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Items filtered by date: Thursday, 08 August 2019

By : Oki & Monty Jacka

Tempotimor (Dili) – In Timor-Leste, there is currently no law which forces the government to use local industry over international companies.

As a result of this, international companies are used regularly for mega projects across the country, hurting local companies who are being overlooked by their own government.

International companies who win big projects also hold no obligation to utilise local industry. They often refuse to buy sand and stone from local timorese, instead bringing in supplies and even labourers from abroad.

Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKI-TL), Hergui Luina Fernandes described the situation as worrisome.

"We are sad! In the private sector there is currently no law supporting local industry. We often think this law exists, but actually it is very sad because it doesn’t," Ms Fernandes said on Friday.

While the Timor Sea agreement laid out legislation for 10% of work to be done by local companies, nothing has been created in national law yet, she explained.

"This is very troublesome to the private sector, because people who come and work on big projects in Timor, they have the right to bring everything from their country, one example is the Tibar Port project,” Ms Fernandes said.

“Our country investing a fair amount of money in the project, but the agreement has nothing to discuss about local companies."

This situation is so harmful, especially around Liquisa where there are Timorese investing in sand washing and destroying stones, but being overlooked in favour of overseas companies, Ms Fernandes explained.

"We visited various places up to Aileu, where the Chinese are putting their own machines to wash sand, crush rocks,” she said.

“We as Timorese cannot go forward, when there are no laws to support local companies.”

"International companies have told us that no legal force can force us. There is no law, no agreement that forces them to have a local context.”

“As a private sector, we are saddened by this situation where there is no opportunity for Timorese," Ms Fernandes expressed.

The situation will continue. The oil and gas pipeline to Timor will not benefit the Timorese the way it should, because when this opportunity is open to multinational companies, they will bring everything from their countries, Ms Fernandes said.

"We will not become a sovereign state, economically we will become dependent on foreign countries.”

Businessman Rui Castro also raised the issue about businessmen from abroad coming to Timor, renting land and using it to grow vegetables to sell back to Timorese people.

"This happens in Aileu many times, in Atabae there are also a few, if we keep this sector open and free, it will not provide good protection and eventually people from abroad will take over everything," Mr Castro said.

Mr Castro is urging the Government to establish a good policy in it’s agriculture sector which will provide opportunities to Timorese.

“If not, what will happen in Aileu, Atabae, Batugade (Bobonaro) and Natarbora (Manatuto), is that the overseas people will rent the land and use it to grow vegetables and sell it back to Timorese.”

The Government has established numerous international partnerships with countries such as China and Germany, which are causing this to happen, Mr Castro said.

A chinese company has opened the shrimp industry in Loes, while others have planted chilies in Natarbora and the other one is now in Manatuto, he said.

The Interim Minister for economic affairs and the Minister of Legislative reform and Parliamentary affairs, Fidelis Manuel Leite Magalhaes, responded to the comments, saying the government has noted the them and would inform local entrepreneurs and the relevant law-making ministries.

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Tempotimor (Dili) – Forum Organizasaun Naun-Governamental (ONG) Timor-Leste, kontinua husu ba Prezidente Repúblika (PR) Francisco Guterres Lú Olo atu veta proposta lei ne'ebé Governu haruka ona ba PR, liuliu proposta kona-ba lei Atividade Petrolífeiru (AP) no Fundu Petrolífeiru (FP).
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Tempotimor (Dili) – Koordenador ONG La’o Hamutuk, Celestino Gusmão hatete, loron 30 Agusto 2019 sai nu'udar loron importante ba Timor-Leste. Tanba, Timor-Leste hetan ninia soberania ba Tasi Timor.
 
Maske nune'e, Cesaltino fanu ema hotu-hotu nia hanoin kona-ba Timor-Leste nia belun di'ak na’in rua, Witness K ho Bernard Collaery ne'ebé agora iha hela prosesu judisáriu iha sira nia nasaun Austrália.
 
"Agora iha média Austrália no iha rai laran namanas loos kona-ba ita nia kolega na'in rua. Ba povu TL no ba ami Movimentu Kontra Okupasaun Tasi Timor (MKOTT) Witness K no Bernard Collaery sai erroi ba Timor-Leste," dehan Celestino Gusmão iha Palásiu Prezidensiál, Kinta (08/08/2019).
 
Nia dehan, lider nasionál Timor-Leste preokupa ho belun na’in rua ne'e. Tanba belun boot na'in rua ne'e, iha hela prosesu judisiáriu iha Austrália. 
 
"Oras ne'e sira na'in rua iha hela prosesu judisiáriu. Ita nia lider nasional hanesan señor Ramos Horta mós preokupa, maun boot Xanana Gusmão mós preokupa ba kestaun ne'e. Katak ema na'in rua ne'e, TL nia belun boot. Ita hakarak selebra vitória boot ne'ebé ita hetan selebra tinan 20 konsulta popular iha kolega na'in rua nia terus leten," dehan Celestino
 
Collaery ho Witness K sai belun di'ak Timor-Leste nian, depois sira na’in rua deskreve asaun espionase ne'ebé hamosu preokupasaun kona-ba serbisu sekretu ida husi ASIO, Austrália nia ajensia ba servisu sekretu nia operasaun, ne'ebé monta instrumentu espionase iha edifisiu ida iha Díli, iha tinan 2004. Hahalok ne'e akontese durante prosesu negosiasaun kona-ba tratadu mina no gas Tasi Timor la'o namanas hela entre Timor-Leste ho Australia.
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Tempotimor (Dili) – Primeiru Ministru (PM) Taur Matan Ruak ho Prezidente Interinu Rejiaun Administrativa Espesial Oé-Cusse Ambeno (RAEOA) no Zona Espesial Ekonomia Sosiál Merkadu (ZEESM), Arsenio Paixão Bano, rezolve tiha ona problema ne'ebé ekipa tranzisaun hasoru iha Oé-Cusse. 
 
"Laiha buat ida. Tanba foin lalais señor prezidente interinu mai hasoru ha'u. Ami rezolve hotu problema.  Agora la'o di'ak loos," dehan PM Taur Matan Ruak iha Palásiu Prezidensiál Bairro-pite, Kinta (08/08/2019).
 
Ekipa tranzisaun ne'ebé PM haruka ba halo avaliasaun ba projeitu hotu iha RAEOA no ZEESM, to'o iha Oé-Cusse iha loron 30 Jullu 2019 liubá.
 
Tenke Jestór Di'ak
 
Entretantu, Diretór Ezekutivu Forum ONG Timor-Leste (FONGTIL), Daniel Carmo dos Santos espera, lideransa ida ne'ebé atu lidera Rejiaun Administrativa Espesial Oé-Cusse Ambeno (RAEOA) no Zona Espesial Ekonomia Sosiál Merkadu (ZEESM) tenke iha matenek jestaun nian.
 
"Ita presiza ema ne'ebé iha kapasidade jestaun ne'e to'o ona. Nia atu polítika ka la polítika ne'e la'os ita nia kestaun. Tanba, ita la han no hemu polítika. Kestaun mak ema ne'ebé hatene jestaun," hatete Daniel Carmo dos Santos bainhira remata sorumutu ho Prezidente Repúblika iha Palásiu Prezidensiál Bairro-pite, Kinta (08/08/2019).
 
Tuir Daniel, sosiedade sivil preokupa mak sustentabilidade husi projeitu ZEESM ne'e. Tanba, nia dehan, estadu gasta tiha osan lubuk ida.
Published in Politika
Thursday, 08 August 2019 16:46

SEKJEN Ameasa, Kuadrus FRETILIN Sadik

Tempotimor (Dili) - Eis Prezidente Rejiaun Administrativu Espesial Oe – Kusi Ambeno (RAEOA), atual Sekretariu Jeral Partidu FRETILIN, Mari bin Amude Alkatiri halo ameasa forte ida ba dirijentes, lideransa partidu inklui deputadu opozisaun sira ne’ebé karik deklara apoiu governu no maioria iha Parlamentu Nasionál hodi hatama surat rezignasaun bainhira la kumpri nia orden.

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Tempotimor (Dili) – Primeiru Ministru Taur Matan Ruak afirma, tanba nesesidade nasaun, Orsamentu Jerál Estadu (OJE) tinan 2020, prevé biliaun 1.6 dollares Amérika.
Published in Politika
Thursday, 08 August 2019 12:12

FRETILIN Ezije Tempotimor.com Husu Deskulpa

Tempotimor (Díli) – Partidu FRETILIN, ezije Tempotimor.com, husu deskulpa ba Sekretáriu Jerál FRETILIN, Partido FRETILIN no públiku tanba notisia ho titlu: “Alkatiri Ameasa Kuadrus Ho Deputado FRETILIN” laloos no falsu.

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By : Oki & Sally Rummery

Tempotimor (Dili) -Changes to budget funding in Timor-Leste’s tourism sector have halted the industry’s development progress of basic amenities in tourist areas, with the government instead concentrating on large scale projects.

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