BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THERE is no provision under the covid-19 quarantine regulation mandating the police to charge people in quarantine throwing out anything from the quarantine centres. Police Commissioner Mostyn Mangau stated this during his weekly media conference that there…
OPPOSITION leader Matthew Wale is calling on the Prime Minister to take urgent steps to address the allowances of front-line officers in the fight against covid-19, which had been revealed as being unpaid since September 2020. “If the reports are…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO SOLOMON Islands Nursing Association (SINA) proposed peaceful sit -in process planned for today (Friday 30th October) over delays to their covid-19 allowance has been postponed. A statement by the General Secretary, Steven Maitani, on Thursday 29th…
SINU SIG-students urge gov’t to pay up By EDDIE OSIFELO ABOUT 1,055 government-sponsored students at Solomon Islands National University (SINU) are calling on the Ministry of Finance and Treasury to settle their second semester allowances. The students are under pressure…
THE first round of assessment of all applications towards the Economic Stimulus Package under Fisheries and Tourism sectors completed the entire screening process this week. That’s according to the ESP Oversight Committee of the national government. “This means approvals have…
BY PRIESTLEY HABRU A Pacific wide maritime surveillance operation has discovered a few suspicious foreign vessels in Solomon waters as of early this week. The Pacific Islands Forum Agency (FFA) coordinates the surveillance operation with the Royal Australia Air Force…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO SIXTEEN returning female students quarantined at the Guadalcanal Beach Resort were released yesterday after completing all testing protocols. Karl Kuper, Chairman for Institutional Quarantine Facilities (IQF), confirmed that the 17 students, who returned from the Philippines,…
Nurses to stage sit-in protest over unpaid allowance claim BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO NURSES in Honiara and Guadalcanal will stage a sit-in protest starting tomorrow over delays to their covid-19 allowance claims. The action is likely to bring to a…
BY PETER ZOLEVEKE II THE Honiara City Council (HCC) owned Multi-Purpose sporting facility will be fully operational into a new ‘field hospital’ by the end of this week. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare made this known during his nationwide address on…
Players under government’s support BY PETER ZOLEVEKE II ‘SEVENTEEN’ out of the 31 Royals Football Academy players remained back in the United Kingdom, two of which tested positive to covid-19 along with their close contacts – and will be under…
