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Sara Ringat More than 90% of the population of Port Moresby didn’t traditionally come from the lands of Port Moresby.  Instead, they or their parents migrated to Port Moresby from someplace else in PNG.  But now that they’re here, they don’t want anyone else to have the same opportunity that they, their parents, or others in their family had.    Now they want to stop immigration into Port Moresby.   In their hazy brain filled with selfishness and greed, they forget that they or their parents, pushed out customary landowners directly or indirectly in their own migration into Port Moresby.   Yes, they seem to forget about that.   These self righteous migrants or descendants of migrants to Port Moresby also seem to forget that the pockets of most migrants were not full of money when they arrived, but often completely empty.   These, the first urban poor of PNG. struggled, frequently lived as squatters and worked their way up slowly in economic status.   They saved their money to send

By Angry Former Policeman The Post Courier confirmed the corrupt takeover by rogue police of the National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate on Wednesday.  Were they hoping to find and destroy evidence do disable the Directorate?   Geoffrey Vaki is trying to get control of the Directorate for obvious reasons.    Honouring his master O’Neill, Vaki wants the unit ineffective so that it takes no action against his Sugar Daddy Prime Minister.  This is the same Geoffrey Vaki who spoilt the reputation of the uniform he wears several years ago by throwing a woman out of his moving vehicle.  That is the kind of role model that Geoffrey Vaki is. As long as Geoffrey Vaki is destined to be our corrupt police commissioner for awhile, lets accept the inevitable and help him train his police force so that they also follow the Vaki way and do what Geoffrey Vaki deep down approves of.   Carry on, Mr Vaki.  We know your history and what you stand for.  Here are some posters you can u

By David Igata Meet the poorest president of the world, in the democratic country of Uruguay.  The poorest president in the world is Jose Mujica.  He has been president of Uruguay since 2010. President Mujica gives 90% of his salary away to charity every year, choosing NGOs that help poor people and small business entrepreneurs.  How much does our Peter O’Neill give to charity?  We don’t know.  We don’t even know how much money Peter O’Neill has or he makes.  We don’t even know for certain how he makes his money, except the rumours, or how he made so much money in so few years.  That is how crazy secretive our country is.  But we allow it. The average Papua New Guinean has on idea how much money Peter O’Neill makes but the average citizen of the still developing country of Uruguay knows how much President Mujica makes per fortnight.  It is pretty good salary, about what our own MPs make.  About K14,800 per fortnight but that is before taxes are removed.   However President

By LUCAS KIAP When wanted criminals such the late William Kapris are set after by the law, people are so quick to jump into their conclusions, wanting nothing more than the death verdict even without being tried and found guilty by a competent court of law. It is so easy for a criminal to be chased by the law than a politician who is offcourse elected by the people unlike a criminal who decide his own faith to steal. What we have come to terms with over the last few years since Peter O’Neill become the only PM in the history of this great country to topple an elected government in a coup like leadership grabbing has attracted so much attention that he has become the focal point of public attention, like a top criminal wanted by the law. If anything would take to neutralise and divert public attention away from being wanted by the law, no one can do better than Peter O’Neill. He has been, apart from portraying his public image, becoming a celebrity figure more than a PM.

By Paul Flanagan  On 30 September, PNG’s central bank (BPNG) released their six monthly monetary policy statement. This was a mixture of good and bad news. I mentioned in a blog a couple of weeks ago that possibly the only thing more boring in economics than exchange rates was monetary aggregates. So this blog will go into these monetary aggregates but once again, there are some very important development issues tucked away among the technical details. Indeed, there are some very worrying steps being taken that auger poorly for PNG’s international credibility and ultimately its future development. Good news On the good news side. First, it is positive that the statement came out and continued a positive pattern of transparency of major six-monthly updates (on top of shorter monthly updates). Some countries don’t do this – and this can damage their credibility. Second, the updates on some of the behind-the-scenes work that make for a more efficient economy are impressive. Improv

By O’Neill’s Supporter - MENDI I welcome the news of Telikom wanting to buy Nau FM and Em-TV. It is overdue that the government take control of these operations immediately. The reason can be found in this article that appeared in the National. The original source of this negative information is Nau FM talkback program. They interviewed Mr Paul Barker to get negative information about the economy to make our Prime Minister look like he is incompetent in financial matters. He would not be the richest man in PNG if he didn’t know how to manage money properly. Our country is in excellent financial hands with Peter O’Neill. Nau FM is using its talkback program to spread negative information about the Prime Minister and his government. Paul Barker is telling lies to make Peter O’Neill look bad and Nau FM is happy to broadcast the lies all over PNG which the newspapers pick up. We know that it will not look good for the government to rid itself of Paul Barker and other negative people.

Government Insider Moreby’s fanciest hotels and even the scattered fancy hotels located in other PNG towns and cities love the new legal corruption that now dominates the PNG government when it comes to workshops.  Chief Secretary Sir Manasupe Zurenuoc finally figured out what honest public servants saw nearly 10 years ago and were practicing without detection.   The harder it gets to steal money, the more motivated dishonest public servants are to find alternative means of experiencing the fancy life, even if only for a few days.  If it now is too hard to steal enough money to bring your girlfriend to the Crowne Plaza for a weekend of loving and high living, you need to find other ways to still experience the fancy life.  Fancy workshops have become a form of legal corruption to achieve this objective. Here’s now this new legal corruption works.    Government workshops used to be held at modest hotels, even guest houses at the provincial level.  Many were held at simple church

The Supreme Court this morning is hearing an urgent application filed by Prime Minister seeking interim injunction orders preventing Police from taking further action against him in relation to the Paraka-gate scandal. The Prime Minister filed the application joining the James Marape's appeal case currently before the Supreme Court. Marape filed an appeal in the Supreme Court in July appealing the decision of the National Court Judge Kariko's ruling back in June refusing to grant a stay on the warrant of arrest against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. Pending the full hearing of the appeal Supreme Court granted interim injunction orders against Police arresting Marape. Prime Minister who is also facing further charges in relation to the Paraka-gate scandal is now seeking the same orders from the Supreme Court. The matter is listed this morning before three man bench of the Supreme Court. *************************** Analysis by BRYAN KRAMMER Prior to the District Cour

PNGBLOGS Contributor Network Head NCD Gestapo Agent and Grandest Chief Powes Parkop has confidentally declared that the Buai Ban will go on, no matter how many human lives may be lost in the process. Clean streets are the overriding goal, Chief Parkop says, and all other concerns take a back seat, Grandest Chief added. Grandest Chief Parkop urged all citizens to speak angrily against anyone who had written against the PNC O’Neill Government over the dead grandmother issue in the social media. He urged friends of the PNC to flood the social media with messages supporting Gestapo policies and the PNC government of Ultimate Chief Peter O’Neill. The Grandest Chief was accompanied yesterday by City hall reservists, police, and a crowd of supporters of the Gestapo government, all of whom said they witnessed what happened and stated with confidence that they were not involved, had nothing to do with it, never saw the killed grandmother, and never seen an elderly grandmother in their

By Andrew Paka We’ve heard it all before, not once, but many times.  A senior public servant or national leader angrily says enough is enough about something people are doing.    There is a brief pause during which the problems stop or at least decrease.  No one is punished.  Everyone becomes confident again, and it becomes business as usual.   That is, until the next time that the senior public servant or national leader says enough is enough. Round and round we go, where we stop everyone knows because we’ll never stop this crazy process that seems to be uniquely PNG.   Never being able to stop wrong doing of any kind at any level for more than briefly.   Always back to Square 1 One would have thought that Chief Secretary to Government Sir Manasupe Zureneuoc was going to be different.  He was presented to the nation as an action man who would change things for the better.  Well here we are more than 2 years into the O’Neill administration and once again we have the same ol

Police have just surrounded the national fraud squad office at Konedobu to arrest the Fraud Squad teams Former members of ARRU fully armed shut down National Fraud & Anti Corruption HQ. These rogue officers got new weapons and ammunition at police armory yesterday. They went and received instructions at Paddies bar yesterday evening/night. Many cars were hired. They got drunk and this morning came to fraud squad and sieged. Many came fully drunk  Many people saw full of policemen (the same ones) at paddies yesterday evening. POST COURIER THE National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate office at police headquarters was under siege yesterday morning, seized by armed men from another unit. The siege lasted four hours as tension soared in Konedobu through uncertainty of what was happening. Multiple vehicles were parked around and on the roads at headquarters, cutting off public access to and from the fraud squad unit as armed policemen walked around the area. The public was too sc

By T Edward Recent news that Telikom will try to purchase EM-TV and NAU FM 100 is disturbing considering other indications that this government is moving towards creating a one party government. It would be a clear advantage to PNC and Peter O’Neill to control television and radio. His strongest opposition is developing in urban areas and television and radio penetrate the urban population better. Controlling print media in PNG is less important to the O’Neill government. The 100% RH owned National newspaper already demonstrates that it touches the Prime Minister lightly when the going gets rough for him. The Post Courier is a shadow of what it was 10 or more years ago and largely incapable of doing anything but reporting news, including slightly editing and printing press releases given to them. Like the National, they show little talent anymore at investigating underlying hidden stories that contain the most earth shattering information. Telikom also would have a hard time co

PNG Blogs Contributor Network Buying loyalty in return for favours seems to be one of the Ten Commandments of the O’Niell Government and his Ministers dutifully follow O’Niell’s law. Treasury Minister Patrick Pruaitch just came back from a wine and women party to the United States, accompanied by minor MPs Gordon Wesley, Wera Mori, Ross Seymour and Salio Waipo. How much did that trip cost us taxpayers, and how does one submit acquittals for prostitute expenses? James Marape and goodness knows who else aren’t far behind in seeing the world. Any day now, Marape and friends will start their round the world sightseeing trip that is being promoted as a road show to raise loan money for the dreamland Hela Province hydro project of LR Group. No worries that they’re going to raise any money! At least we should be relieved that the Marape junket is funded by the LR Group, which is either partners with or naïve to PNG government corruption. Then again, how much money going into the h

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