DILI: Timor-Leste’s government has made payments of $100 a month to families across the country that lost income during the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, Armanda Berta, the Vice Prime Minister and the Minister for Social Solidarity and Inclusion (MSSI) said.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak said on Thursday he would present the 2020 general budget in September and parliament would vote on it in October.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s political powerhouse, the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT), returned to parliament on Tuesday ending their refusal participate in debates under the new Speaker of the House.
DILI: The lack of progress on the Oé-Cusse Development project must prompt a rethink of the capacity of its President Jose Luis Gutteres, Fretilin’s Fabio de Oliver has said.
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: 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.