BY ALFRED PAGEPITU THE people of Western Province have celebrated their 37th Second Appointed Day with pride. It was celebrated with the theme “Navigating and persisting through unprecedented challenges”, at Noro, Township in Western Province, yesterday. Guest of honour Prime…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU PRIME minister Manasseh Sogavare has elaborated in parliament his decision, backed by cabinet, to ban facebook. “Facebook needs to be suspended so that relevant regulations can be brought to Parliament to regulate the use of facebook,” he…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU THE 2019 Census Provisional count recorded an increase of 169, 930, a 30.8 percent increase to the 2009 Census. The increase represents an average annual growth rate of 2.7 percent for the period from 2009 to 2019.…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU PRE-POLLING for certain citizens who will not be available for voting on Wednesday this week is on today. One pre-poll station will be made available to each constituency. Pre-polling for Central Honiara will be held at the…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU FORMER Beach soccer sensation and Honiara Titans veteran James Naka has made a genuine call to the responsible authorities to build proper standard Beach Soccer facility. Speaking exclusively to SunSPORTS the one time World ranked sixth player…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU THE National Government has set plans to improve the future development of Beach Soccer in the country by expanding programs throughout the provinces. This follows the completion of the National Invitational Beach Soccer Championship over the weekend.…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) has plans to step up its precautionary measures to ensure public are protected from risks of covid-19 should there be any potential outbreak. They are planning to improve Honiara-base…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU HAVE you witnessed changes in the environment in your community? Would you like to share your observations to create evidence-based science and tackle climate change in Solomon Islands? Head to Facebook and join the “Solomon Islands: Environment”…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU A breach at the high-risk quarantine station at one of the hotels in Honiara’s CBD, where one covid-19 case was detected, took place yesterday. A member of public handed over a package to a person in quarantine…
Two results return negative. Country awaits two more BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GOOD news for the country as two results returned negative on Wednesday 1st April, summing up three negatives out of the latest five suspects. The country is waiting on…