BY BARNABAS MANEBONA LOGS now shipped are said to be of not good size trees but this is the third shipment within recent weeks ashore of Tulaghi Island at Big Ngella raising grave concern for locals. Whoever behind these shipments…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA ALCOHOL Consumption at Choiseul Province is raising grave concern. Recently, Ms Jenny Onoto the Women’s Coordinator at Christ the King Parish Voruvoru Mission Station, Northwest Choiseul, during a Chiefs Leadership summit workshop highlighted the concern showing in…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO HUNDREDS of voters have arrived in Gizo for the Gizo/Kolombangara by-election. On Wednesday 23rd May, polling stations will open at 7am and close at 5pm. In an interview with Mr Christian Siale, the Western Province…
PRIME Minister Rick Houenipwela has expressed the need for the Government to begin the process in seriously purchasing a CT scan for the country. The Prime Minister highlighted this when he visited Sony’s Medical Container Facility in Iwaki City, Fukushima,…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA THE first of the meetings to discuss events to mark ‘World Environment Day’ (WED) will take place today. A small organising committee comprising of various stakeholders has been established to oversee the plan and programme activities for…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA A NON-Profitable Organisation (NGO) called Friends of the City (FTC) is taking initiatives to discuss the development and social challenges facing Honiara City and to fashion the best way forward to a clean, safe and beautiful Honiara…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA CLIMATE change is still the biggest challenge in the Solomon Islands with impacts of sea level rise and intense weather events posing a serious threat to islands and coastline dwellers. Solomon Islands is surrounded by…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA BEAT Plastic Pollution”, the theme for World Environment Day (WED) 2018, is a call to action for all of us to come together to combat one of the great environmental challenges of our time. As countries plan…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA A SOLOMON Islander, is set to be the next director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS) in Hawaii. Dr Tarcisius Kabutaulaka started his journey from Haimatua village in the Tasimauri area of Guadalcanal on the…
DEAR EDITOR, a news bulletin on Radio New Zealand on Monday this week said a youth-led project to empower deaf communities in the Pacific region had been granted US funding to further their need for equality. The particular capacity building…
