BY BARNABAS MANEBONA NON-attendance by Central Islands Province (CIP) Chief Education Officer (CEO) at the recent National Educational Authorities Conference (NEAC) at Taro Station upsets the province. Whatever maybe the reason for not attending since the CEO could not be…
TRANSPARENCY Solomon Islands welcomes the Deputy Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s comment on our call for the grant to be taxed. We also acknowledge that he has the right to close his ears to the likes of Transparency Solomon Islands. Transparency…
DEAR EDITOR, please allow me a space in your column to express the Wainoni Solidarity movements group’s view with regards to the proposed prospecting. It was very sad and annoying to learn that a foreign company “SOLFISH” was recently granted…
DEAR EDITOR, please publish my views on the recently reported comments by Hon Manasseh Sogavare regarding the MPs terminal grant in parliament. Reading Hon Manasseh Sogavare’s comments in Solomon Star edition 6998, one can’t help but feel aghast at how…
THE other day a next of kin was relaying his recent encounter with a Member of Parliament in a Honiara shop. The MP who shall remain nameless pulled out a cheque book and said to the next-of-kin, “bro look here.…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA YOUTH Ambassadors of the Republic of China (Taiwan) have shared few concepts on cleanliness with the national university of the country (SINU). During an open forum on Thursday last week, the students shared what they describe…
By Gary Hatigeva A legislation aimed to establish the Solomon Islands Maritime Authority (SIMA) Act and other related purposes, in the country has been passed by both the houses of Parliament. The Bill (Act) was passed after it went through…
By Alfred Sasako VOTER registration, particularly on Malaita, may have hit a snag over inadequate allowances with assistant voter registration officers threatening sit-in protest unless the Electoral Commission steps in to resolve the matter. The Electoral Commission is paying $150-a-day…
Plane skis to a U-turn at Taro airport, SolAir blames mechanical fault & bad runway BY BARNABAS MANEBONA SOLOMON Airlines is again under the spotlight as reports surface that a trip to Taro mid last month had ended up in…
By Gary Hatigeva WITH its passage in parliament last week, the government together with the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC), are working to have certain sections of the act enacted to be used in the upcoming 2019 National General Elections…
