BY ALFRED PAGEPITU THE Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) has activated National Health Emergency Operation Centre (NHEOC) with multi-sectoral coordination with key government law enforcement agencies and health partners to enforce prevention measures to check for the coronavirus.…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO CUSTOMS assures public that it is monitoring all vessels coming into Solomon Islands. SOLOMON Islands Customs and Excise Division (SICED) Comptroller Jim Sutton adds that they are taking measures to ensure that the China coronavirus does…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO PERMANENT Secretary of Health Pauline McNeil is calling on public and media outlets to avoid speculations about the China coronavirus. Mrs McNeil (MHMS) said the health ministry would like to remind public to practice commercial advocacy…
SIEC outlines cost-cutting priority measures for orderly elections in next NGE By Alfred Sasako THE Chairman of the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission and Speaker of the National Parliament, Patteson Oti, has announced a range of measures that could be the…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO CABINET has endorsed $20 million in support of the emergency preparedness and response in terms of the current situation, says Pauline McNeil, Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS). Mrs McNeil said the…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE country is waiting for test results to its first suspected coronavirus cases. Samples taken from the suspects were sent to Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday this week for analysis and are expected to know what the…
Private students top SINU’s unpaid tuition fees By Alfred Sasako THE Solomon Islands National University (SINU) is owed about $48 million in unpaid tuition fees with more than half the amount owed by private students, it was revealed yesterday. Insiders…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO SOLOMON Islands records between 200 and 300 new cancer cases a year, it is reported. Dr Soma, the country’s very own Oncologist serving at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) revealed this alarming statistics yesterday in Honiara…
By EDDIE OSIFELO PARLIAMENT is expected to resume its meeting in March, says clerk David Kusilifu. This follows Parliament session being in suspense after Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare moved the sine die motion last month. Kusilifu said so far there…
By Mike Puia In Tigoa, THE current Renbel provincial government was welcomed with huge arrears when it assumed office in August last year. The first arrears the government battled with totaled $40,000, incurred to the Solomon Islands National Provident Fund…
