When she delivered a statement to parliament last Monday, Finance Minister Peggy Serame, made it very clear that she wanted to “address misinformation and/or misleading statements that are circulating in the public domain.” However, two oddities soon emerged.
Firstly, she never once identified such statements or any of the purveyors of the misinformation. Secondly, she didn’t address a contentious and highly explosive detail in a report that the Ministry of Finance will certainly aware of. While it doesn’t mention names, a quarterly publication called Economic Review dismisses a detail that Serame repeated to parliament as misleading.
There's more to this story
But to keep reading, we need you to subscribe.
Investigative journalism is an indispensable part of a healthy society, but it's also expensive to produce. We are reliant on subscriptions to fund our work, and while you can enjoy most of our stories for free, a small number of premium features are reserved for subscribers.
You can subscribe for one week, a month or a full year - the choice is yours.
Save 77% on an annual subscription. Click here to find out how.
Existing subscribers can log in to keep reading here.
