Solo boys finish top
Will play Tahiti in second semi on Thursday BY ROMULUS HUTA THE national under-19 soccer boys have made a clean sweep in their Group B campaign as they claimed a 1-0 win over neighbours Vanuatu in their third match of…
August 14, 2018
Team Solomons arrive safely in Mexico ahead of comp
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA FOUR Science Technology Engineering Mathematic (STEM) students of the Woodford International School have landed safely in Mexico yesterday for the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge. The WIS students arrived have arrived in advance purposely to explore and…
The good and the bad of royalty
BY GEORGINA KEKEA BELAHA School in Central Guadalcanal is located in one of the lucrative spot of royalty. In Guadalcanal, people from Central Guadalcanal are said to be one of the prime beneficiaries of monies from operations through mining, logging,…
Paramount Chief Keku lauds Catholic women
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO PARAMOUNT Chief Charles Keku from Tandai house of chiefs has welcomed all Catholic women to the St Mary’s Tanagai Parish to celebrate the assumption of the Blessed Mary. Mr Keku expressed his welcome statement yesterday at…
Illegal betel-nut vending continues
By Ezekiel Talatau IT’S been two weeks since awareness by Youth@work and Friends Of The City, supporting the litter ordinance, enforced by the Honiara city council (HCC). Today, as you walking through the streets of Honiara, the Illegal vendors street…
Taiwan health expert promote healthy diet and lifestyle in Visale School
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA KAOHSIUNG Medical University Hospital of the Republic of China (Taiwan) has brought new concepts to promote healthy diet and lifestyle to Visale School last week. The visit to Visale School in west Guadalcanal is part of…
Solomon Sheet Steel supports NRH with medical ward extension
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA THE Solomon Sheet Steel limited has funded $1.2million towards the National Referral Hospital’s medical ward extension which is currently under construction. Walk past the NRH corridor towards, Medical ward, there is a building construction meant for…
Standing by the Solomon Islands in the past, today and tomorrow.
DEAR EDITOR, in recent days the Prime Minister, the Hon. Rick Hou, reportedly said the Solomon Islands had been in the wilderness for the past forty years. Of course he was speaking metaphorically and not literally of the past for,…
Transparent and tangible use of CDF Funds in bettering rural development
DEAR EDITOR, an article published in the Island Sun newspaper in recent weeks cited that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had expressed concern over the “lack of transparency” around the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). A team from the IMF had…
Snake crawls out of the grass unscratched for Fairtrade Company Limited
MANAGING Director of Fairtrade Company Limited responds to the headline in the Island Sun on Monday titled “snake in the grass” by Alfred Sasako. He says firstly that Mr Sasako should seek legal advice and his facts straight before writing…