or not? This is the latest example of our Prime Minister’s tendency to lie without thinking.   Sometimes his turnaround statements come so quick that a high schooler can tell that the PM is talking against his own talk.   It is hard to trust a leader who is so easy to catch telling lies.  When do we believe and when not?   When he often says two opposite things about the same topic at the same time,

By: Forces of Me’ekamui People once knew him as Father Momis, a young earnest Catholic priest determined to free PNG of Australian colonial domination and make it independent.   Father Momis was one of PNG’s founding fathers.   However, time has passed and so has Momis.  Ever since John Momis returned from his time as PNG Ambassador to China, his friends could see that something had changed in his brain.  Used to be he was overflowing with good talk about PNG and the potential we all had to create our nation in the form we wanted, free of unsolicited foreign influence.   Momis was a real patriot, a true PNG nationalist.  But something happened during his time in China and his views changed.  Now he couldn’t say enough about all the wonderful things about Chinese and China. After he became President of the Autonomous Government of Bougainville, it started to become clear that Momis had changed from Blak Sauspen to Turangu Kokonas.  He had become white or maybe yellow on the inside. Th

By ROIT S MULAN Those who have business interest in a particular industry would design a situation to create their opportunity. It is believed that some of the wars in many countries of the world are orchestrated by weapon producers. Similarly, sometimes, if the electrical supply is all of a sudden inefficient and we have constant blackouts, don’t take it for granted. Sometimes our doom and glooms are by design. Let me show you how it happens. By design, Minister for Public Enterprise Ben Micah announced on a particular day some few weeks ago of the Government’s intention to sell 50 % of PNG Power Ltd. In the same newspaper, the CEO of PNG Power pretended to have known nothing. Within the same week, the National Newspaper ran two stories in the front pages, one for the sale of the PNG power 50% share and another one concerning the presentation of a feasibility study LR Group conducted in Hela Province for the supply of reliable electricity. LR claimed that it can use the sam

By UNDIRI PEIYO Concerned Christians are closely watching the continuing development of what seems to be a secret satanic cult set up by Peter O’Neill and recruiting other MPs.   Cult members can be easily identified by the clothes they wear namely the Mao Suit, an unusual clothing started by Mao Zedong the atheist who set up communist dictatorship in China.     Of all world leaders, only Mao Zedong, North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un and Peter O’Neill have ever worn this symbol of Godless government and evil intent.   An agreement signed by proudly atheist former Australian PM Julia Gillard and Peter O’Neill couple years back was disguised as a PNG-Australian agreement but sources say this was said to cover up the real intent of the agreement signed and exchanged by Julia Gillard and Peter O’Neill. Lucky that people of Australia later sent the Godless Gillard packing but evil is with us and growing in PNG.       Now Francis Awesa started wearing the Mao suit as seem in

By MARK MAINO On Wednesday, 17 September, PNG Blogs ran another article on the mysterious LR Group of Israel and its PNG activities (“ Israel’s Shadowy LR Group Graduates From Growing Veggies To Buying PNG Power Corporation. Anyone Smell a Rotten Egg? ” .    In one part of the article it mentioned a long ago announced LR Group project in PNG, “major industrial complex to cater for animal husbandry, crop farming, training, storage and marketing” that thy would be developing, starting in SHP.  This was in 2011 and the author of the PNGBlogs article questioned what had happened to this and was it ever built. Only 2 days after that article came out on the social media, and following 3 years of essentially no news about the project, a photo was published in the PostCourier, showing none other than Anderson Agiru and James Marape holding eggs at the LR Group’s starting operations in SHP. Was the timing of the photo so soon after the PNG Blogs article was published a coinci

By Wilson M Taku  The photo is out in the open and the silent majority has spoken on PNG Blogs.   As of this writing, 291 Facebookers gave a thumbs up to PNG Blogs publishing the photo of Patrick Pruaitch looking like a smelly, sweaty street drunk.  This, the man who is the Minister of the Treasury.   Yes, the silent majority appreciated the exposure of Patrick Pruaitch.   The vocal minority felt differently.  About 85% of those who spoke out with an opinion were against PNG Blogs putting up the Pruaitch photo.  The repeated message of these postings was that Pruaitch has the right to act silly and stupid in private, and that privacy should be respected.   One wonders about the personal lives of the 85% who didn’t like Pruaitch’s picture being posted.  How many of these Facebookers have their own personal tendency to act worse than Pruaitch?    How many of those who hate what PNG Blogs did by publishing the photos so strongly defend the right of others to misbehave in the hopes

Maximising the full potential of the Extractive Industries Transparency initiative By JONATHAN PELI Papua New Guinea is endowed with huge reserves of oil, gas, gold, copper and other solid minerals. Over 78% of its exports derive from these natural resources. In an effort to improve transparency and governance of the country’s mining, oil and gas sectors, in 2013 the government of Papua New Guinea applied to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global coalition of governments, companies and civil society working together to improve openness and accountable management of revenues from natural resources. Signing up to EITI was a condition of the Australian government’s support for the PNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project worth AUD$30-50m in aid plus a AUD$500M loan through the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation. On the 19 March 2014 the board of the EITI approved Papua New Guinea’s application for EITI candidate status. The experience of oth

By FRANK MALILONG - SUN STAR NEWSPAPER, CEBU ONE early morning in the first week of June, last year, TV reporter Jinky Bargio chanced upon a group of rowdy foreigners near the old Rustan’s in Gen. Maxilom Avenue. When she saw the men throw bottles onto the street, stop passing vehicles and harass the drivers, Jinky knew she had a good story and got out of their vehicle. Soon they were recording the commotion. When they saw what Jinky and her crew were doing, the men took umbrage and attempted to confiscate the camera. Fortunately, the police arrived just in time to avert a confrontation between the TV crew and the foreigners who were later identified as Papua New Guineans. They were drunk. And apparently it was not their first brush with the law because when they arrived at the Fuente Police station, one of the policemen blurted, “it’s you again?”. In fact, there have been so many cases of Papua New Guineans, most of whom are enrolled in Cebu schools, being arrested for breach of the

By: FED UP STAFF MEMBER Bmobile Vodafone lack of management skills are in doubt again since the past and current redundant staffs have not been served with their STATEMENT OF EARNINGS as required under the IRC Policy and Regulations Act. To date most of these redundant staffs have been constantly communicating with the Bmobile Human Resource Department in relation to their entitlement payments of tax calculations and seem all efforts for assistances have fallen on deaf ears. The current employees have also confirmed they are yet to receive their STATEMENT OF EARNINGS from the Management as well. How can Bmobile Vodafone with a small team of nationals not provide such documents for their employees nor have such information on record? Can the Group CEO of Bmobile Vodafone, Sundar Ramamurthy and his Human Resource Advisor/Consultant Chris Taukuro explain the reasons for such a long delay for the past redundant staff as six (6) months is a long wait for any form of response from Bmobil