Government to apply for covid-19 vaccine today for only 0.25 percent of country’s population BY BEN BILUA THE hype over covid-19 vaccine dies as reality sinks in with the possibility that Solomon Islands may only get enough vaccines for 0.25…
h BY BARNABAS MANEBONA MINISTRY of Finance and Treasury (MoFT) Permanent Secretary (PS) McKinnie Dentana said information that the Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) funding being exhausted is not ‘true’. The PS said that information is basically false and produced by…
UP to 484 teachers have had their salaries affected or ceased in December last year because they have been paid against incorrect pay-points and wrong position numbers. That’s according to the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development. These were…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE Solomon student in the Philippines who had covid, then recovered, and got re-infected with covid-19 has tested negative. The student had covid-19 while in the Philippines. He later recovered and passed tests with negative results…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO AUTHORITIES are reportedly having a hard time contacting the 10 former covid-19 patients who are being sought to undergo a re-test. The 10 had previously recovered and tested negative before being released back to society, but…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA FORMS 3 and 5 school results will be made available Monday next week, while results for form 6 will be ready on Wednesday. Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (MEHRD) revealed this yesterday as parents look…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA A TOTAL of 522 people quarantined have been released from the 821 that arrived during December 2020. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said 299 remained and most of these will be released today and tomorrow. In his weekly…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU POLICE say it will investigate reports that one of its officers at the Henderson police station led a mob which destroyed properties and terrorised a family on January 1, 2020. In a statement yesterday, Police media reports…
BY PETER ZOLEVEKE II THE Solomon Island Football Federation (SIFF) beach soccer and futsal development desk are prioritizing the preparations of the national beach soccer team (Bilikiki) and futsal team (Kurukuru) entering the year 2021. This was according to SIFF…
MID ‘not aware’ of development believed to be related to PM’s residence By EDDIE OSIFELO THE Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID) says it is not aware of the development above Lawson Tama stadium believed to be the construction of the…
