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300120 SELAU ELDER QUESTIONS WHY AFRAID OF THE CHANGES
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A Selau constituency elder, CONRAD PIRITS this afternoon questioned why many leaders are against the changes in the Bougainville Constitution when this very constitution will be totally overhauled to accommodate a new Constitution for the new country that the people of Bougainville have voted for in the November 2019 referendum.
He made these remarks at the consultation between the Parliamentary select Committee on constitutional law and the chiefs and the people of Selau/ Suir.
MR. PIRITS said that if this was the start of the changes why the many objections to the changes.
The Speaker and Chairman explained that with the vote for Independence, there is a need to establish a Bougainville Constitutional Commission to work on the new constitution for the Independent State of Bougainville.

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300120PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEE MAKES FOURTH CONSULTATION TODAY

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The Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Law today met with the people of Selau/Suir at the Hantoa Catholic Parish in Selau.
This is the Day fourth consultation of the agreed 15 days consultations that should be carried out Bougainville wide by this committee.
The meeting started after lunch as the Speaker and Chairman of the Committee had to meet with the Chairman, SIMON PENTANU, the ABG President and the ABG Lawyer.
The meeting at HANTOA was short and straight to the point as the presentations were prepared after yesterday’s consultation by the leaders and were just read and handed to the committee.
The Community Government’s for SUIR and SELAU had the same view that the amendment was okay and they supported these changes to make I legal for the three ex-combatants seat and the President’s seat to be contested in the coming election.
They said that if the timing was okay complete these amendments and allow the voters to choose their candidates in a free and fair election.
Individuals leaders who spoke supported the seat for the former combatants to continue and let the two terms limit for the President to remain.
The committee meets the people of Taonita Teop and Taonita Tinputz at the Tinputz station tomorrow Friday.

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300120 WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS
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The Bougainville Disaster Office and the PNG weather office has issued weather forecast for all Bougainville waters for the next 24 hours.
This is for the waters of New Ireland and Bougainville.
There will be Westerly winds at 10 to 20 knots with seas rising between 0.5 to 1.5 meters and isolated showers and thunderstorms in some areas during the next 24 hours.
Although the wind is not strong all travellers are asked to take extra precautions when planning to travel out to sea during this time.
If there are any new changes in the weather we will further advice the people.

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290120KUNGKEI CALLS ON HEROMATE TO SPELL OUT WHAT HE DID AS A SENIOR PUBLIC SERVANT

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Bougainville’s civil rights activists, JUSTIN KUNGKEI today called on the former ABG senior Public servant to spell out what he did in his time instead of complaining about the ABG service delivery system today.
Mr Kungkei told New Dawn FM that it is good to hear MR. HEROMATE complain on the ABG which he was part of.
He said he can remember well that in his term he operated trade stores and other money making activities whilst under government payroll.
MR. KUNGKEI said that the Government then had a lot of monies for restoration of services to Bougainville and he cannot compare to today with his good times.
Our attempts to get comments from Patrick Heromate were unsuccessful.

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280120 AIM GLOBAL AGENT CALLS FOR KUNUA ROAD TO BE FIXED
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A chief from the West Coast, SAMUEL TORORIA is calling on the Autonomous Bougainville government to try and fix the deteriorating SIARA to KOREPOVI road.
In a press statement released today, MR. TORORIA said these road has been neglected for so long with the promised bridges not delivered.
MR. TORORIA said that the people are resourceful with many cocoa and coconut blocks in the area but due to the road network his people continue to suffer.
He said his people need roads to bring their produce to the markets in Buka and Arawa.
MR. TORORIA said that his people of the West coast that include Kunua/Kereaka and Torokina will remain backward unless a road network reaches them.

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290120JUSTIN KUNGKEI WANTS SMLOLA TO APOLOGIZE
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A Bougainville civil rights activist, JUSTIN KUNGKEI is calling on the administrator of the SMLOLA Facebook page to remove the post that said that President MOMIS suffered stroke yesterday.
MR. KUNGKEI said making false reports on fb is not only illegal but degrading of Smlola which is are recognized Panguna landowner group.
He said such false statements are not good and called on the administrator to apologize to the President and the people of Bougainville.
MR. KUNGKEI who was with the President today said such false statements must not be posted.
Meanwhile, New Dawn FM also went and saw that the President was in good health nothing of such that was reported by Smlola happened.

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290120PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW MEETS ISLANDERS

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The Parliamentary Committee select on constitutional Law today met with the people of MAHARI and Teua on Saposa island on their 3rd day of consultations with the people of Bougainville on the proposed amendments of the Bougainville Constitution on the seats of the Ex-combatants and the seat of the President.
Under the constitution the seat of the Ex combatants will end after this 3rd ABG Parliament ends at the return of writs this year.
And the amendment on the seat of the President is to change the restrictions on the seat which is only two terms to make it three terms.
The Committee will meet with the people of Selau tomorrow at Hantoa Parish.
Meanwhile, unlike what has happened in HAKU, HALIA and HAGOGOHE where they requested for time for consultations with the people, the newly appointed Minister for Economic Development and member for SELAU today met with the leaders of Selau to prepare their stand towards these amendments.
The people of Selau will present their written submission to the Committee in Hantoa tomorrow.

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280120MEMBER CALLS TO MEET HIS PEOPLE
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The ABG minister for Economic Development and member for Selau, JOSEPH WATAWI his calling on the Chiefs of Selau, Chairman of Selau Community Government and the Chairman of the Kokopau Urban Community Government, church leaders in Selau and women leaders to attend a urgent meeting tomorrow at TEN AM at the Selau District Office.
The meeting is to gauge the views from the community leaders on the proposed two constitutional amendments that the ABG has introduced on the 17th of January, 2020.
The Minister said that he wants to meet and get views from the leaders on the proposed amendments.
He said that it was a requirement for the Government to consult with the leaders before the parliament makes these changes in Parliament.
Meanwhile the Parliamentary select committee will visit its third location since it started consulting with the Community leaders since the Committee started its work last Monday.

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280120NEW DAWN FM OFF IN BUIN
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New Dawn FM would like to advice its listeners in Buin and South Bougainville that our station has been off for a week due to the Buin Power giving low voltage and unable to operate our equipment there.
We operate filtering equipment through an AUTOMATIC POWER REGULATOR that tries to stabilize the power voltage fluctuations but this low output has burnt out the AVR.
Once that is replaced our station in that part of the region will remain off air for another week.
New Dawn FM wishes to apologize to its listeners for this problem.
We are trying our best to have this equipment replaced as soon as possible.
Our signals in Arawa and Buka are not affected.

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280120COMMITTEE MEET THE PEOPLE OF TSITALATO TONSU AND PEIT
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The Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Law today met the people of TONSU, PEIT and TSITALATO at the Malasang Women’s centre.
This was the second of the fifteen days consultative meetings that the committee has to carry out throughout the region before it returns to the parliament for the second reading of the bills to amend the Constitution on the seat of the Bougainville former combatants and the seat of the President.
The leaders from the three constituencies were direct with their answers and did not ask to go back to the wards for further consultations similar to what happened at HALIA yesterday.
In today’s consultations the leaders of Tonsu supported the amendments saying that these amendments were good so that it gives power back to the voters to vote for their candidate.
The leaders from Peit and Tsitalato only supported the seats of the Ex combatants to continue saying their duty as combatants remains until after the ratification.
On the seat of the President, the leaders said that the two terms was enough and there was no need for the change.
The Committee will meet with the people of TEUA and MAHARI on Saposa island tomorrow.

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