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Please share this photo and story if you feel any genuine compassion and sadness for what happened to this elderly woman. I really believe that anyone who saw this front page photo on the Post Courier today and didn’t get tears in their eyes or feel sick to their stomach has a soul that borders on the inhuman.   The sadness of seeing the young boy hugging his dead grandmother’s body was almost overwhelming as I put my mind inside that boy’s mind.   Sadness changed to anger thinking about the injustice of what happened.  The boy lost his grandmother because NCDC Buai Gestapo agents attacked and chased her into the street trying to take her betelnut and her K30.  Terrified and not looking where she was going, she was hit by a car and killed.  The Parkop/Tkatchenko street thugs then ran away like the cowards they are, leaving her to die. Should any of you argue back, “it was the grandmother’s fault,” don’t bother.  Your personality type is clear.  People with your attitude can l

By Gary Jepulamani For months the O’Neill government through its mouthpiece Ben Micah and confirmed by the Prime Minister himself, has said that the government cannot afford to keep subsidising Air Niugini and PNG Power Ltd. They presented this argument as their strongest rationale for wanting to offload at least 49% of those operations to private shareholders. So what’s going on with Telikom? From an investment standpoint, Telikom is a no brainer. No private investor in their right mind would sink money into a state owned enterprise that they don’t expect to get a healthy profit from. Amongst all PNG SOEs, Telikom is one of the least attractive investment propositions, which is why the government is not even bothering to put it up for sale right now. In the world of competition, Telikom is legendary for constantly missing the boat. It lost out on both the mobile phone and the internet waves. Its data modems required special registration and instructions few people co

PETER O'NEILL FOLLOWS THE SUCCESSFUL MODEL OF ADOLF HITLER AND BENITO MUSSOLINI USING INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION TO WIN PEOPLE’S HEARTS AND MINDS   By Martin Haku Peter ONeill’s oratory abilities are not even close to matching that of Papua New Guinea’s Founding Father Michael Somare and of many current highlands politicians.  ONeill is not even on the same planet as Adolf Hitler in terms of charisma and the ability to mesmerise the audience.  Comparing Peter ONeill with Adolf Hitler seems bizarre on the face of it but looking deeper, there is one thing about Papua New Guinea’s current Prime Minister that follows the Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy strategy for winning the hearts of the people, as it took place in the years between World Wars I and II.  That is the creation of infrastructure, lots of it, over a very short time. HITLER’S NEW ROAD WON THE PEOPLE’S HEARTS IN GERMANY Hitler’s infrastructure legacy began with the first modern superhighways in the worl

Dear Bank of PNG and NASFUND Board, By TAITA VAGI TAU* I am a NASFUND member that is dead broke thanks to NASFUND. ANZ nearly repossessed my house so I had to borrow heavily from wantoks and street money sellers to pay off my arrears. I was without employment when my employer did a restructure in 2013. To put bread and butter on the table and pay for school fees, I used the little finish pay to buy and sell gold. This was not at all enough to help me service my mortgage with ANZ. After three months of unemployment in November 2013, I submitted a temporary unemployment withdrawal form with NASFUND. This was knocked back by NASFUND staffs the reason being they saw in my account I was depositing money from gold buying and selling. In the meantime I continued to rack up housing loan arrears with ANZ and all my request for NASFUND to help me withdraw my funds to pay off my housing loan dinau didn’t go anywhere with NASFUND. I did some investigations on NASFUND and just realised t

By JEFFREY RUNDUALI Peter O’Steal has done such damage to the national finances in the short time he has been in charge that he is now being forced to bring forward the 2015 Budget. It was originally to have been brought before Parliament in the first or second week of this month’s sitting, but the Government is in such disarray that legislation has not been prepared. Also, the Treasurer, who is ill with a "mystery disease", cannot get back to Port Moresby in time (another fat, greedy and greasy politician who has stolen enough money not to have to rely on the national medical health system, which is being systematically raped by Mr O’Steal and his cronies). Bringing the Budget down this month would have the additional benefit of protecting Mr O’Steal and his closest political cronies and beneficiaries from the vote of no confidence being planned for this month’s sitting. The forthcoming Constitutional reference on the grace periods is expe