THE youth@work programme, known to groom youths into human resources of the country, is open for interested persons wishing to enrol. Youth@Work (Y@W) will host an info session for youth living in Honiara at the National Art Gallery, starting Monday…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA PLAN to setting up business holding companies in order to drive the private sector especially tourism in Central Islands Province (CIP) is yet to start. From such will create Ngella people having shares in companies according to…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO WHILE the result is still unofficial, the Western provincial assembly has one female MPA. She is Oelyn Muala a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) for South Ranonga Island, Ward 6. Mrs Muala is the wife…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE ACCORDING to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) recently launched Business Plan (2018-2023), offshore fisheries is one of the main revenue providers for the national government. The ministry stated the sector which covers commercial…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA LAST week’s provincial election in Western and Choiseul provinces will see the two provinces with new leaders in the two top positions in the Provincial government level. Former premier of Western Province, Wayne Maepioh was ousted in…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA INCREASING settlements and development of land along the Tenaru strip of area has raised concern among Guadalcanal people alike. For quite some time, there has been discussions in social media on this particular stretch of land and…
TWO Cabinet ministers and opposition figures from Taiwan ally the Solomon Islands are visiting China, reports said Saturday, inciting concern that Taipei might lose another of its 18 remaining allies. Over the past months, the Dominican Republic and Burkina Faso…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA TULAGHI roads are amongst confirmed for maintenance to continue under the National Transport Fund (NTF) Board’s recent meeting. The NTF Board successfully approved funding requested by the Central Project Implementation Unit (CPIU) under the Ministry of Infrastructure…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE THE fishery sector has generated more than $1.1 billion for the Solomon Islands government in the last five years to 2016, all of which is returned to the Solomon Islands government’s consolidated fund. This is according…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA INTERNATIONAL arrivals to Solomon Islands have decreased by 28.5 percent for the first quarter of 2018, compared to the 4th Quarter of 2017, a statistic shows. A report from the Solomon Islands National Statistic Office revealed…
