BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO UP to 127 young men and women joined the nursing service yesterday in a ceremony held to confer their status as “registered nurses”. This new lot are expected to further boost the country’s human resource capacity…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO NEWLY registered nurses are reminded to not spread false and misleading information about the COVID-19 pandemic. National Head of Nursing Michael Larui made the reminder to the 127 new nurses who officially joined the nursing service…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO PRIME Minister Manasseh Sogavare has expressed ‘extreme’ disappointment at health workers who are reportedly promoting misinformation on covid-19 vaccines. Mr Sogavare in his national address on Monday this week said a small group of health workers…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE people of Temotu are calling on the national government to provide the province with a ship. Premier Clay Forau made this call, saying the lack of a ship affects almost all aspects of development in…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO TEMOTU province is open for both local and international investors with the focus to broaden the base of its economy, says the Premier Clay Forau. Forau uttered this sentiment at the recent Temotu province second appointed…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO Premier Clay Forau said his government is looking at modernising Temotu Province. Forau echoed this during the Temotu Province Second Appointed celebration held in Lata. He said based on the Temotu Provincial government policy intention they…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE Seif Ples Gender Based Violence (GBV) crisis accommodation and medical clinic at Rove is temporarily closed, says SAFENET. SAFENET this week advised general public that Seif Ples centre will be temporarily closed until Saturday, June…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO Government has committed $12.6millon towards the Computer Tomography (CT) scan project to foot the expenses under its budget allocation for 2021, says Ministry of Health and Medical Services. Ministry of health in a statement yesterday said…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO INDIVIDUALS in Honiara due for their second dose of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are being urged to get jabbed at the Central Field Hospital. Pauline McNeil, permanent secretary to Ministry of Health and Medical Services, made this…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THIRTEEN thousand doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines offered by the government of Australia arrived in the country on Friday last week. The AstraZeneca doses were manufactured in Australia. According to Pauline McNeil, permanent secretary to Ministry…