NEW DAWN ON BOUGAINVILLE

Drunkard lady out of control

Drunkard off road
By Aloysius Laukai

A small white ute droven by a drunken woman driver and full of druken malecounterparts with cans in their hands missed the New dawn Fm main steel gates at 0730hrs this morning.

The car was on full throtle when it failed to negotiate the raised road near New Dawn FM office on Buka island.

The car then got stuck in the mud and stopped completly.

Noone was hurt in what could have been a nasty road accident.

Police were called in but the car had already left the scene of the incident.

Kunua police recieve vehicle

240112 Kunua Police
By Aloysius Laukai

Kunua Police today officially recieved their new police car from the ABG member for Tewa constituency and Minister for LLG and communications, JOE NOPE at the Kunua district office.

The car was paid for by the member for North Bougainville,Lauta Atoi recently.

PPC Chief inspector Cletus Tsien in his official remarks thanked the member for donating the vehicle to the district.

And he called on the police officers to look after the vehicle in the cause of their duty.

He said this was the first time for the police from kunua to have a vehicle.

BUKA ROAD UPGRADE

Buka town street roads are currently being upgraded.
These streets have been neglected for so many years however drainage system for these roads must also be included in these upgrades for the roads to last.
Pictured are workmen upgrading the stretch of road between BMF and Mark Murava building on the back street.

170112KUNUA POLICE GET VEHICLE
By New Dawn Media
WORK on maintaining law and order at Kunua in North Bougainville has been made easier with the presentation of a vehicle by Member for North Bougainville Lauta Atoi.
In officially handing the key to the vehicle to ABG minister for Local Level Government, Traditional Authorities and Communications Joseph Nopei today, Atoi said he was pleased to be doing what little he can to boost the work of the Bougainville Police Service.
He said in order for any development to take place and for an efficient delivery of goods and services to the people, law and order must be upheld.
He added that having a vehicle would increase police mobility and flexibility into areas once inaccessible to rural based police personnel.
Atoi called on the politicians, business and community stakeholders to work together in supporting the work of the police in Bougainville.
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110112ABG departmentalization program progresses

By New Dawn Media:

PREPARATION is underway to implement phase one of the ABG process to departmentalize its administrative divisions this year.

ABG Finance and Treasury Albert Punghau says two million has been appropriated to fund phase one this year.

Phase one starts with the advertisement of fifteen senior executive positions in the new departmentalization structure.

Following the completion of phase one, phase two would be to draw up departmental structures and advertise priority departments and senior positions.

Chief Executive Officer of ABG Human Resource division Shem Satoriri said the departmentalizing of the Bougainville Administration into fourteen departments will form the basis to establish the foundation of the Bougainville Public Service.

Satoriri said the main reason for this is to align the administrative structure with Bougainville’s unique political arrangements under autonomy.

He added that the reason also is to enhance effective collaboration between ABG departments and the national government departments on the draw down of powers from the state to ABG.

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100112Ketsimur calls on Japan assistance

By New Dawn Media:

ABG minister for Works, Transport and Civil Aviation Carolus Ketsimur is appealing to the government and people of Japan to further their assistance to Bougainville.

In thanking them for assisting to build fifteen bridges throughout the North and Central Bougainville, Ketsimur asked that Japan continue with a program to build bridges across all the rivers along Bougainville’s main trunk roads from North to South Bougainville.

Ketsimur said in the past the Japanese came to Bougainville in war that resulted in a lot of damage and destruction and loss of life.

He added that by providing K90 million to build the fifteen bridges, the government and people of Japan had proven their spirit of goodwill and cooperation.

He said Japan had contributed immensely to the autonomous region’s reconstruction and national development.

Ketsimur also thanked workers from Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia who were contracted under Japanese company Kitano construction limited to build the fifteen bridges.

These bridges will be officially launched next month.

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100112Landowners thanked

By New Dawn Media:

WAKUNAI landowners at Central Bougainville have been thanked for allowing work to commence on the Iraka bridge which was officially opened on December 30 last year.

Speaking at the official ceremony ABG Minister for works, transport and civil aviation Carolus Ketsimur said the landowners agreed for a bridge to be built over Iraka river for the benefit of the people of Bougainville.

Ketsimur said the Wakunai landowners were able to put their differences aside and make sacrifices to allow work to commence without obstruction.

He also congratulated the landowners in the other fourteen project sites of which bridges are being built under a K90 million fund by the government and people of Japan for the people of Bougainville.

The total of fifteen bridges built by contractor company Kitano Construction Limited will be officially handed over to the ABG by the government of Japan next month.

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100112Chief System review

By New Dawn Media:

ABG minister for Local Level Government (LLG), Traditional Authorities and Communication Joseph Nopei says the Autonomous Bougainville Government supports the village chief system.

He said this is evident in their decision to empower traditional leadership structure below the Council of Elders (COE) and village assembly level.

He said the ABG will empower the chiefs so that they will effectively deal with issues at the village level.

He said as the Autonomous Region of Bougainville moves towards autonomy and referendum in 2015, the ABG would like to ensure that the lower level of government are fully functional and operating effectively before 2015.

Nopei added that this was going to be very challenging but assured that work would start this year in conjunction with the review of the COE system.

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100112COE Review

By New Dawn Media:

BOUGAINVILLE Executive Council has approved a document that recommends strategic changes needed made to the current structure of the Council of Elders (COE).

The document called a “White paper on COE review” highlights issues on law, constitution, administrative and operational difficulties faced by the COEs since their establishment in 1996.

Some key recommendations were made based on feasibility study of the existing structure of the COEs conducted last year.

ABG Minister for Local Level Government (LLG), Traditional Authorities and Communication Joseph Nopei said he was excited about the changes that would happen at the COE level.

He said the changes would improve operations of the COEs and make the COEs work effectively to serve the people of Bougainville.

Nopei appealed to the people, the chairman and the members of the COEs to support the changes that would happen.

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050101K200,000 cash lost at Iurun
By New Dawn Media:

AN increasing number of treasure hunters from all over Bougainville are camping along the Iurun river at Tinputz district, in the hope of finding a black sports bag that is believed to contain more than two hundred thousand kina in cash.

Reports received from Tinputz say the black bag was lost at the river last week when its owner, a copra buyer based at Arawa, was swept out of the passenger vehicle he was travelling in, on his way to Buka.

The East Coast transport he was in along with ten other passengers, was caught in strong tide and dragged about five meters downstream when the Iurun river flooded after a night of heavy rains last week.

No casualties was reported and passengers were able to retrieve most of their cargos except for the bag containing the cash which has not yet been found.

A ten thousand kina reward is being offered to the person who finds and safely return the cash to the owner.

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