2017

NEW CRAFT CENTRE FOR THE COUNTRY

THE Ministry of Culture and Tourism through its Culture Division has proposed establishing the first ever crafts centre for the country. The crafts centre is being planned to be built in the current Art Gallery site in Honiara. Director of…

COUNCIL OF TOURISM MINISTERS A SUCCESS

COUNCIL of Tourism Ministers in Gizo is being hailed a success as the national Tourism Ministry heard for itself the plans of each provincial ministry towards tourism development. All ideas contributed are collected and combined into a document as data…

READ SI WINS PRIME MINISTER’S HEART

A recently established literacy organisation in the Solomon Islands has won Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s heart for its mission to battle the country’s high illiteracy rate by providing literacy classes and libraries in 600 villages across the country by April…

SCHOLARSHIP REDUCTION FOR 2018

IT has surfaced that overseas scholarships for next year, 2018 will perhaps be reduced. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) Permanent Secretary highlighted this during last week’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing. “As of next year, we…

GOV’T SCHOLARSHIP ABUSE

Minister reveals system abused, Ministry calls for review THE Ministry of Finance and Treasury has disclosed that the process in obtaining government tertiary scholarships was abused and that government had continued to pour money into ‘what seems to be a…

PM UNDER PRESSURE?

..Sogavare reportedly forced to sack two ministers under internal pressure TWO senior government ministers stand to lose their portfolios as Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare finally relented under Party pressure to act, internal sources said. “It is looking likely. And it…