WHEN speaking at a high-level round table meeting on a NCD policy road map this week in Honiara, Prime Minister Rick Hou said there was no doubt NCDs pose the single biggest threat to the future development aspirations of the…
THE Island Sun newspaper has reported that a National Water and Climate Change Forum is underway in Honiara with a view to focusing on the resilience of water for domestic use in the face of climate change. The Forum occurs…
DEAR EDITOR, PLEASE allow me space in your daily newspaper to express my grave concern regarding a recent public Timber Rights Hearing that was held in Sa’a community on the 20th November 2018. At the outset I wish to say…
By Gary Hatigeva AMENDMENTS made to reduce powers bestowed on the Minister of Finance and Treasury over the operations of the re-establishment of the Development Bank of Solomon Islands (DBSI) was highly welcomed as its Act made it through Parliament…
TWO fisheries specialist from Guadalcanal are in Guangdong Province in the People’s Republic of China for three weeks of specialized training in aquaculture. In what was described as groundbreaking for the Guadalcanal-Guangdong relationship, Willie Kokopu and Francis Ratu are the…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO WESTERN Provincial government intends to progress its education sector by providing accessible education and learning facilities for its young people in Western Province. Hon Isaac Vula Tatapu, MPA for Ward three, Simbo and Provincial Minister for…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA NINE of the ten most obese countries in the world are from the Pacific with Solomon Islands is rapidly heading toward filling the 10th position. Fifteen of the top 20 countries with the highest prevalence of diabetes…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI TEACHERS need to understand the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Currently a workshop conducted by SINTA is being held in Auki, with General Secretary of SINTA, Robert Lafisi saying teachers need to understand SDGs as they are…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE useful skills and knowledge gained by the 15 Correctional Service officers of the CSSI will now able to assist the institution in strategically addressing different issues within the organisation. The officers have graduated with diploma…
By Mike Puia LOCAL patient who voluntarily left the National Referral Hospital (NRH) described the country’s national hospital in Honiara as a ‘death row’. Civil society advocator, Ismael Nori, has been in admission at the NRH for months. Nori decided…
