BY BARNABAS MANEBONA SMOKING residents at Tulaghi are confirmed to move into a new plot of land allocated as work for a new domestic wharf there is soon to commence within July-August. The Premier of Central Islands Province (CIP) Hon…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI Auki FIVE “severe mental disorder” or mentally ill cases have been reported at Kilu’ufi Mental Unit for the first quarter of the year. Doctor in-charge of the mental unit, Dr Rex Maukera revealed this during an interview…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THE committal papers regarding the three separate bank armed robbery cases will be made on April 4. This is after the prosecution tendered the committal papers to the court yesterday. The incident occurred in 2015 and 2016…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA SOLOMON Islands will be able to improve its access to climate change finance now that a climate change and disaster risk finance assessment report has been produced. Over the years, priority for the Solomon Islands government is…
By Gary Haitgeva FROM the Development Planning and Aid Coordination view point, the 2018 Budget has much on the line for the implementation of government key policies including the development budget and is as the Finance Minister described it to…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA A suspended police superintendent has pleaded guilty to five charges of traffic related offences before the Principal Magistrate Augustine Aulanga on Tuesday. The police superintendent was charged in relation to a vehicle accident which occurred on March…
By Alfred Sasako AN engineering firm in Honiara is allegedly holding a contractor to ransom over a $6 million-plus tourism project in Gizo, Western province. And the contractor was told last week that he would have to complete the project…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO WESTERN province Assembly is expecting to approve its budget of $32.9 million today. Provincial finance minister Mr Lester Sa’omasi says 61 percent of it is allocated for recurrent programmes and 39 percent will be for capital…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE THE standard of quality room service in the country’s tourism outlets is set to be improved with an initiative by the ministry of culture and tourism (MCT). Solomon Islands’ newly approved and introduced Tourism Accommodation Minimum…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THE case against the former permanent secretary for Ministry of Infrastructure Development is listed for closing submission today. Trial into the case has been completed and is in its closing stage. Henry Aife Murray and his wife…
