BY LYNTON AARON FILIA PREMIER for Makira province is urging the Solomon Islands Government to increase its budget allocation for Early Childhood Development and Primary Health Care in Solomon Islands. Premier Stanley Siapu made the call to SIG during the…
BY GEORGE MANFORD AUKI ON Tuesday this week the Australian government handed over two classroom buildings, one ablution block and four (4) rotamould water tanks to Alota’a primary school in a short handing over ceremony in Auki. The building including…
BY GEORGE MANFORD AUKI ALOTA’A school are full of gratitude with the Australian government for their newly received school buildings. Teachers, students and parents of Alota’a school witnessed the official handing over of the three new buildings for Alota’a primary…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA SOLOMON Islands Maritime safety Administration (SIMSA) clarifies that they have not specifically disqualified Ngella’s vessel through its Act or Regulations. In fact, they are still waiting for the famous ‘Vaka Motor’ shipowner to go forward and have…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA ABOUT 35 participants from organisations working in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Solomon Islands came together for a three-day Gender and WASH workshop that started in Honiara on October 30. This workshop is jointly…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA A National Protection Committee was launched last night in Honiara. Established under arrangements from the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), the National Protection Committee is to localize disaster response and coordination. Implemented by the Ministry of Women,…
BY ELLISON VAHI THE Woodford International School is helping communities flourish through art. In a social media statement, WIS said the Dreamcast Theatre and Woodford International School entered into a lease agreement for the use of HAMs Theatre building for…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO YOUNG women leaders from Pacific nations and across Bougainville who have attended the recent Bougainville Young women leaders meeting have been encouraged to ‘persist in doing good deeds to become great leaders’. Executive Director for Young…
A primary school of perseverance By Alfred Sasako WHEN Gilo Primary School headmaster, Romano Pesira, wrote to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) recently, seeking help for the school, no one expected a timely response. Mr Pesira asked CCECC, one…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE AN eight-member Taiwan Acrobatic Troupe from National Taiwan College of Performing Arts arrived in the country yesterday afternoon. In an interview with Island Sun, Wang, Hsueh-Yen, team leader and Director Secretary of the college said they…
