BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THE woman allegedly involved in a tragic traffic accident which resulted in the death of a 15-year-old girl in Honiara last month will likely enter her plea today at the Honiara Magistrates Court. This is the case…
By Alfred Sasako IT is not always the case that hospitals turn to semi commercial organisations for help. But today times are hard – harder for some than others – including government institutions. And while some remain quiet, others have…
By Gary Hatigeva THE Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) has started rolling out its newly introduced Minimum Standards and Classification for Tourism Accommodation programme, which was adopted in the middle of this year. This was confirmed to Island Sun…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA A resettlement policy is the way to go when dealing with relocation of people. This sentiment was shared by Dr Tammy Tabe, a third generation of the Gilbertese people in Wagina, Choiseul province. During the recent draft…
Central province bounces back in PCDF to get first place BY GEORGINA KEKEA CENTRAL Provincial Government has bounced back from being disqualified and denied funds in 2015/16 to take first position in this year’s assessment of Provincial Capacity Development…
BY GEORGE MANFORD AUKI THE Malaita provincial government has publicly encouraged the province’s youths to utilise their skills to build and progress Malaita. Malaita province desk-officer Ms Clera Rikimani urged youths during the closing of a two-week frontload training under…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA WORK on the undersea cable is progressing well. Currently a marine survey is being done by the EGS group of Companies to map out the precise route for the undersea cable from Australia to Papua New Guinea…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA PRIME Minister Rick Hou has joined the Australian High Commissioner, His Excellency, Roderick Brazier to visit the ship tasked to carry out marine survey for the Coral Sea project. On Saturday, the marine vessel Northern Endeavour stopped…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA IN TULAGHI CENTRAL Islands Province (CIP) being disqualified from the PCDF funding in 2017 resulted in Tulaghi’s incomplete Shopping complex now heavily debated. To add, with the decreased allocation given by the National Government to all Provincial…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE The education ministry has achieved success in 2017 under it’s National Education Action Plan (NEAP) 2017-2020 endeavours, however they are also some challenges still need addressing. According to the Ministry of Education and Humans Resources Development…
