By EDDIE OSIFELO A LETTER carrying a $22 million request from the controversial Metropolis Mamara Development Ltd to the Government was leaked on social media yesterday. Addressed to Fredrick Kologeto, the Minister for Commerce, Industries, Labour and Immigration, it revealed…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA POLICE are yet to finalise their report into last September’s bomb explosion at Tasahe, west Honiara, that claimed the lives of two expat workers. Australian Trent Lee and Briton Stephen “Luke” Atkinson died when an unexploded ordnance…
By EDDIE OSIFELO SOLOMON Airlines Ltd has denied any conflict of interest by its Chief Executive Officer, Brett Gebers, in promoting another airline in Australia. Former Special Secretary to Prime Minister, Andrew Muaki claimed on social media that the CEO…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI The provincial government of Malaita (MPG) will likely leave the decision to its public to allow or prohibit a Chinese firm to construct the Fiu bridge. The Chinese firm is China Harbour Engineering Company, one with…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA Nearly a year on and the Royal Solomon Islands police force is left biting its nails over the $300,000 evidence cash which went missing under its nose. Even the police commissioner is scratching his head over it.…
A recent four-day court circuit at Taro in Choiseul Province heard 51 cases resulting in the conviction and imprisonment of seven suspects after being found guilty of various charges. The court circuit was held by a Magistrate, Police prosecutors from…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA Police are echoing the call for men and boys to respect women and girls. This follows the latest case in which a 39-year-old man is being charged for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl, whom police…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA A man facing murder charge is without a lawyer, more than a month after being placed in custody. Principal Magistrate Fatimah Taeburi yesterday made direction for the Public Solicitor’s Office to allocate a defence lawyer for the…
Twenty (20) rural farmers and entrepreneurs in Makira/Ulawa Province are now equipped with the relevant knowledge to produce good and quality Copra and Cocoa to meet requirement needed in exporting their products. This was following a Cocoa and Copra Processing…
By EDDIE OSIFELO CHENG’s Construction Limited wants Commissioner of Lands, Allan McNeil to grant the Fixed Term Estate title over the land at Aligator Creek, east Honiara. This after the company paid $450,000 to Levers Solomons Ltd in 2018. According…
