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PNG Blogs Contributor Network The amount of money being spent by the National Gaming Control Board on full page advertisements in our two dailies that announce a ban on hi/low lotteries is becoming more conspicuous with every passing week. Why is the Gaming Control Board so concerned with this? Not surprisingly, It has to do with Prime Minister Peter O’Steal, who along with his cronies, is worried about his pokies machine empire is being threatened. Yes, this is the same Prime Minister who was telling all the churches only a few years ago that gambling was bad for the people and that he planned to control gambling. Why? Because behind the scenes O’Steal was buying up the pokies parlours in PNG and trying to get a monopoly on the business, which of course would earn him millions. Everyone knows that O’Steal’s pub, known as Paddy’s Bar in Boroko, has pokies. So much for O’Steal’s pious speeches to the pastors. But O’Steal was looking for more than a few pokies in his bar. He

PNG Blogs Contributor Network Our country sadly seems to attract mostly fly by night and dubious foreign investment these days. For every legitimate ExxonMobil type company who invests in PNG (which is only here because of the vast amount of profits it can make off the LNG project), there are dozens of dubious businessmen, organisations or groups (Hello, LR????) whose world presence seems to always associate with third world dictatorships and easy resource money. Somehow (!!!!!!!) they shady businessmen and businesses always manage to get their foot in the door of the PM’s office almost as easily as ExxonMobil. Puma Energy replaced InterOil (whose world presence apart from PNG is almost nothing), coming with its own less than shiny reputation and background ( see PNGblogs article here ). As always, our Post Courier and National protect these organisations and generally stays away from reporting anything negative about them. It is part of the deception of the people of Papua New G

A senior police investigator and his family were attacked last night. Patrick Premenga is part of the investigating team tasked to affect the arrest of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. However, policemen alleged to be associated with the Prime Minister retaliated by mobilising and attacked the investigator and his family. The incident happened under cover of darkness last night. Heavily-armed policemen surrounded the premises and held Patrick Premenga and his family under house arrest. They demanded for Premenga to not serve them with contempt charges. Mr Premenga said the incident has affected him and his family. The neighbours were also traumatised but too scared to recall what had transpired. Mr Premenga is appealing to the police hierarchy to maintain control and command following the incident. He also wants the Prime Minister to be aware of what is happening amongst members of the disciplined force. In recent times, police have used excessive force against the public,

By a National Planning Bureaucrat I find the longer comments and  debates that are posted directly on the PNGBlogs page to be more thought out and revealing than the hurriedly posted comments on Facebook PNGBlogs.   There aren’t many supporters of Peter O’Neil giving comments on the social media and that is true on PNGBlogs too.  There are a few however and its worth paying close attention to their words. It reveals why they would so vocally support a man who carries such heavy baggage as being disreputable and corrupt.  For PNG to elect and re-elect a nearly proven conman like him would not be unexpected considering that we suffer under such low education standards and lack of information available to everyone. Recently on many social media sites we find more comments, speculation and suspicion that the PM is secretly putting a plan in place to create a dictatorship without need for fighting or violence.   Even without the violence this would normally be a repulsive goal unde

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