Buka court scales down for Xmas

By STEPHANIE ELIZAH
THE Buka district court has scaled down on its operations during the public service shutdown period from Dec 19 to Jan 9.
Senior provincial ma­gistrate Peter Toliken said this was because the non-availability of ma­gistrate Vincent Linge, who is on leave.
Toliken leaves for Kavieng this week for court circuit duties in New Ireland, leaving magistrate Bruce Tasikul in charge of district court operations.
Toliken said the court registry would be open but Tasikul would only sit on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next three weeks.
Toliken advised urgent after hours applications for search warrants, bail and IPOs could be brought before Tasikul at his home in Rangsua, Selau district, North Bougainville.
He said this was a temporary arrangement and would not affect interim protection orders.