MALAITA PROVINCE PASSES BUDGET

The Malaita Provincial Assembly has passed a budget of about 15 million dollars for the 2011-20112 financial year.

Gabriel Riotarau reports from provincial capital, Auki that the Provincial Assembly passed the budget Tuesday this week.

He quotes Provincial Secretary, Harold Leka as saying that the recurrent budget is about nine million dollars and the province expects to spend about eight million dollars during the financial year.

Mr Riotarau says the Malaita Province's development budget is just over six million dollars.

He says, Malaita's budget has a surplus of just over 344-thousand dollars.

source: SIBC