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Download 3.97 MB Mining companies, including some from Australia, that have been jostling to reopen the controversial Panguna mine in Bougainville are largely staying quiet after the region s president said the area remains off limits to would-be developers. In a statement President Ishmael Toroama said there is a moratorium in place over Panguna as well as the surrounding areas . The Panguna Mine remains a very sensitive issue on Bougainville and parties wishing to reopen it must maintain a sense of decorum that respects the land, the landowners and the ABG (Autonomous Bougainville Government) . Mr Toroama mentioned several mining companies but singled out the deal struck by his predecessor Father John Momis with Australian company Caballus to reopen Panguna and amend Bougainville s mining law. ....
Bougainville s President has firmly rejected a claim that an Australian company, Caballus Mining, will operate the Panguna mine. Ishmael Toroama has released a statement in response to a landowner group, Panguna Tangkuúrang Chiefs, claiming that they d given approval for Caballus. The Panguna copper and gold mine in Bougainville was closed down for operations in 1989 at the start of the civil war. Photo: RNZ / Johnny Blades The company had been in talks with the Autonomous Bougainville Government under former president John Momis regarding the potential re-opening of the large copper and gold mine. But Toroama has made a clear departure from any links with the company. ....
One is Peter Tsiamalili, who is now a Bougainville businessman with agricultural interests, but previously headed the Papua New Guinea Sports Foundation. He is also the son of a noted former Bougainville administrator who went on to be a prominent PNG diplomat. Tsiamalili finished third in that presidential race and said, now, with the backing of the man who did win, Ishmael Toroama, he sees the role as a public relations one for Bougainville at the national level. Kind of being more like a spokesperson for the president and having an insight into the national parliament. And then obviously getting the north, central and south working together with that member - and that s my view, Tsaimalili said. ....
RNZ 12 December, 2020, 10:15 am Six candidates are to contest the Bougainville regional seat made vacant when Joe Lera (pictured) resigned to contest the Bougainville presidency. Photo: Bougainville Care Foundation Six candidates are to contest the Bougainville regional seat made vacant when Joe Lera resigned to contest the Bougainville presidency. The regional seat is one of the four Bougainville seats in the Papua New Guinea national parliament. Three of the candidates challenged for the presidency in Bougainville’s election in August. They are Peter Tsiamalili, the Bougainville businessman who previously headed the Papua New Guinea Sports Foundation, Simon Dumarinu, who had held the seat briefly after the PNG elections in 2017, only to lose it in a challenge from Joe Lera, and Albert Punghau, who had been a cabinet minister in the previous John Momis adminstration. ....