Provincial and HCC ballots first following crucial verification step: SIEC BY IRWIN ANGIKI Counting of the casted ballots of yesterday’s successful joint elections begins today. After close of elections yesterday at 4pm, polling officials sealed the ballot boxes in front…
BY IRWIN ANGIKI The Electoral Commission has refuted as misleading rumours that the ballot paper must be signed with a red-coloured pen. Speaking to Island Sun yesterday evening, Ednal Palmer of the SIEC Communications team said, “the electoral law does…
BY IRWIN ANGIKI The Ownership, Unity, Responsibility (OUR) Party has accused the Electoral Commission (SIEC) of being ‘not independent and impartial’. OUR party also insinuated Australia and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Strengthening the Electoral Cycle in the Solomon…
BY IRWIN ANGIKI The significance of Central Honiara constituency has been underscored by SIPRA candidate Gordon Darcy Lilo as the ‘New York’ of the country. Mr Lilo, president of Solomon Islands Party for Rural Advancement (SIPRA) coined this phrase when…
BY IRWIN ANGIKI The Solomon Islands Party for Rural Advancement (SIPRA) is promising to do away with amputations due to non-communicable diseases (NCD). SIPRA President Gordon Darcy Lilo says there are new technologies available today which the Solomon Islands can…
BY IRWIN ANGIKI The office of the Prime Minister has accused the CARE coalition of being illegal, ahead of the national general elections. The Coalition for Accountability Reform and Empowerment (CARE) has brushed aside this claim as a non-issue, “one…
-Choiseul gov’t and landowning tribe decry operations by company without provincial business licence -Company says its actions based on ‘verbal agreement’ BY IRWIN ANGIKI A logging company has landed and is operating in South Choiseul without any business licence from…
BY IRWIN ANGIKI THE Kokonut Pacific (KPSI) has added its voice to the resounding call for government to repair the roads on Malaita. In a media statement yesterday, Managing Director of KPSI described the state of roads on Malaita as…
BY IRWIN ANGIKI There needs to be more representation of Pacific island countries and territories (PICT) at the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), a recent survey has found. The IPCC is the scientific body which advises the United Nations…
BY IRWIN ANGIKI A Solomon Islands scholar was given a rare and highly prestigious opportunity last week. PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, Priestley Habru, was selected to present the University’s vote of thanks at a high-level Heads of…