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By GABRIEL RAMOI The most revealing aspect of the  ADB study is not the information  put forward  by the writers  in support of  Privatisation but of the lack of critical  information  that the study should  have  generated  in assisting  policy debate in PNG  as to how  PNG can solve the lack of basic services to the bulk of its people in terms of the Provision  for  the Supply of Clean Treated Piped Water. The supply of Electricity to each house  and  the cost of  supplying  and providing  durable Housing  to the  7 million People of PNG .  The Debate on Privatisation in PNG ended  with the removal of Sir Mekere  as  Prime Minister  in 2002 following the loss of   life’s  and  national  indignation  directed at the World Bank Structural  adjustment Program  and on  Native  Land registration Agenda which is the other critical pillar of the Privatisation debate.  Privatisation has led Ireland and Greece to the brink of Bankruptcy and is a path that PNG has chosen not to follow. The  un

By GABRIEL RAMOI The most revealing aspect of the  ADB study is not the information  put forward  by the writers  in support of  Privatisation but of the lack of critical  information  that the study should  have  generated  in assisting  policy debate in PNG  as to how  PNG can solve the lack of basic services to the bulk of its people in terms of the Provision  for  the Supply of Clean Treated Piped Water. The supply of Electricity to each house  and  the cost of  supplying  and providing  durable Housing  to the  7 million People of PNG .  The Debate on Privatisation in PNG ended  with the removal of Sir Mekere  as  Prime Minister  in 2002 following the loss of   life’s  and  national  indignation  directed at the World Bank Structural  adjustment Program  and on  Native  Land registration Agenda which is the other critical pillar of the Privatisation debate.  Privatisation has led Ireland and Greece to the brink of Bankruptcy and is a path that PNG has chosen not to follow.

By DAVID MURI P hoto Cred it : Malum Nalu DO animals inhabit Port Moresby? Many visitors would think so. Because the city’s entire length and breadth is overshadowed by stink and filth. This supposedly modern metropolis – Papua New Guinea’s largest – replicates more or less a pigsty, where animals of the lowest echelon dwell and breed. I am forced into this filthy issue because I see that junks, which are hardly found in pavements of any other capital cities on earth, are hastily dumped here. Why? Should we say Papua New Guineans have animal brains and could not distinguish good from bad? Or are we still primitives and could not differentiate between right and wrong? I am briefly breathing fresh air here in North Lakes, a quiet Brisbane suburb of some thousand residents. I left on Independence Day to commemorate our big day with other patriotic PNG residents here. I know Port Moresby is home, but I want to be frank and make some sincere comparisons here. Port Moresby is our capital whi

By DAVID MURI P hoto Cred it : Malum Nalu DO animals inhabit Port Moresby? Many visitors would think so. Because the city’s entire length and breadth is overshadowed by stink and filth. This supposedly modern metropolis – Papua New Guinea’s largest – replicates more or less a pigsty, where animals of the lowest echelon dwell and breed. I am forced into this filthy issue because I see that junks, which are hardly found in pavements of any other capital cities on earth, are hastily dumped here. Why? Should we say Papua New Guineans have animal brains and could not distinguish good from bad? Or are we still primitives and could not differentiate between right and wrong? I am briefly breathing fresh air here in North Lakes, a quiet Brisbane suburb of some thousand residents. I left on Independence Day to commemorate our big day with other patriotic PNG residents here. I know Port Moresby is home, but I want to be frank and make some sincere comparisons here. Port Moresby is our capi

By CHRISTOPHER PAPIALI In the name of the political game in Papua New Guinea, what we see is the crucifixion of rival candidates, business opponents, and MPs on opposing sides. It has been a norm and it is becoming a norm despite major political transitions in the life of the national parliament and continuous constitutional amendments. So we ask: Would this form of payback system stop forever or continue? After 37 years of uninterrupted lowering of Australian flag, the country has changed a lot and one cannot disrepute this major observation because a lot of our people can affirm this major transition. What has not changed is the tendency of the payback culture within our political and bureaucratic system. This week the current government has nailed the former Gaming Board chief, Mr. Simon Sanagke, who was a major rival candidate to Hon. William Duma. The government has extended its muscle and tussled Former Speaker, Hon. Jeffrey Nape, who was a major rival to Hon. Kerenga Kua, whom t

By CHRISTOPHER PAPIALI In the name of the political game in Papua New Guinea, what we see is the crucifixion of rival candidates, business opponents, and MPs on opposing sides. It has been a norm and it is becoming a norm despite major political transitions in the life of the national parliament and continuous constitutional amendments. So we ask: Would this form of payback system stop forever or continue? After 37 years of uninterrupted lowering of Australian flag, the country has changed a lot and one cannot disrepute this major observation because a lot of our people can affirm this major transition. What has not changed is the tendency of the payback culture within our political and bureaucratic system. This week the current government has nailed the former Gaming Board chief, Mr. Simon Sanagke, who was a major rival candidate to Hon. William Duma. The government has extended its muscle and tussled Former Speaker, Hon. Jeffrey Nape, who was a major rival to Hon. Kerenga Kua, w

With an expected budget deficit of K500+ million for 2012 and the intent to borrow K6 billion from China, the O’Neil Government intends to STEAL MORE FROM FUTURE GENERATIONS from the anticipated LNG benefits. The national debt from foreign and domestic lenders accrued over the last few decades already tips the scales at K9 billion. The K6 billion from Exim Bank will close to double the national debt overnight to a whopping K15 billion. Sovereign investment funds generate economic security for future generations by converting “endowments” of natural resources into financial endowments. Some of them are so-called “permanent funds,” born of the philosophy that benefits from a country’s nonrenewable resources belong to all future generations, not just to the generation that discovered them. National laws should be made to ensure the current and future governments don’t use up the principle from the LNG cashflows but only live off the interest from these funds so the value of principle amou