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211022 BOUGAINVILLE PARLIAMENT PASSES SUPPLEMENTARY BILL 2022
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The Bougainville House of Representatives this afternoon passed the Supplementary Appropriation BILL 2022 which was presented to the house yesterday by the ABG Minister for Finance and Treasury and member for North Nasioi, HON MATHIAS SALAS.
The supplementary bill was introduced to re-appropriate funds available to the ABG after the National Government through its supplementary budget cut the ONE HUNDRED MILLION development grant to the ABG by half to only FIFTY MILLION KINA.
The bill approved is for the remaining months to the close of Business in December with another budget for 2023.
The total amount although most were already used on budgeted programs totaled to FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED KINA.
The ABG Supplementary budget was finally approved and passed by the Bougainville House of Representatives after lengthy debate which was carried live on Radio Bougainville and New Dawn FM.

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251021PRESIDENT MAKES MINISTERIAL RESHUFFLE AFTER ONE YEAR
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The ABG President, Honorable ISHMAEL TOROAMA has thanked members affected by the first Ministerial reshuffle for accepting these changes.
Speaking at the swearing in ceremony of three Ministers in Buka, PRESIDENT TOROAMA said he was happy to make changes where he wants to see progress as Bougainville is moving towards independence.
He said it has been very challenging for him in the first year of his government.
The three Ministers are, new minister for Public Service and member for LULE constituency in Buin, Honorable JOSEPH MONA, the Minister for Health and former Police Minister, Honorable THOMAS TARII and the former Minister for Public Service and member for BABA, EMMANUEL CARLOS KAETAVARA who is the new Minister for Police.
They were sworn in by the Bougainville’s SENIOR PROVINCIAL MAGISTRATE, MR.BRUCE TASIKUL.
The President said that he had to make some changes in the best interest of the people so that they can be able to enjoy some benefits whilst we continue to maintain stability of this government despite the many challenges that we continue to face daily.
He acknowledged the contribution of the outgoing Police Minister and the short time that the outgoing Public Service Minister performed as an indication that all Departments and their Ministers working together can achieve a lot for Bougainville.

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290721 SEARCH FOR MISSING BOAT WITH SIX PASSENGERS SCALED DOWN
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The search for the missing boat with six Passengers including a ABG Minister has been scaled down after the search which involved Boats, Ships, Planes and a Helicopter failed to sight the boat no any debris from the missing Boat.
The Boat with seven Passengers left for Nissan from Buka on 17th July and failed to arrive at their destination resulting in the activation of the search program.
The search was scaled down this week Tuesday 27th July 2021 but the Disaster team will still be on alert for any sightings.
ABG President, Hon ISHMAEL TOROAMA told a press conference in Buka that it was with great sorrow that the search was scaled down because of a number of reasons.
That fie search and rescue response have gone past the emergency search and rescue timeframe of 48 to 72 hours. The search and rescue operation has been going for more than 72 hours.
Recovery and rehabilitation phase comes in after 72 hours to 7 days.
However. The team will be on alert to recommission search party should there be sightings of missing persons in water or properties that could be from the mishap boat.
The emergency search and rescue commission into the mishap at sea about 200 to 300 meters from Nissan Island are as follows:
1. Only one survivor swam to safety at Pinipel Island between 9 and IOpm on Sunday 18• July. The survivor was transported to Nissan District Health Centre and was later brought to Buka General Hospital on the Manalos helicopter on Tuesday 20th July at 4pm.
2. There was no other passenger found from the missing boat and
3. Only one bag was identified and confirmed by relatives as belonging to the missing boat.
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060721 PRESIDENT TOROAMA SAYS BOUGAINVILLE CAN COMPROMISE TO 2027 ONLY.
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The ABG President, Honorable ISHMAEL TOROAMA has told the Opening ceremony of the JOINT SUPERVISORY BODY meeting in WABAG this afternoon that the ABG can compromise up to 2027 only.
He said that in the Kokopo consultations, you equated the referendum results to Mt Wilhelm which is the highest mountain in PNG. The Bougainville team proposed 2025 at the Kokopo consultations.
I am aware that your Technical Team has subsequently suggested a timeline to the ABG of “no earlier then 2025 and no later then 2030”. We propose a compromise date of “no later then 2027”.
The date 2027, is in line with your statement in Kokopo. If this compromise proposal is rejected, Bougainville will revert back to 2025 as stated in Kokopo.
I request that the two of us take leadership control of this agenda and give clear instructions to the technocrats.
MR TOROAMA also told the Prime Minister, the reluctance in using the word “Independence” by the PNG side.
He said that this was a denial of historical facts that have taken place over the last 32 years.
He stressed that the Bougainville war was for independence with 20,000 lives lost, the Independence word is in the Bougainville Peace Agreement, the independence word is in the amendments made to the PNG constitution, the independence word was made available in the Referendum options, the independence word was jointly defined as Sovereignty and the independence word became the majority result. It is against the spirit of the Bougainville Peace Agreement and the amendments in the PNG constitution to now bury the independence word at this late hour of our journey.
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040321CALL FOR INQUIRY INTO THE 2020 ABG RESPONSE ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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The steeply increasing number of COVID-19 positive cases in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville is more life threatening than the gone Bougainville armed conflict says the former acting secretary for the Department of Peace Agreement Implementation and Freelance Peace Builder, DENNIS KUIAI.
In a press statement released today, MR, KUIAI says that the publicity of those tested and confirmed positive is more merciless than the virus.
And the silence of the Government is more frightening than the pandemic itself.

He said that the Publicity coupled by awareness will not stop the spread of the virus nor will it heal those infected. The people of Bougainville are left to struggle for own survival using their best natural instincts.

MR. KUIAI says Bougainville still has the paramount task of ensuring people’s expected outcome from the PNG/ABG Intergovernmental Consultation.
It is essentially vital that Members of our Bougainville Consultation Team as well as the people of Bougainville must be protected by our Government both through preventive and curative health from the pandemic.

He says,We need healthy leadership and people to build a healthy Independent Nation of Bougainville.
In 2020, with the declaration of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Autonomous Bougainville Government declared a State of Emergency (SOE) in March that lapsed in December 2020.
He questioned, Since then, what infrastructures and policies had been put in place?
Was the appropriated funding of more than Ten Million Kina (K10m) utilised to prepare Bougainville to respond to an outbreak?
The former Acting Secretary said that for the good of our people and our future, it is only appropriate for the President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government to call for an Inquiry into the COVID-19 State of Emergency (SOE) Management and Operations so that the people of Bougainville can be well informed of the Governments’ response strategy as for their benefit.
COVID-19 Pandemic is a health concern that involves every individual person and even the simple ordinary people in the rural villages. Therefore, Government response must be inclusive of every stakeholders, the Churches, the Civil Society Organizations, Women, Youth, and Persons with Disability as well as Media.
A Result-Based whole-of-Government Approach is needed to respond to this health pandemic.
Our Government must respond now rather than later, let us not fail our people by excuses of resources constraints as we had not prepared when we had the money in 2020.

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040221 ARAWA TOWN CLEANUP FOR PRIME MINISTER VISIT
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Residents of Arawa town have been cleaning front of their residences and the streets of Arawa in preparation of the Prime Minister’s visit to the region ths Friday for the first Joint Supervisory Body Meeting between the ABG President Hon ISHMAEL TOROAMA and the Prime Minister of PNG the right Honourable JAMES MARAPE.
The meeting will be held in the former capital of Bougainville Arawa tomorrow Friday 5th of February, 2021.
The clean-up started on Monday despite the heavy downpour that has hit many parts of the world with rising sea levels and cyclones.
According to the Minister for Finance and member for North Nasioi which covers Arawa town, funding was released for the clean-up to make the place clean.
He called on the people to maintain clean environment even after the JSB has been concluded.
New Dawn FM managed to check the work been carried out in Arawa town.

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110121 SUAMARU APPEAL TO PEOPLE NOT TO STOP ROAD WORK
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The ABG Minister for Technical Services and member for Kopi, DR. JOSEPH KIM SUAMARU this afternoon appealed to the people of Central and South Bougainville especially on the South Eastern Trunk road from Aropa to Buin not to disturb the upgrading and sealing of the main highway being carried out by Dekenai.
He said that people who have issues with payments of food trees and coconut on the highway should talk to the Public Relations officers and not stop equipment that are engaged on this project.
DR. SUAMARU said this road once upgraded will help the communities in the area and also by having good road their standard of living will be raised.
The Minister made these appeal after learning that some land owners have stopped the work by planting the Traditional TANGET by aggrieved landowners.

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111220LAW AND JUSTICE OPENS OFFICE
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The law and justice sector on Bougainville achieved a milestone today when it opened its new offices in Arawa, Central Bougainville today.
The opening of the new offices was made possible by the government of President Ishmael Toroama who are responsible for making the final payment that allowed the offices to be opened.
The office complex has been funded by the Autonomous Bougainville Government and provides office space for three key law and justice agencies;
1. Department of Justice and Attorney General – Community Based Corrections
2. Office of the Public Solicitor
3. ABG Department of Justice and Legal Services.
Prior to the opening of the Arawa Law and Justice Office, none of these three important agencies had a permanent presence in Arawa.
Neither Community-Based Correction or the Department of Justice and Legal Services had staff present and, although the Public Solicitor did have a lawyer here, he had no office to work from.
The opening of this office by ABG allows these three agencies to expand their operations permanently, increasing access to crucial law and justice services for the people of Central and South Bougainville.
All of the main national law and justice agencies are now operating in Bougainville. This includes Police, Correctional Services, National Court, District Court, Public Prosecutor, Public Solicitor, Community-Based Corrections and Ombudsman Commission.
The opening of the office complex was stalled for five years after its completion in 2015 due to funding constraints in the ABG under the Special Intervention Fund.
The total costing for the office complex is K597, 000.00 with an initial payment of K400, 000.00 that was made by the previous government.
After the election of President Toroama in September, he made a commitment for funding to be made available for the completion of the building.
President Toroama ensured the final payment of K197, 000 was immediately made available for to the ABG’s Law and Justice Sector to allow the building to be opened.
President Toroama has stressed on improving law and order in Bougainville as a key aspect of his presidency.
Present at the opening was Public Solicitor of Papua New Guinea Mr Lesley Mamu, Australian High Commission, Minister Counsellor Dr Michael McKenzie, ABG Law and Justice Secretary Kearneth Nanei, Commander of the Bougainville Police Service, Francis Tokura and Provincial Magistrate Bruce Tasikul.
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101220ABG NEEDS PEOPLE’s SUPPORT SAYS WILOLOPA.
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Minister for Public Service and member for Lato Constituency Melvin Wilolopa has called on the people of Bougainville to support ABG pursue its dream of independence.
The Minister made this call at the launching of the Integrated Land Groups, Voluntary Land Registration and Social Mapping for the Bana Special Economic Zone.
The President for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville Ismael Toroama launched this initiative yesterday at Mamarego Primary School in Bana District.
Minister Willilopa says this launch is significant as it will pave way for the government in terms of its development plans.
He calls on the land owners, stakeholders and community leaders to support the government’s economic initiatives it is taking to bring developments into the region.
Minister Wililopa congratulates and thanked the people of Bana for welcoming and supporting this initiative in their district.
He says in order for the government to pursue Bougainville’s dream of independence and making the dream become a reality, people must support the government.
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101220TOROAMA VOWS TO SUPPORT PEOPLE’s RIGHTS
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President Ishmael Toroama has vowed to continue to protect landowner rights and the people of Bougainville as the region embarks on economic development throughout the region.
The President made this remark during the Official Launching of the Bana Special Economic Zone’s Incorporated Land Groups, Voluntary Land Registration and Social Mapping for the project.
The project was launched at Mamarego Primary School, Baba Constituency in the Bana District of South Bougainville.
President Toroama says he has fought for our land, fought for our resources and fought for the identity of our people to become an independent nation.
The President added that he has confidence that our people will work together with our government to ensure that this project is successfully implemented for the benefit of Bougainville.
President Toroama urged the people to continue to support the project as it progresses towards its development phase.
He said that there will be challenges along the way but the first step is always important as it signifies the people’s commitment to development.
As part of the President Toroama’s Six Point Strategy, Economic Development and Control is the second point.
Under this point, for Bougainville to prosper it will need resources owners to take ownership of their resources and work with the government to develop to develop their resources.
It also encourages investing into key economic sectors, agriculture, fisheries, forestry will promote participatory development through creation of more quality jobs and increase revenue and broaden tax base in Bougainville.
The launching of the project is the third high impact project being initiated by President Toroama and his government.
President Toroama has already launched the Manetai Limestone Project in Central Bougainville and the Tonolei integrated agriculture project in South Bougainville.
The proactive approach by President Toroama is to rid Bougainville of the dependency syndrome and to ensure Bougainville becomes self-sufficient to attain Fiscal Self-reliance.
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