February 2012
12 posts
Unrequited: Our Love Affair With Australia Comes...
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) has sub-contracted an Indian company to run new Australian Visa Application Centres in Port Moresby and the regional city of Lae.
This is after the complaints about;
1. The invasion of privacy forced upon Papua New Guineans wanting to travel to Australia to visit families as well on the sponsors (many of whom are Australian citizens) who...
PNG Sovereign Wealth Fund - Will We Benefit from...
PNG Sovereign Fund … I was watching CBS special ‘Dirty Rich’ about political elite families from various third world countries who live billion dollar lifestyles through various means at the expense of their people. One of the way they can afford these lifestyles is through the control of Sovereign Funds. I wonder what the proposed checks and balances are for the PNG Sovereign...
Hiring My First Employees
Okay. I have two people working with me, for me. Sorry. Correction. I have one working for me/with me and another soon to join me.
This transition from sole operator to team builder/player/manager/owner is difficult, i dont know which to duties to let go.
But I know I must. And I have learnt to trust. I need to grow this thing and stop letting clients down.
Anyway, cheers to the future.
Dont get Up
Dont Get Up.
Dont Travel. Dont Read. Dont Talk. Dont Smile. Dont Dream. Dont Try.
Dont Get Up.
Dont Answer. Dont Call. Dont Shout. Dont Whispher. Dont Sing.
Dont Get Up.
PNG On Sale
Mekere does the media rounds, drums down the value of PNG Ports and Telikom, sacks/replaces CEO’s with his own people, changes boards, so he can ‘privatise’ these multi billion kina people assets for a couple of million to his mates… he is a dinosaur, privatisation as an economic model is a dead theory. His economics are screwed.
If privatisation worked then the Global...
The fall and the sand
Not a single sad word needs to be said
No sound of mourning needs to be heard
No need to cry
Goodbye is Goodbye
Into battle we fall
Unwilling but with heart
Could we have saved you after all
When you were meant to leave us in the dark?
Life goes so fast
All these dreams will never be true
As you fall every minute into our past
In the hour that was your last, could we have saved you?
Angels laid...
When Government Wants to Be Business Partners and...
Is passenger shipping in PNG lucrative?
If you multiply 100 passengers by K100, that means Star Shipping makes over K100,000 per trip on anyone of its 50 year old boats from Rabaul to Lae. If you say 10 trips in a month, it makes a million or more each month.
If the crew and captain can just load passengers and overload the boat at will, they also pocket on the side several thousands per trip....
