Wutung border to get office complex

THE government has approved the contract for the construction of the second stage of the Wutung pilot border project.
The second stage will have the administration office complex.
This was announced by Border Development Authority executive chairman Douglass Tomuriesa after signing the four-year contract last week.
The Asian Development Bank-funded project that will run for four years is the authority’s first major border project since being established in 2008.
It will be developed at the Wutung village, along the PNG-Indonesian border.
Similar border posts along the Indonesian border will be built at Weam and Mabutawan in Western province and Kangu beach on the PNG Solomons Island border.
 in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
 Tomuriesa thank the government for having confidence in his ability to run the authority.
He said this after signing his four-year contract last week.
Tomuriesa, Police Commissioner Toami Kulunga and public service conciliation and arbitration chairwoman Beverley Doiwa signed their respective contracts at Government House, in Konedobu.
Doiwa will also chair the teachers conciliation and arbitration tribunal, minimum wage board and private sector arbitration tribunal.