Refugees’ transfer

PORT MORESBY - Manus Island refugees transferred to a hotel in Papua New Guinea’s capital have been told their weekly allowance will be cut unless they volunteer to move into the community.

About 80 refugees in Granville hotel are under pressure to relocate to residential accommodation.

Along with about 200 other men, they were transferred to Port Moresby last month from the island where they had been detained by Australia since 2013.

During the last six years, about 1500 men had been held on Manus. Now only four or five refugees are thought to remain.