BY ALFRED PAGEPITU A total of 112 engineers arrived in the country on Sunday night to help with the construction of the 2023 Pacific Games stadium and other facilities in Honiara. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said all 112 engineers from…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Solomon Islands has recorded a new case of covid-19. The overall number of covid-19 cases so far is now at 20. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his nationwide address this yesterday, announced this. “Fellow citizen I am…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Fifty thousand doses of Sinopharm vaccines arrived around midnight Monday from China. The airbus left for China on Saturday and returned around 11.45 pm, Monday night. Present at the Honiara International Airport on Monday night were PRC…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Landowning tribes of Noro town’s water source are pleading to have an audience with the government over outstanding payments. The tribes claim government owes them more than 10-years goodwill payment, stretching back to the Lilo-government. Spokesman for…
Government reacts to ‘blood clot and AstraZeneca’ findings by continuing vaccination rollout BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Government will continue with its AstraZeneca vaccination rollout programme despite a recent finding linking the vaccine with blood clots. On Thursday last week, the European…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU & IRWIN ANGIKI Blood clots have been concluded by European medicine regulators to be a “very rare side effect” of the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine. However, they urge vaccination to continue. AstraZeneca is the only WHO-approved vaccine available…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Leader of the Opposition, Matthew Wale has slammed DCGA government for not allocating enough fund in the 2021 Budget to address gender-based violence which he says has increased sharply. Wale when debating on the on the 2021…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU THE Landowning tribes of Munda have decided to shut down the Ziata water source, again. This was confirmed to Island Sun by spokesman for GMMV Tribes, Mr Rex Biku, yesterday. Biku said they were expecting the national…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU LEADER of Opposition, Matthew Wale is worried about the state of the National Referral Hospital (NRH) describing it as an institution desperate on a number of fronts. In his speech on the 2021 Appropriation Bill in parliament…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU The coastal community of Nagoibo on Santa Isabel Province in Solomon Islands is one of the most vulnerable places in the country to the impacts of climate change. It is threatened by rising sea levels and experts…