Gov’t urged to terminate minister for lying in public GOVERNMENT has been urged to sack Environment minister Titus Fika for lying in public. Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) made the call yesterday after the Island Sun exposed Fika’s dishonest in a…
Environment minister Fika denies issuing directive, documents show otherwise By EDDIE OSIFELO ENVIRONMENT minister Titus Fika has denied giving Sunrise Investment Ltd the right to sell tubi trees the Malaysian logger illegally harvested on San Jorge, Isabel. He has also…
High tides, piped-water, internet and waterfall MOMENTS turned into memories are significant because they last in our minds. According to Willa Cather, an American novelist known for her novels concerning frontier life on the Great Plains, “some memories are realities”.…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU WHILE Honiara is scraping hard with fish prices in its central market, Gizo is reportedly enjoying ridiculously low prices for fish. Heavy rains and bad weather is reportedly making fishermen spiking their prices high in Honiara, citing…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA GOVERNMENT is looking into the feasibility of implementing a student loans scheme and how it could ‘co-exist’ with the country’s current scholarships program to maximise benefits. Last week Wednesday, Solomon Islands Tertiary Education and Skills Authority (SITESA)…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE country now has three covid-19 cases; one new one and two reactivated cases. The new one is a returning student from the Philippines, and the two reactivated cases are persons who had returned from the…
By EDDIE OSIFELO MINISTER of Environment, Titus Fika has denied issuing a directive for a logging company to sell tubi logs which the government had previously seized from it. This denial contradicts documents sighted by Island Sun which show Fika…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO COVAX Facility has confirmed the allocation of a suggestive number of 108,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Solomon Islands despite missing out on Pfizer vaccines. This was confirmed by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare yesterday in…
Maritime authority detains ship for spilling oil at Graciosa Bay BY BEN BILUA MARITIME authorities have detained a foreign log-ship which had spilled oil in Graciosa Bay waters, Temotu province. The vessel was at the Bay to pick up logs…
