BY ALFRED PAGEPITU The country is expecting more batches of AstraZeneca vaccine in the coming months. These are the remaining 84,000 from the allocated 108,000 which COVAX facility had earmarked for Solomon Islands. This is according to the Prime Minister…
By EDDIE OSIFELO MINISTER of Finance and Treasury, Harry Kuma outlined the overview of the $3.9 billion budget in Parliament yesterday. Delivering the second reading of the 2021 Appropriation Bill 2021, Kuma said the government has planned an overall deficit…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU A date is yet to be set for an election to vote in a new mayor for Honiara city. Former Mayor Wilson Mamae was shown the exit door after a deafening majority vote favoured a motion of…
By EDDIE OSIFELO THE Democratic Coalition for Change Government (DCGA) has approved several revenue measures to bolster additional revenue this year. These include taxing Lekona under the Tobacco Exercise from July 1, imposing plastic tax, raw sugar tax and soft…
POLICE in Honiara are investigating an infanticide incident that occurred at the Holy Cross Cathedral area in Central Honiara area on 5 April 2021. According to an initial report, the body of the female infant was found in the Holy…
POLICE at the Kirakira Police Station in the Makira Ulawa Province are investigating the death of a 70-year-old male person after a ray boat powered by a 40-horsepower engine sunk after leaving Kirakira at 12 mid-day on 2 April 2021…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU China has donated 50,000 doses of the Sinopharm covid-19 vaccine to Solomon Islands. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare echoed this in his nationwide address yesterday. He said Solomon Islands expect the vaccines to arrive in the country on…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA One of four men from Tasman, PNG, has been sent to prison for illegal entry into the country without the prime minister’s exemption. Thomas Poraka was charged with three others for illegal entry under the covid-19 regulations.…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA Bail has been refused for two men alleged of attempted murder. The incident occurred at a village in Northeast Guadalcanal on December 26 last year. Defence yesterday sought bail reasoning that the case is still ongoing and…
ON Thursday the 1st of April, four hatchlings (baby turtles) of Olive Ridleys were released by Daniel Besa, (Guadalcanal Provincial Government Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture), Willie Kokopu (Guadalcanal Provincial government senior Fisheries Officer), Samuel Siovi (Class Six Student of…
