Month: November 2021
WITNESS
Children playing in a pool of rainwater along Silkwood Road at Hohola, Port Moresby. The pool was formed due to a clogged storm drain. According to resident Jacob Ben, the […]
Connect PNG worth the money
CONNECTING PNG’s “missing links” will boost the country’s economy. Money spent on stadiums could have been used on something that would have benefited the entire nation in the long term, […]
Wrong move by Hunters coach
Hunters coach Matthew Church was wrong to drop Norman Brown and Brendon Gotuno from the train-on squad over their fitness as reported in The National (Friday, Nov 26 – Back […]
Don’t be ignorant, get vaccinated
I appeal to the Prime Minister, the Health Minister and the National Pandemic Controller to immediately consider: PUTTING in necessary measures and to enforce the immediate ban of visitors travelling […]
Bribery is bribery, there’s no grey area
The give and take, or Nere Tere, politics in Chimbu was not born out of any Christian conviction or moral philosophy. It is one of the many ugly faces of […]
All eyes on fossil fuel
Allow me space to reaffirm my prediction some 12 months ago, through this column, that the hyper inflation worldwide was imminent beyond the normal economic conditions of supply and demand […]
More, higher taxes not the answer
THE Government’s proposed 2022 Budget plan of imposing additional tax levy on banks and telecommunications to raise K285 million annually must be discussed properly as this will effect our ordinary […]
Let SOEs reinvest in themselves
IT is a long-held belief that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are convenient cash cows. Annual dividends generated by these large, usually monopolistic businesses form part of the Government’s consolidated revenue or […]
K205mil for rent ‘not enough’
By DALE LUMA THE K205 million budgeted for rentals of properties in the 2022 National Budget is not enough, says Nambawan Super Ltd (NSL) chief investment officer David Kitchnoge. NSL […]
Budget framed to grow economy
By Dr OSBORNE SANIDA, National Research Institute director A budget is a money plan for expected or planned expenditures, revenues and financing if revenues are not enough to fund the […]