{"id":166670,"date":"2018-03-22T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T05:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emtv.com.pg\/?p=166670"},"modified":"2018-03-22T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T05:34:28","slug":"pm-oneill-commits-to-giving-autonomy-to-new-ireland-and-east-new-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/pm-oneill-commits-to-giving-autonomy-to-new-ireland-and-east-new-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"PM O&#8217;Neill Commits to Giving Autonomy to New Ireland and East New Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Peter O&#8217;Neill had recently visited the East New Britain and New Ireland provincial governments.<\/p>\n<p>In his visit to the provinces, PM O&#8217;Neill made a commitment to the two provinces to have autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Neill said the National Government cannot continue to micromanage provinces in the next five years and it is important that the two provinces receive autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neill said his government will ensure these island provinces receive autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>He said his government has seen the need for better services in rural areas, which had prompted the creation of the District Development Authority (DDA).<\/p>\n<p>However, there are problems at the most rural level that need much attention. Services such as education and health which are supposed to be free. The question now is: Will autonomy improve these situations?<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Neill says just because there are challenges it should not stop the government from continuing to implement their policies.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Governor of New Ireland Province, Sir Julius Chan, says they are ready for autonomy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"PM O&#039;Neill Commits to Giving Autonomy to New Ireland and East New Britain\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jn4HSnS_Lv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr O\u2019Neill said the National Government cannot continue to micromanage provinces in the next five years and it is important that the two provinces receive autonomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,47,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-islands","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}