By Derek Mane ON the morning of July 7, 1978, Solomon Islanders in various locations throughout the country lower the Union Jack and raised the Solomon Islands flag. A birth of a new nation, 40 years later to be ravaged…
By Mike Puia THE Pacific Community (SPC) is currently running a leadership course for six local female mid-level public servants. Four of them come from the Ministry of Development Planning and Aid Coordination (MDPAC), Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA SOLOMON Water has labelled the front page article in the Island Sun newspaper by Mr Alfred Sasako on Wednesday’s headlined ‘New Water Fee’ as misleading. The article claimed that thousands of Solomon Water’s customers have been dealt…
BY GEORGE MANFORD AUKI FARMERS in Malaita province are concerned at the threat the continuing bad weather is posing on their farms. A local vegetable farmer in central Kwara’ae Mrs Ellen Hitala, is one such farmer, who believes that the…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA PRIME Minister Rick Hou has revealed to Business houses that government is aware of the lack of medicines in the National Referral Hospital (NRH) and has classified it as critical. When questioned by a member of the…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA THE Leadership Code Commission (LCC) is now carrying out enforcement against public servants who have not submitted their completed statements of declaration to the Commission before its due date. Early this year, LCC had issued out a…
A 23-year-old male has been arrested for the alleged rape of a 20-year-old girl in the Lungga area in East Honiara on July 9, 2018. Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Guadalcanal province Superintendent Nixon Manetoga says, “My officers attended to…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA A Minister of the Crown has been criticised for allegedly abusing security guards over parking space at the Anthony Saru complex. In a ‘Letter to the Editor’ article, an El-ten Jama says on Monday morning, the Minister…
By Alfred Sasako AS the veil of success of the two-week Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival (MACFEST) lifted, undercurrents of dissatisfaction by some local artists have begun to emerge. And one member of the Arts Association is calling on authorities…
THE Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) commends the public, participating countries and the organisers for a peaceful 6th Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival (MACFest) which ended in Honiara on Tuesday night. More than 200 police officers from Honiara City…
