THE Gizo-Kolombangara by-election is set to go ahead next month, with seven months remaining before the current parliament dissolves. The by-election is to fill a parliamentary seat that was left vacant since December 2017. With Parliament dissolving around the second…
Officers at Henderson Police Station have arrested a 30-year-old man who allegedly flattened Twin Otter’s tyre at Munda on April 7, 2018. Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Guadalcanal Province, Superintendent Ishmael Vunagi says, “We received an official complaint, about the…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA SOLOMON Islands National University (SINU) has clarified that lectures are continuing as normal despite SINUSA carrying out a strike to boycott classes recently. SINU office says this following media reports which claim that students have boycotted…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA THE Ministry of Communication and Aviation (MCA) has three years to prepare to take full control of the country’s airspace, it is reported. Currently, Australia has a 40 percent share over Solomon Islands airspace. This is because…
Guadalcanal plains palm oil outgrowers lash out at 2018 Budget BY LYNTON AARON FILIA OUTGROWERS of Guadalcanal oil palm plantation are disappointed with the national government’s budget for 2018, it is reported. Guadalcanal plain farmers say they have been neglected…
