-Loggers move into shipping -Wale urges gov’t to act By EDDIE OSIFELO Loggers are reportedly moving into the shipping industry. And, this is raising eye brows. Opposition Leader, Matthew Wale, raised this concern in parliament last week, urging government to…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Solomon Islands has recorded a new case of covid-19. The overall number of covid-19 cases so far is now at 20. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his nationwide address this yesterday, announced this. “Fellow citizen I am…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Fifty thousand doses of Sinopharm vaccines arrived around midnight Monday from China. The airbus left for China on Saturday and returned around 11.45 pm, Monday night. Present at the Honiara International Airport on Monday night were PRC…
By EDDIE OSIFELO OPPOSITION Leader, Mathew Wale has supported the call for a strong leadership in the country. Wale reiterated this call in support to Minister of Finance and Treasury, Harry Kuma who said “if Solomon Islands are to grow…
By EDDIE OSIFELO INDEPENDENT Leader John Dean Kuku has questioned the two terms ‘Policy Redirection’ and ‘Redirection Policy’ used in the Minister of Finance Speech on the $4 billion budget last week. On page 1 of his budget speech, the…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THE court has issued a warrant of arrest on the School Chaplain for Holau Vocational Christian Academy in West Honiara. This followed the chaplain’s failure to turn up in court yesterday. Police Prosecutor Watson Akwai applied for…
By EDDIE OSIFELO LEADER of Opposition, Mathew Wale says he was impressed with Government stand not to blame our founding fathers for the socio-economic problems the country has faced since independence. Minister of Finance and Treasury, Harry Kuma stated the…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Landowning tribes of Noro town’s water source are pleading to have an audience with the government over outstanding payments. The tribes claim government owes them more than 10-years goodwill payment, stretching back to the Lilo-government. Spokesman for…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA Two Isabel men convicted of stealing 36 water tanks belonging to the Rural Water Supplies and Sanitation Hygiene in 2017 have been sentenced to two years imprisonment. Deputy Chief Magistrate Ricky Iomea, in handing out the verdict…
POLICE are investigating the suspicious death of a female Asian shop owner found lying in a pool of blood in her shop this morning. The shop located opposite of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM) bookshop was cordoned off by…
