Government’s expensive rental deal during covid-19 questioned By EDDIE OSIFELO An excessive tenancy agreement signed recently between the owner of the Melanesian Haus and the Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID) is being questioned. The office rental deal is said to…
By EDDIE OSIFELO SOLOMON Airlines has engaged its sacked former Chief Executive Officer, Ron Sumsum to train two local pilots Steve Aumanu Junior and Alex Takola to handle the new Twin Otter. A senior officer in the Airlines confirmed this…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU A sub-contractor linked with a logging company blacklisted for its history of non-compliance with the business licence of the Central Province has been asked to leave its operations in the Mboli passage on Ngella. Logging company, Gulf…
BANANAS are a traditional food crop that must not be ignored in the Government’s efforts to develop agriculture. That’s according to Makira-Ulawa premier Julian Maka’a. Speaking in provincial capital Kirakira, Makaa says the Agriculture Sector which is normally referred to…
MINISTRY of Health yesterday admitted the worsening COVID-19 situation in India would delay delivery of the second consignment of vaccines into the country. The ministry was responding to concerns Opposition leader Mathew Wale raised about the procurement of vaccines due…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU THERE have been sightings of dead fish washing up along the shorelines of Haleta and Tulagi in the Central Islands Province. Villagers in the area are shocked to find dead fish washed ashore since last week. A…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI MAI-MAASINA Green Belt (MMGB) has thanked the Malaita provincial government for helping promote green development in the province. Malaita Alliance for Rural Advancement (MARA) government is one of MMGB’s regulatory partners. Solomon Islands Rangers-General Secretary and…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO JOURNALISTS in the country have played an essential role of information dissemination in keeping the public informed since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. This was echoed by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare at the World Press Freedom…
WORK on the multimillion dollars Pacific Games stadium official started yesterday. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who was instrumental in bringing the Games here during the bidding process in 2016, was at hand yesterday to officiate in the ground-breaking ceremony. China…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA A programme that will support Isabel’s women and girls’ rights to participation in community-based peacebuilding process and dialogue was launched yesterday. Minister of Traditional Governance, Peace and Ecclesiastical Affairs Samuel Manetoali, in launching the programme, said the…
