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Local Daily News
January 12,2015
*President of the republic call for young Timorese to stay away from violence
*Televizaun Timor-Leste, January 12, 2015 language source: Tetun
President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak (TMR) has called on the Timorese people and the young Timorese who to stay from acts of violence in the country. TMR
made the call regarding the recent acts of violence which led to the death of three young men in Baucau and one young man in the Capital of Dili. He said anyone
who involved in acts of violence and took other people’s lives was crime; therefore they had to respond to such attitude in courts. “I extend condolence to the families
who have lost their loved ones. I am calling on the young Timorese to stay away from such things,” he said.
*Security situation in the country goes well: Xanana
*Televizaun Timor-Leste, January 12, 2014 language source: Tetun
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao affirmed that security situation in the country was normal, although there was acts of violence, engaging martial arts clubs in Baucau,
and the Capital of Dili. Xanana made the comments after meeting with the president of the Republic at the Palace of the President. The prime minister said he also
met with the state secretary for defense and security and also the defense force commander, talking about the ongoing security situation in the country.
*Martial arts clubs conflict appears because of moral crises: Bishop Nacimento
*Televizaun Timor-Leste, January 12, 2015 language source: Tetun
Bishop of Baucau Diocese, Monsignor Basilio Nacimento said martial arts clubs appeared in the country because people were now facing moral crises. The bishop
made the comments regarding the recent acts of violence, happening in Baucau and the Capital of Dili. Monsignor Nacimento also affirmed these young people
engaged in violent action due to poor condition of lives and that was being the cause of the conflict. “The young people are seeking for attention. They get involved
in acts of violence because of poor condition of lives and it can appear violence and shows to the society that such an attitude needs attention,” he said.
*Communities say yes to Xanana’s plan of reshuffle
*Televizaun Timor-Leste, January 12, 2015 language source: Tetun
Communities and students in the Capital of Dili have said they agree with Prime Minister’s good will of reshuffling his cabinet and hoped it would really happen
on coming days. According to them, the current structure of the Government is too big and that must be made to be smaller as many ministers will not help do a
productive works. “If the structure is big, certain people might have personal interest and some have no capacity, but they were appointed to place some important
positions,” A student said.
*Gov to take F-FDTL and PNTL officers for oath taking
*Radio Timor-Leste, January 12, 2015 language source: Tetun
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has pledged to take the Timorese Defense Force (F-FDTL) soldiers and the National Police (PNTL) officers, as well as the public
civil servants for an oath taking regarding their engagement in martial arts clubs. In regard to this initiative, the communities in the Capital of Dili said they agreed with
PM Xanana’s brilliant idea, saying it would help prevent other acts of violence in the future. Salvador Guterres said PM Xanana’s idea was good to help accelerate
the country’s development with peace and stability. “I do really appreciate Prime Minister Xanana’s idea as some of the country’s security forces members engaged
and that will give space to other people to destroy the country,” he said.
*Xanana shows democracy model of Timor-Leste to the world: Horta
*Independente, January 12, 2015 language source: Tetun
Nobel Peace Laureate, Jose Ramos Horta appreciates much Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao’s commitment to make reshuffle of his cabinet as an important phase
to show a model of democracy of the State of Timor-Leste to the world. “I do believe that the reshuffle of cabinet will go forward, it is really good for our country and is
also a good example to the world,” Horta said. Horta affirmed that he and PM Xanana had talked deeply about the issue of reshuffle cabinet and said Xanana himself
knew better about his members’ weaknesses and strengths. He added that Xanana would make a fair decision which was not based on whether the Government
members were from CNRT, PD or from Frente-Mudana political parties.
*President TMR agrees with PM Xanana’s reshuffle of Cabinet
*Indepedente, January 12, 2015 language source: Tetun
President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak (TMR) and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao have talked on the plan of cabinet reshuffle of the country’s Government
members. TMR said he agreed with PM Xanana’s political decision to make restructure of his cabinet members as it was too big. “Both of us talked on determination
of to make re-adjustment in the Government and that is normal where all countries make it,” he said. He called on the Government members who would be reshuffled
to continue contributing to the country’s development.
*Heineken Asia pacific to build beverage plant in Timor-Leste
*Indepedente, January 12, 2015
The multi-beverage plant will be built near Dili, the Capital of Timor-Leste, with construction set to begin in 2015. Heneiken Asia Pacific has announced that it would
be building a multi-beverage plant in Timor-Leste. Under the agreement, a multi-beverage plant will be built near Dili, the Capital of Timor-Leste this year. The plan
would be able to manufacture a variety of drinks, including beer and soft drinks and water.
*Civil society organizations want corruptors and polygamists to be on target
*Timor Post, January 12, 2015 language source: Tetun
Civil society organizations continue calling on Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to substitute his Government members who are suspected of being engaged in corruption and polygamy. Director for Luta Hamutuk, Mericio Akara said the Government members who had got criminal accusation had no more moral authorities to
manage the country’s state budget. “Minister for Finance, Emilia Pires, everyone knows her case and others. Therefore, they should be replaced,” Akara said. Akara
preferred PM Xanana Gusmao to substitute ministers and state secretaries who committed polygamy after assuming the posts.
*Govt fails to reintegrate martial arts clubs members: MAHEIN’s Belo
*Timor Post, January 12, 2015 language source: Tetun
Director for MAHEIN Foundation, Nelso Belo said the Government failed in reintegration of martial arts clubs members into the community when the martial arts
organized were closed down. “The Government fails to reintegrate the ex-members of martial arts clubs as it does not look at them as the country’s national citizens
and should treat them properly and do not leave them,” Belo said. Belo explained that the Government had to place those martial arts members in an appropriate
legal organization or create proper conditions for them, so that they could not feel that they were left behind. “They were left; therefore other people use them to create conflict. Why I said other people? Other people can be here and out of the country,” he said.
January 09,2015
*Many emergency projects in poor quality: MP Moreira
*Radio Timor-Leste, January 9, 2014 language source: Tetun
The Parliament Commission of Inquiry’s investigation findings shows many emergency projects implemented by the Government in Viqueque, Same, Mantuto and
Suai is in poor quality. President of the Commission, MP Inacion Moreira said more than 100 projects implemented throughout the country, but many of the projects
were not with contracts. Mr. Moreira called on the Government not to continue committing the mistakes it had made and called for improvement in the implementation
of the projects.
*MAHEIN condemns PNTL officers who back martial arts clubs
*Radio Timor-Leste, January 9, 2014 language source: Tetun
MAHEIN Foundation has strongly condemned some of the National police (PNTL) officers who are suspected of being engaged in backing martial arts clubs in the
country. Director for MAHEIN, Nelson Belo made the comments regarding the martial arts clubs which continued engaging in conflicts as certain police officers suspected of backing them “There must be an investigation into the case by the state organs, so that they can be sanctioned,” he said.
*SEAPRI and international company Heineken to produce beer in TL
*Televizaun Timor-Leste, January 9, 2015 language source: Tetun
State Secretary for the Supports of Private Sector (SEAPRI) has officially signed agreement with an international company called HEINEKEN to produce beer in the
country. State Secretary for SEAPRI, Veneranda Lemos said the beer production would be made in 2016, but the process of workers recruitment was held this year.
Ms. Lemos affirmed that this job opportunity would employ more than 1000 the young Timorese. “The establishment of the fabrics is held this year and will end in
2016 and it will employ more than 1000 young Timorese,” she said.
*SEPI encourages its members to promote gender equality
*Televizaun Timor-Leste, January 9, 2015 language source: Tetun
The State Secretariat of Gender Equality Promotion (SEPI) yesterday held an annual meeting to encourage its staff members to better manage the institution’s work
in promoting gender equality in the country. State Secretary for SEPI, Idelta Maria Rodrigues said this meeting was good to help encourage her staffs to better serve
the country’s women. “We make this assessment as we all want to work with responsibility in carrying to better serve the country,” she said.
*Baucau case is public crime: President TMR
*Suara Timor Loro Sa’e, January 9, 2015 language source: Tetun
President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak (TMR) said Baucau case was a public crime and was not about martial arts; therefore it must be condemned with the
existing laws in the country. “Acts of violence in Baucau was not committed by martial arts members, but it was by criminals as martial arts clubs evolve many people;
so the clubs which commit crime must respond to their acts of crime,” the president said. TMR added that the members of certain martial arts clubs who engaged in
killing the three young men had to be taken to the court.
*Govt to take strong action against martial arts clubs, says Lasama
*Suara Timor Loro Sa’e, January 9, 2015 language source: Tetun
Deputy Prime Minister Fernando “Lasama” Araujo affirmed that the Government would take strong actions against the martial arts clubs of which members engaged
in acts of violence. Lasama explained the Government had issued its resolution last few years, aiming to close down the martial arts clubs which always created
problems and said these martial arts had no longer been exist in the country. He added that the Timorese people needed love and peace; therefore Prime Minister
Xanana had declared to strongly sanction those martial arts clubs.
*Xanana pledges to make reshuffle cabinet in February
*Suara Timor Loro Sa’e, January 9, 2015 language source: Tetun
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has pledged to realize his promise by making reshuffle cabinet after 18th of February this year. The reshuffle will be made based
on the assessment made to the two-year office tenure of the Government. “My plan of making reshuffles is only in the air. I am saying it will be made after the 18th
of February,” he told the media. Xanana has not yet named which minister will include in his next month’s cabinet reshuffle plan.
*Xanana does not want to appear another election
*Independente, January 9, 2015
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao said he would not appear or hold another election as it would draw bad precedence. Xanana was responding to the ex-Deputy
Prime Minister Mario Viegas Carrascalao’s comments, saying the best way is to hold another election if the engine of the Government has not run well. “I will not hold
another election which can make CNRT party to lose in the elections, but it will only waste money and we create bad precedence,” he said.
*Portugal boosts cooperation in education sector
*Independente, January 9, 2015
Timor-Leste’s Minister of Education, Bendito Freitas and Portugal’s Minister of Education, Nuno Crato, signed an agreement on cooperation in the education sector.
The agreement was signed in Lisbon on the 2nd of January. The agreement sets out a protocol for the implementation and operation of the project school learning
and Teacher Training centers of Timor-Leste. The projects will involve around 150 Portuguese teachers coming to Timor-Leste in 2015.
*PNTL needs to secure stability, says JSMP’s director
*Diario Nacional, January 9, 2015 language source: Tetun
Director for Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP), Luis Oliveira Sampaio has called on all the Timorese people to unite for encouraging the country’s National
Police Force (PNTL) to secure stability of the State. Mr. Sampaio made the comments, following numbers of acts of violence happened during the celebration of the
Christmas and New Year Eve. “Being the country’s citizens we are sad and concerned about it, but the State has the power and capacity to control the situation,
especially PNTL as an instrument of the State to be independent in responding to it.” “As the public think that some individuals of the police officers suspected of
being engaged in the groups, so it makes confidence in them is low,” he said.
January 08,2015
*Commander Lere disagrees with idea of drafting law to shoot martial arts members
*Radio Timor-Leste, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
The Timorese Defense Force (F-FDTL) Commander, Major General Lere Anan Timur said he disagreed with some entities that wanted to produce laws to be used
for permitting security forces to shoot martial arts members who engaged in acts of violence. Lere made the comments after having a meeting with the president of
the republic at the Palace of the president yesterday. The commander called on the competent state organs to draft law to be used for regulating the country citizens,
so that they could be afraid of the law. “I am calling on our leaders, especially those who make law to produce law, so that our citizens have to be afraid of the law
not to be afraid of weapons,” said.
*Media Law Article 24 to give opportunity to foreigners to monopolize media in TL
*Radio Timor-Leste, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
Deputy President of the Parliamentary Committee A, Arao Noe said the Article 24 of the country’s media law which the Court of Appeal considered to be constitutional
would give opportunity to foreigners to monopolize investment of the media in Timor-Leste. Mr. Noe explained was learned by the Court of Appeal after the Parliament passed the Article as it could more spaces to the foreigners to dominate investment in the media. “We abide by the referred Article as it has been promulgated
by the president of the republic and it has been publicized in the state gazette,” he said.
*ME distributes more than 1000 desks to schools in Lautem
*Televizaun Timor-Leste, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
Deputy Minister for Education (ME), Virgilio Smith has officially handed over more than 1000 desks to schools in the country’s eastern municipal of Lautem. Mr. Smith
in his speech marking the handing over ceremony called on the students at schools in the area to use those desks properly in the learning process. “I am calling on
the students here to use the desks properly and take care of them during the learning process,” he said. Director for Education of Municipal of Lautem, Caetano da
Costa and the students were pleased with the provided desks and thanked the Government for the support.
*Communities call on Govt to provide more trees to be planted
*Televizaun Timor-Leste, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
A group of community, living in Lahane, the Capital of Dili yesterday called on the State Secretariat of Forestry to provide more trees for them to be planted on the
hills of Lahane. Spokesperson for the community group members, Adelino da Silva made the comments after growing numbers of hardwood trees in the area. Mr.
Silva said they were pleased with the trees provided by the State Secretariat of Forestry as it could help the communities from natural disaster. “We are trying to grow
these trees as they can help provide us benefits and also protect us from natural disaster,” he said.
*One police officer wounded in young gang clash in Viqueque
*Timor Post, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
Seven of the National Police Force (PNTL) officers sustained injuries when responding to young gangs clash, happening in the eastern Municipal of Viqueque. One
of the police officers was seriously wounded. PNTL Operational Commander, Armando Monteiro said the incident happened on the first of January when those young
gangs celebrated the New Year Eve on the beach were drunk and attacked one another. Commander Monteiro said the police dispatched to the crime scene for
responding to the situation, but unfortunately his officers were injured during their response to the clash.
*PM Xanana should do practices his promises: Haburas’s Guterres
*Timor Post, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao pledged to make a change to his cabinet many times, yes this promise has not realized up to-date. He has to prove like what Jesus
did to Thomas. “I do not believe that the reshuffle into his cabinet would happen it is only a statement. I am not afraid of people, talking about me that I have to hold
with my hands [put my finger into the Jesus’ wounded hand] so that I can believe,” Director for Haburas Foundation, Virgilio Guterres said. Director for AJAR [the Asia
Justice and Rights], Jose Luis Oliveira expected Xanana not to only make statements rather realizing his policies. “I hope Xanana’s promise to be realized because
sometimes politicians only make statements, yet what the implement is different from what they promise,” he said.
*Baucau case can make investors afraid to invest in TL: MP Marcal
*Suara Timor Loro Sa’e, January 8, 2014 language source: Tetun
Member of the Parliament, Albina Marcal said the recent case in the eastern municipal of Baucau would make international investors be afraid of coming to invest
in Timor-Leste as they wanted peaceful environment. Ms. Marcal explained that if there was no stability and people here in the country always committed acts of
violence, the investor would not bring their capital to invest in Timor-Leste. She added that it was good to deploy the police to do patrol to make the situation calm, so
that people could remain calm. “I think the Government has to make efforts to deploy the police do patrol in order to make the situation calm,” she said.
*UNTAS suspected of backing martial arts clubs
*Suara Timor Loro Sa’e, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
Timor-Leste has been in the risk of conflict, UNTAS [a pro-Indonesia organization] is suspected of being engaged in backing the young gangs to create instability in
the country. “UNTAS is still exist in Timor-Leste; that is why it continues doing underground activities by pushing the young gangs to create problems, so that TimorLeste cannot remain calm,” the Parliament Member, Paulino Monteiro said. MP Monteiro affirmed he suspected UNTAS as many young Timorese went to Indonesia
for martial arts graduation under the Indonesia’s Merah Putih [Indonesia’s national flag]. He called on the security forces to pay attention to this illegal organization
in order to ensure peace and stability in the country.
*Thirty three PSHT members appear in court
*Independente, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
Thirty three of PSHT martial arts yesterday appeared in Dili District Court for their first hearings. These martial arts members were taken to the court, following their
engagement in setting up check points during the process of autopsy for the two dead bodies of martial arts members in the referral hospital of Baucau. The recent
acts violence in Baucau has led to the death three martial arts members and at least six houses were set on fire.
*BK and Fretilin apathetic toward corruption: Carrascalao
*Independente, January 8, 2015 language source: Tetun
The ex-Deputy Prime Minister Mario Viegas Carrascalao said the Coalition Party (BK) and the Fretilin MPs had not really been concerned about corruption cases by
criticizing members of the Government who were suspected of engaging in corruption. Carrascalo affirmed that BK even had never thought of taking its members who
engaged in corruption to be legally processed. According to him, the current Fretilin MPs are different from the previous ones who always criticized the Government
when it did not implement its programs properly. “There has been no more opposition in the Parliament as they do something should always go through consensus,”
he said.