January 19, 2018

Less tourists visiting SI affects carvers

BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO DECREASING number of tourists visiting the capital, Honiara, affects local cavers’ revenue in the months of December 2018 and January 2018. A concerned local carver from Marovo Lagoon, Western Province told Island Sun the current trend…

Call for tougher penalty on sex offenders

BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THE President of the Solomon Islands Bar Association Silverio Lepe says court should be consistent and impose tougher sentences against child sex offenders. He made the call following the increase in sexual violation against children. “2018 has…

Islanders aiming high

By Taromane Martin FOUNDER of Honiara based Islanders rugby club Mr Derek Pongi says this year they are aiming to be the best in both the 15s and 7s codes. Mr Pongi says 2018 is an exciting year for their…

TSL champs loom

Starts next Saturday By Taromane Martin THE Telekom Soccer League championship knockout competition is set to kick off Saturday next week at the Lawson Tama Stadium. All eight teams that competed in last season of the TSL will compete in…

CONSTANT BAD NEWS STUNTS RECOVERY.

DEAR Editor, ‘In reporting confidence comes with truth not spin.” Some years ago, I recall reading an article by a young Irish journalist, Seamus Conboy, writing in the ‘’The Journal,’ perhaps an Irish publication, when he said: “People have become…

SolAir threatens newspaper

Solomon airlines warns legal action against Island Sun unless it stops reporting about the airlines BY ALFRED SASAKO SOLOMON Airlines has threatened Island Sun with legal action unless the newspaper stops reporting the national carrier’s woes. In a pre-arranged interview,…