NEW DAWN ON BOUGAINVILLE

050101NEW GRAVEL RATES
By New Dawn Media:

LOCALS selling river gravel have reason to celebrate this year as the autonomous government of Bougainville has approved new buying rates for riverine materials especially gravel and limestone.

ABG minister for Works, Transport and Civil Aviation Carrolus Ketsimur at a recent presentation to ABG members announced that this year, river gravel will be bought at three kina per cubic meter.

This is an increase of two kina from last year’s buying rate of one kina per cubic meter.

He also said limestone would now be bought at four kina per cubic meter compared to last year’s buying rate of one kina fifty toea per cubic meter.

Ketsimur said this was good money easily earned from the natural resources owned by the coastal communities of Bougainville and urged that the landowners invest their money well.

He also urged that companies and landowners do fair business to avoid conflict and misunderstanding.

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050101BRADA MERGED
By New Dawn Media:

THE Bougainville Executive Council (BEC) has endorsed the merging of the Bougainville Restoration and Development Authority (BRADA) with the ABG division of Technical Services (TSD).

In its recent meeting, BEC acknowledged that the streamlining of the two agencies responsible for infrastructure development allows the ABG to enhance the capacity of only one entity instead of the two.

ABG minister for finance and treasury Albert Punghau said the decision was necessary to manage and coordinate high impact infrastructure projects irrespective of the funding sources.

He justified that the merging of BRADA into TSD would avoid duplication of roles, confusion, buck-passing and wastage of resources.

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050112TANIS DEPARTS BUKA
By New Dawn Media:

FORMER president of the Autonomous Bougainville Government James Tanis will travel to Canberra, Australia tomorrow to undertake an eighteen-month Master’s course on International Affairs.

Tanis’ study is funded by the Australian Government under its AusAID Development scholarship of which 170 Papua New Guineans including five Bougainvilleans would benefit from this year.

He thanked the government and people of Australia for giving him the opportunity to study.

He added that compared to Bougainville presidents the late Joseph Kabui and John Momis, he had no formal education in international relations but had a vast experience in international affairs.

Tanis said leadership is a profession and urged that to be a leader one must be well versed on the latest level of education and technology.

Tanis assured the people of Bougainville that he would return to add value to the countless efforts of the people and government of the Autonomous Bougainville in rebuilding peace and prosperity.

He also urged the leaders of Bougainville to work hard to achieve a successful outcome on the weapons disposal program.

Tanis warned that Bougainville’s sovereign partners are watching and he urged that for a continued good relations with development partners like Australia and New Zealand, Bougainville leaders must support all local partners in delivering on the weapons disposal program.

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010112new year quite
By Aloysius Laukai

Buka police have reported a trouble-free new year in Buka town.
New Dawn fm visited on duty policemen at the police station and they said thst Buka town was quite despite the small bangings of objects by town residents at 12midnight last night

New Dawn Fm noted that at 12midnight there was heavy downpour which dispersed possible outdoor parties last night.

The downpour was seen by some as showers of blessings for the new year

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010112New Dawn upgrade
By Aloysius Laukai

Workmen ready to work on New Dawn FM upgrading on New Year 2012.
Listeners can get the stereo signals again around Buka island and northen tip of mainland Bougainville.