Oh Friday – beautiful Friday, should be thinking good thoughts and giving out good vibes but all I can think of is:

The look of illness. Sometimes you actually feel sicker just from looking at filth and hopelessness.

You walk into Port Moresby General Hospital and the first you notice is how unclean, how unhygienic and dirty everywhere looks. The benches, to the hospital equipment, the floors and let’s not even mention the state of the amenities!

The air I breathe,

The food I eat,

The water I drink,

Hey I’m alive,

Then along you came,

Turned my whole universe inside out – topsy turvy!

The air I breathe – NOT ENOUGH!

Constantly outta breath!

The food I eat – hmmmmm…nah!

Harder to find food now!

via The National online

via Radio Australia News

Potentially billions of dollars of tax is being withheld from the government of East Timor by some of the world's richest oil and gas companies operating in the Timor Sea, Four Corners has revealed.

While our government is allowing Nautilus to hurriedly extract minerals from a depth of 1600m in the Bismark Sea in the year 2013, another group (and a less intrusive one too) is heading to study and collate data on the biodiversity in that same sea at a depth of 1200m! This group even plans to sink artificial coral this year October and head back December 2013 to collect these specimens for further research.  Read the article below to find out more...

via Business World online

When I first began writing here on this page I made a rule to myself to keep out as much of my  personal emotions as possible. You know, to write about the important issues of national concern, issues that all Papua Niugineans could debate and discuss.

 So far, it’s been pretty good. The socio-economic and political issues have been flowing and there hasn't’t been any shortage of material for writing. In the last couple of weeks though, it’s been harder and harder to keep emotions off.

Does this report from Vanuatu in the Vanuatu Dailey Digest sound sickeningly familiar to you?

The weekend is nigh and today is all about the number FIVE!


Five million Kina versus five hundred Kina, or K 5000 000 & K500. They don’t sound so different when you say them. They both have the number five and a couple of zero's attached to the end, BUT one has six zeroes and the other two but who's counting right? WRONG!!!! When you jot down those figures you, really look at them that you realize the difference is ridiculously obvious!

BY PATRICK KAIKU