New Chief Secretary has never answered for $3.7m Finance Department fraud
Our new Chief Secretary, Isaac Lupari, was identified to be at the centre of a K3.7 million fraud by the Finance Department Commission of Inquiry. He was recommended for investigation by the police...
View ArticleGovernment by law breakers, for law breakers
At the bare minimum, when people pay taxes, they expect their governments to at the very least uphold the law. Yet in Papua New Guinea, the government has proven allergic to law enforcement – indeed...
View ArticleBougainville a backward, undeveloped nation, declares President Momis
In a press conference, President Momis has declared Bougainville a backward nation that needs to catch up with the rest of the world [see story below]. He has promised his government will help those...
View ArticleThe Lavish Life of the President and First Lady in Cash Starved Bougainville
While the Autonomous Bougainville Government looks to mining and litigation to fill a significant gap in its accounts, it appears the region’s fiscal woes hasn’t put a break on the spending habits of...
View ArticleThe Great Timber Heist: Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Lost as Foreign...
The Oakland Institute A new report released today, The Great Timber Heist – The Logging in Papua New Guinea [pdf file – 650kb] exposes massive tax evasion and financial misreporting by foreign logging...
View ArticleBougainville’s Vice President and the half-million expense account
On Monday PNG Exposed published 2014 payments made to Bougainville’s President and First Lady, outside of salaries. Over K800,000 had been paid out to the President and his wife, in cash advances,...
View ArticleSomething stinks! Foreign owned companies serving poison on PNG plates
Under Section 3 of the Investment Promotion Regulations 1992 certain business areas are reserved for citizens, including ‘Fast Food Take-away/Kai bars of all descriptions including mobile delivery...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 973 days and counting…
There is still no sign of any action to undo the huge SABL land grab, revoke the unlawful leases or stop the illegal logging. It is 973 days, since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was told that the SABL...
View ArticlePaul Paraka seeks K24 million payments
by STEVEN ANDRE, PNG Blogs The law firm at the centre of fraud allegations involving the Prime Minister and many other high-ranking people in PNG is ‘striking again’. In a letter dated 26th January...
View ArticleIs this Justice? The case of Jimmy Maladina
In May last year the National Court found disgraced lawyer Jimmy Maladina guilty of misappropriating K2.65 million from the National Provident Fund. Jimmy dodged at least one bullet. The Courts were...
View ArticleMore hopeless excuses from the government on SABL
We have been waiting two-and-a-half years for the government to cancel the unlawful SABL leases and stop the illegal logging, but they are still making excuses and doing nothing! Minister for Illegal...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 987 days and counting…
There is still no sign of any action to undo the huge SABL land grab, revoke the unlawful leases or stop the illegal logging. It is 987 days, since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was told that the SABL...
View ArticleForest Minister loves to show off his ignorance
The Forest Minister’s half baked comments do PNG reputation great harm Forest Minister Douglas Tomuriesa has splashed himself all over the media in the last few days trying to refute a report, The...
View ArticleGross mismanagement of Papua New Guinea’s public housing stock continues
Second left, NHEL Director and CEO Kevin Ahipum and senior managers have not submitted financial statements since 2009 or had their books audited It was announced in 2012 that in order to tackle...
View ArticleMalaysian company destroying cocoa blocks and evicting landholders in East...
Papua New Guinea Deputy Prime Minister Leo Dion and Tzen company officials A Malaysian owned group of companies is destroying a large number of smallholder cocoa blocks and forcibly evicting families...
View ArticleO’Neill’s illegal logging: 1001 days and counting…
There is still no sign of any action to undo the huge SABL land grab, revoke the unlawful leases or stop the illegal logging. It is now a massive 1001 days since Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was told...
View ArticleMPs laugh at health cuts
The Transit Medical Storage Facility in Oro is still waiting completion since 2013 despite spending of K600,000 Gary Juffa Today I watched in absolute disgust as MPs giggled and laughed as Minister for...
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