Items filtered by date: May 2020

DILI: Timor-Leste rounded out its fourth week of no new COVID-19 cases, the health authority reported.

DILI: President of the Republic Francisco Guterres Lu-Olo has sworn in eight new members of government on Friday, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace.

DILI: The Major General of Timor-Leste Defence Force, Lere Anan Timur,  has called on the nation’s veterans to stand behind its leaders, saying any political rift could stoke discrimination between supporters from different parties.

DILI: Timor-Leste is behind on its promised subsidy payments to households, hurting families that have lost income under the coronavirus pandemic.

DILI: Five members from the National Congress for Reconstruction (CNRT) party resigned from Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak’s Cabinet on Monday, less than 24 hours after their leader Xanana Gusmao announced the party would not continue in government and would move to opposition.

DILI: The leader of the National Congress for Reconstruction (CNRT), one of the biggest groups in parliament, said on Saturday the party will not continue as a member of the coalition government but intends to play a responsible role in opposition.

DILI: Timor-Leste will pay households $100 to subsidise lost wages, as part of a stimulus designed to limit the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic on the country’s economy.

DILI: Timor-Leste’s parliament will vote on when to re-open schools next week, having kept them closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government said on Friday.

DILI:Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak has pledged to finalise the government’s cabinet, closing off an almost two-year stand-off over the appointments. 

DILI:The Integrated Crisis Management Centre’s (CIGC) spokesperson Dr Odete Viegas praised the public’s coronavirus response and called its collaboration “key” to Timor-Leste’s low infection rate, in a briefing after the World Health Organisation local representatives meeting in Dili on Tuesday.