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by Dr Anthony Deklin PRIME MINISTER O'NEILL SHOULD STOP THIS RIDICULOUS INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL GRANDSTANDING AND REDIRECT THE LIMITED PUBLIC MONEY PNG HAS TOWARDS ALLEVIATING POVERTY AND RAISE THE LIVING STANDARD OF THE MAJORITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEANS LIVING IN THE VILLAGE. When I saw in yesterday's Edition of the Post Courier (Monday 24 October 2016) a report that PNG will be hiring three cruise liners and parking them at the Fairfax Harbour in Port Moresby to accommodate the APEC guests in November 2018, I had to come out and express this feeling, which had been building up in me for some time. My question to the Prime Minister is this: Why go out and make a fool of not so much yourself as of your country in the eyes of the world by inviting world political leaders and their entourage of more than 6,000 people to come to a world event when you know very well that you don't have the hotel accommodation capacity to host them? This simply does not make sense. It is

by PAUL GENIA In the first quarterly NSO Reform Steering Committee meeting held in April 2015, Mr Koloma was instructed to table the expenditure report which he never did. However, in the last meeting on the 25th August 2015, he lightly briefed the members that it was expanded on the salaries and wages of the NSO Policy and Coordination Division's staff of around K1.3 million and NSO's Goods and Services of K1.7 million Facts at NSO that may relate to abuse of NSO Reform Funds. NSO's Policy & Coordination Division staffs are fulltime employees with employment file number paid through the normal government salary system by the DPM since 2012. It is 100% not from NSO reform funds. NSO utilities such as telephone, email, fax have been out since 2013. Why is NSO engaging alot local consultants some of which are computer illiterate. ? There is a super consultant, a failed Director for 2011 Census. This particular consultant has no apparent use at all. He has been e

by  NEMO YALO Introduction This article replies to the Ombudsman Commission’s paid public notice (The National, 10.10.16, page16) which responded to my article in the same paper (06.10.16, page 37). In my article I answered the question ‘is an Ombudsman conferred arbitrary powers by law to stop investigations into alleged or suspected misconduct in office under the Leadership Code’? The article was prompted by an allegation that an Ombudsman had made a decision unilaterally stopping all leadership investigations under the Leadership Code pending the appointment of the Chief Ombudsman. The Commission has stated in bold in the second paragraph of its article: “The matters alluded to by Mr Yalo are internal discussions awaiting formal internal legal advice and not ‘matters of public interests’ nor is it meant for public discussions”. This article informs the public that I stand by my statement. The Commission’s denial The Commission denied the allegation I raised a

by JASON P KANGOMA Treasurer Patrick Pruaitch is scheduled to hand down the 2017 Budget in Parliament this week. Given that 2017 is election year, the Budget is certain to be dominated by the usual O’Neill Regime spin and deceit, along with wasteful and irresponsible spending measures. But the central feature will be drastic cuts to essential social services such as health and education, and further suffering for ordinary Papua New Guineans. Every successive O’Neill Budget has been a failure, creating more problems than they solve, and driving the nation further towards total collapse. This special PNG Blogs report reveals the ongoing damage Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s corruption, greed and mismanagement is doing to Papua New Guinea.   POVERTY INCREASING UNDER O’NEILL REGIME The new announcement by the O’Neill Regime that it has obtained a K1 billion rescue package from the Asian Development Bank proves that Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s economic and finan

by NSO INSIDER National Statistician Roko Koloma has been engaging a company called Data Fix. This company is brought in by Koloma for - Aircon Maintenance - NSO office partitioning - Providing hire vehicles - Providing printing services.  When asked by his close associates of the company's dominance in NSO, he vigorously maintains that he is following orders from the Minister Charles Abel's office to engage the company. Datafix has grown at NSO since Koloma took office. It is engaged with PNG NID project, NSO recurrent and now the Domestic Health Survey. The Deputy national statistician Henao Kari's company has been engaged to replace a door for K80,000.00. Imagine a door costing K80,000.000.  The Accounts Manager Lohia Micheal is providing the catering services to the DHS project. He has his vehicle engaged in NSO for hire. All these dubious deal are happening before the employees of NSO. They talk about it but the buck stops with Minister Charles A

Congratulations, Mr Polye, on winning the re-count for Kandep district!  We realise sinister political forces were at work to bring about the re-count.  Thankfully you won. PNG needs your leadership now like never before.  As you know we are currently saddled with a limping-along economy that is likely due to corrupt government.  The eyes of all Papua New Guineans are on you to take the lead in challenging the O’Neill administration.       One year ago in the October 8, 2015 edition of the Post Courier you were spot on in your claim that the PNG LNG funds were being parked in an account in Singapore, and not in the Bank of PNG as claimed by the O’Neill administration.  Thank you for bringing that to the light of day. You can’t rest now.  You need to continue to hammer away and demand transparency of  government finances.  In particular you need to focus on the UBS loan, now rolled into a Credit Suisse loan.  Secondly you need to demand full disclosure of the PNG LNG income.