BY BEN BILUA Gizo EXPERTS say reviving traditional knowledge can complement resilience of the Pacific region. Research carried out by Siosinamele Lui of Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) on tradition knowledge found that countries in the Pacific…
SOLOMON Islands is scheduled to graduate from the category of Least Developed Country (LDC) by 2024. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare highlighted during his 43rd Independence Address on Wednesday this week. The Prime Minister said while LDC graduation has potential benefits…
Man running from police mows down crowd killing 5 BY JARED KOLI Five people are dead and three others injured after they were run over by a person being chased by police at the old Tenaru bridge, east of Honiara.…
BY BEN BILUA GIZO GIZO residents took time out to celebrate the country’s 43rd Independence Day on Wednesday at the John F Kennedy stadium. The event was organised by a newly established church association which represents all denominations in Gizo…
By EDDIE OSIFELO WIN Win mining company Ltd is demanding the outspoken landowner of Turarana, Joel Jackson, to refrain from going to the media and to apologise to the company. In a letter issued by the company’s lawyer Whitlam Togamae…
By Brian Lezutuni Australians, Pacifika people living in Australia, are being forced to pay as much as SBD $2107 ($350 AUD) for a kilogram of impure kava from black market sales of the product. With reduced international travel due to…
By EDDIE OSIFELO MINING company, Win Win Investment Ltd is preparing to meet with the Turarana Landowners Taskforce and other leaders at the Henderson Police Post conference room from 10am to 12 noon today. This is despite the company not…
ISRAEL’S recently elected Prime Minister Naftali Benet and Foreign Affairs minister Yair Lapid yesterday sent their best wishes as the country marked its 43rd independence anniversary. “We, in Israel, wish and pray for the prosperity, resilience and success of all…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA MEMBERS of the public are raising concern over the delay of police investigation into the missing one-link 300k exhibition money. A resident George Lei said he supports call made by Transparency Solomon Islands for police to speed…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA CHIEF Justice Sir Albert Palmer has sentenced a man to 10 years imprisonment for having sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 15 years. Sir Albert in his sentencing on Tuesday this week, reiterated that…
