President calls for more govt information

By Thomas Kathoa

The President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government, Hon James Tanis, has called on the communications division to provide more information about Government activities to the public.

Mr Tanis made the call during a briefing with former Communications Minister, Hon Robert Hamal Sawa and his staff.

Mr Sawa is now Minister for Peace, Reconciliation and Weapons Disposal, but the President has asked him to remain in his old portfolio for a little while yet.

Mr Tanis said the division seems to be concentrating only in setting up communication facilities and forgetting about disseminating government information to the public.

He said the division of communications should strive to improve the dissemination of information to the masses. People must be told what the government is doing.

He said major government decisions, like tax collection by village assemblies, should be communicated to the people.

Comments

[Peter Siperu]

I wish it could have been alot better than it used to be before when the mine
was operating.I look forward to progress and not regress

Thank You

[Axel G. Sturm - President of European Shareholders of Bougainville Copper (ESBC)]

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[Axel G. Sturm - President of European Shareholders of Bougainville Copper (ESBC)]

I completely agree with the President: Within the first three months of Mr. Tanis' government there were a lot of articles published in the press. But since two months the news from Bougainville are more or less rather poor. If there were no news from Radio New Dawn, there were even less information. I suppose that the President is still working hard every day to bring Bougainville forward, but his intensive work is nearly not mentioned in the public. That is very sad. The members of the ESBC and I are looking forward that the ABG improves its information work because we would appreciate to read more news on the positive progress on the ground in Bougainville.