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Union who had been active in attempts to negotiate with the employer and the government regarding the compensation and the continuation of their employment with the new management. Timor-Leste...
FRETILIN.Media Flash Dili, 3 October 2011 (20:50 hrs) Issue: CPD-RDTL Demonstration in Dili/Use of FRETILIN flags not authorized by FRETILIN As of this afternoon a number of trucks commenced arriving in Dili from the districts, as the commencement of a “peaceful demonstration” organized by CPD-RDTL. Authorities were apparently notified, but FRETILIN, as with many others, only found out about the planned...
s parliament is ''corrupt and ineffective'', Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has an alcohol problem and former prime minister Mari Alkatiri is ''arrogant and abusive'', according to President Jose Ramos-Horta. Mr Ramos-Horta's caustic observations have been revealed in leaked US embassy cables published by WikiLeaks. But the President doesn't emerge unscathed. The Catholic Church is recorded as sharply...
As you no doubt know by now, Cinema Lorosa'e is screening movies free of charge to the public every Friday at the Sunset Fair and Saturday/Sunday at Government House (Palacio do Governo). This week, the movies will be Happy Feet - dubbed into TETUM with English subtitles (Sunset Fair on Friday, Government House on Sunday). On Saturday night at Gov. House, we will be showing Green Hornet (English with...
s fragile stability will be tested in coming months as the country's political and business elite maneuver ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections in 2012. Some foreign businessmen are already talking quietly about quitting the country during the election build--up, amid widely held fears of turmoil and possible violence. Festering anger over unpunished crimes committed during the Indonesian...
'Stoking the Fires''. Hansen, who spent four years researching and filming the documentary, says Four Corners painted a potentially misleading picture of the government's alleged involvement in arming civilian militia - an issue that remained clouded in uncertainty. He told the Herald the willingness of Four Cornersto accept the testimony of unreliable characters and its failure to investigate possible...
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Fri, 09/02/2011 5:58 PM Taur Matan Ruak, the Timor Leste military chief, resigned on Friday, purportedly in order to run for president next year, a senior official said. Ruak submitted his letter of resignation to the cabinet in Dili, Timor Leste vice-prime minister Jose Luis Guterres said on Friday as quoted by Antara. “The government has received the [resignation] letter,”...
ailebas' and more hundreds of thousands of peasants throughout the country (which many can't even afford to come to DIli to witness these plazas) should also be proud of. Is this the kind of development that timorese people are dreaming about at the moment? I have always heard about increasing growth of TL economy but I wonder how it is distributed among the population. I am probably too ignorant to...
s Soares *Radio Timor-Leste, August 15, 2011 language source: Bahasa Indonesia Timorese Anti-Corruption (KAK) is ready to investigate the Government officials, but it needs an official letter from Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, KAK Commissary Aderito de Jesus Soares said. Tilman was referring to the recent recommendation made PM Gusmao, asking KAK to investigate his officials after the Government's...
s was closed for over 15 mins by protesters sitting down inside the shop. This is when the police were joined by private security and bully boy tactics began in earnest. The senior officer, who earlier said he saw the role of the police as 'facilitating the demonstration' began jumping up and down screaming at protesters and his fellow officers. This is when police and security guard violence escalated....
solidarity to the people of Timor-Leste. Cuban cooperation in the health area that has been ongoing since 2005, and has had all-party support, transcending changes in governments in Timor-Leste since, has saved in excess of 17, 000 lives through service delivery to the grassroots at the village and suco level, where over 5,000,000 consultations have been carried out with the people in rural areas...
Tempo Semanal-14/07/2011 Taur Matan Ruak Xefe Estadu Maior das Falintil (philip Blenkinsop) Reliable Tempo Semanal souces said that the Chief of the East Timorese Defence Force, FALINTIL-FDTL has strongly indicated in public and in private that it is his intention to soon resign from the defence force because he intends to run in the 2012 Presidential election. Ruak’s most serious competition on the...
*JORNAL INDEPENDENTE* DILI, 12 July 2011 *FRETILIN, PUN MPs Walk Out, Development Plan Approved* DILI: The government’s draft of the National Strategic Development Plan was approved yesterday by the parliament after MPs from FRETILIN and the National Unity Party walked out of the discussion session. The plan was supported unanimously by the 38 MPs - members of the alliance group and PPT, and an independent...
Summary La’o Hamutuk preliminary analysis of the Strategic Development Plan as presented to Parliament 11 July 2011 This is a summary of La’o Hamutuk’s initial analysis of the Strategic Development Plan. Although we only received it 5 days ago, the Government demands that Parliament approve it today, so we prepared comments to inform their discussion and the Development Partners Meeting. Our 13-page...