Letters in brief

Poor performance:
State-owned entities like PNG Power, Post PNG and Telikom, do not always provide a good service because the incentive is not always there to produce the best. Some of them are monopolies and because they are State-owned their survival is not threatened. Even if they lose money and provide a poor service, the government is always there to bail them out. It is also possible that those in the senior management team may have been political appointments and therefore their loyalty is to the appointing power.

Macmillan Sinton Pala,
Ex-postman

Why we fail:
Papua New Guinea has everything but we are still among the most corrupt in the world. Why? May be because of cultural differences. Or do we have an attitude problem? When we look at developed and developing countries, like New Zealand, that have no corruption problem, what is the difference that we see between them and us? These countries value legal counselling, not only in their schools, but in their institutions, departments and organisations. It helps to mold and tune their mind into thinking positively. We don’t do that and as a result we have corruption.

Webster Hasimani, Counsellor
UOG

Hot air:
We live in a world where relentless Saudi bombing of Yemen kill and maim thousands of children, yet the international community looks away. And a Melbourne man goes to court to claim damages for being bombarded by a colleague’s fart (Man ‘bullied’ by farting colleague seeks $1.8 million payout (Yahoo7 News 25/3/19). That’s about about K4.3 million. It is a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack!

Rajend Naidu,
Sydney