PNG’s 2017 Revenue Forecasts – A Detailed Analysis
by PAUL FLANAGANPNG’s revenue collapse is likely to continue with estimated additional shortfalls of K1.5 billion for both 2016 and 2017. This will add to the budget deficit, debt levels and financing...
View ArticleCHRISTMAS IS COMING TO MORESBY. A SICK FRAUD PERPETRATED BY MORESBY LEADERS
by Ephraim Curtis Different people have different perspectives. I have watched as some of my friends have applauded the new highrise apartments popping up in Moresby even though the rents they charge...
View ArticleSLIPPERY SLOPE, PNG EFFECTIVELY PRINTING MONEY TO FUND DEFICIT BUDGET -...
by PAUL FLANAGANIn an article for the ANU’s Development Policy Centre eighteen months ago (see here), I congratulated PNG’s central bank (BPNG) for its very constructive stance in stopping its...
View ArticleOSEAH PHILEMON CHAMPIONED FREEDOM OF PRESS AGAINST TWO PRIME MINISTERS
Kevin Rozzoli & Quinton Clements with Mr Oseah Philemon, then President of the PNG Media Council.byAn Old Friend and AdmirerLate Oseah Philemon always tried his best to do what was right for the...
View ArticleWHERE IS THE OFFICIAL REPORT ON WHAT HAPPENED AT UNITECH DURING JUNE 2016?
Supposedly the Lae police were investigating. This is a matter of high public interest. A true PNG patriot has sent us their account of what happened at Unitech. We are publishing it because all...
View ArticleMINISTER STEALS PUBLIC PARK LAND FOR FAMILY BUSINESS
DORA LU'S FORMER MISTRESS, MINING & PETROLEUM MINISTER NIXON DUBAN, IS GIVING AWAY MADANG TOWN LAND AND WHO MIGHT BE MAKING MONEY ON THE SIDE? (from PNG Exposed): In a blatant abuse of position,...
View ArticleGAY RIGHTS GET A MIGHTY BOOST IN PNG WITH JUSTIN TKATCHENKO'S 'DECLINE TO...
by JAMES PERA KINAP THE STATEMENT THAT HE IS A "FAMOUS HOMOSEXUAL MP".When the PNG Blogs posting came out on 19th December seemingly connecting Tkatchenko with a Malaysian woman who had overstayed her...
View ArticleHAPPY NEW YEAR
This will be a challenging year for Papua New Guinea and PNG Blogs as whole, we have crossed the Rubicon into the new year, 2017. Our challenges remain, our issues remain unsettled, government...
View ArticlePNG TOO SHY TO REVEAL REAL STATE OF ECONOMY TO IMF
by PAUL FLANAGANPNG’s government must be embarrassed by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) assessment of its economic performance. In an extraordinary step, and the first time in PNG’s 41 year...
View ArticleGOVERNMENT’S CREDIBILITY WITH INVESTORS AT ROCK BOTTOM: INEPT FINANCIAL...
byWILSON TALAG“For a small country whose economy is heavily dependent on volatile commodity prices to borrow heavily hoping that commodity prices will remain high is the pinnacle of stupidity.”Smart...
View ArticleFRIGHTENING GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE IN 8 KEY AREAS OF THE ECONOMY
NATIONAL BUDGET SPOOKS PRIVATE BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT IN PNG byWILSON TALAG Economist Paul Flanagan's recent remarks that appeared in PNG Blogs and elsewhere highlight 8 key areas of what looks to be...
View ArticlePNG HAS TWO SETS OF ECONOMY ONE FOR THE RICH REST FOR THE POOR
by MAJOR GENERAL JERRY SINGIROK MBE (rtd) As a graduate Security Analyst I can forecast and make a critical analysis of where PNG is heading to under the current status quo .By default , association...
View ArticleHOW PNG TURNED INTO A DICTATORSHIP IN 4 SHORT YEARS
by NIUGINI OUTLOOKTHE MOST SOPHISTICATED LEADERS INTENT ON GRABBING ABSOLUTE POWER IN A COUNTRY AREN'T SO STUPID AS TO TRY IT IN ONE STEP OR A SUDDEN COUPE. That strategy is very risky and it only...
View ArticleJAMES MARAPE'S MENTOR IS PETER O'NEILL WHEN IT COMES TO HALF TRUTHS
NIUGINI OUTLOOK UPNG especially was screaming in December that they had no money left to run the university. It was well known that months ago the PNG government had promised a sizeable amount of money...
View ArticleJOHN "BOTTOM FEEDER" PUNDARI HAS EMERGED FROM THE SEWERS OF WAIGANI
NIUGINI OUTLOOK JOHN PUNDARI HAS FINALLY EMERGED FROM THE STINKING SWAMP OF CORRUPTION FOR ALL TO SEE AND WHAT A MIGHTY PRESENCE HE HAS CREATED IN THOSE STINKING WATERS! No, the taxi service that...
View ArticleWHY I CHOSE TO RUN FOR MADANG REGIONAL SEAT
by MAJOR GENERAL JERRY SINGIROK (rtd)Our nation is in a serious crisis. Both leadership and financial. It is the most challenging time confronting PNG due to technological advancement through mass...
View ArticleMINISTER & CHINESE WOMAN EXPOSED IN ILLEGAL LAND GRAB
byBRYAN KRAMER On 22nd December 2016 social media exposed an illegal land grab over two parcels of prime public land in Madang involving Minister of Petroleum & Energy and Member of Madang Open...
View ArticleTHE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN PNG -
by POROLO PERIAPRu Lu aka Dora Lu graduated from university in Shanghai in English Literature. She went to work for a Chinese State cultural agency as a researcher in Taiwan Affairs. At the age of 23,...
View ArticleDEFENCE LAND DEAL LANDS CORRUPT DUMA K61.5 MILLION TO GO INTO 2017 ELECTIONS
by JOHNSON OMBUNPAI In 2012 the O'Neil - Dion Government passed a NEC resolution asking the Department of Defense to relocate Murray Barracks.In 2014 both URP Leader and Mt Hagen MP William Duma and...
View ArticleDIANNE WAKETSI AND POST COURIER'S OBSESSION WITH PORN
NIUGINI OUTLOOKTHE WORST THING TO DO AFTER YOU’VE MADE A MISTAKE IS TO LIE AND TRY TO COVER IT UP: ENTER POST COURIER “JOURNALIST” DIANNE WAKETSI!“Journalist” Dianne Waketsi has had a few jobs since...
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