2017

ARMED MEN HIRED

FOREIGN armed security personnel are said to have been engaged by logging operators in south-west Choiseul, after landowners in a fit of fury burned down machines and equipment last December, eyewitnesses have told Island Sun. Six foreign armed personnel were engaged…

WHERE IS OUR MONEY: LANDOWNERS

THE owners of the land where Lomlom Airport is located are seeking answers from the government regarding their money. The government has already spent $6million as payment for landowners, however some of the landowners said they have not received anything.…

TEMOTU PROVINCE SUPPORTS REVITALIZATION OF DBSI

TEMOTU Province has strongly supported the Government’s intention to revive the former Development Bank of Solomon Islands (DBSI). Reopening the Bank is one of the important flagship policies that the DCCG is currently pursuing. People of the Province were consulted…

DONORS MISLED ON TINA HYDRO

THE Government is sitting on a Memorandum of Understanding [MOU] designed to speed up work on the nation’s multi-million dollar Tina River Hydro scheme, it was revealed yesterday. “Both the last and this government have been sitting on the MOU…

VEKE SUPPORTS FEDERAL SYSTEM

PREMIER for Guadalcanal Province Anthony Veke expressed that Guadalcanal’s main aspirations towards achieving lasting peace and stability is by adopting the Federal System of Governance and the introduction of legislations to avail customary land for development. Veke made the statement…

LACK OF CONSULTATION RESULTS IN WPG PS SAGA

IT is revealed that lack of consultations between the Ministry of Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening (MPGIS), the newly appointed PS for Western Province and its WPG Executive Government is the cause of a collision between two Provincial Secretary’s for…