RURU primary and secondary school was flooded after heavy rains last Saturday, in east Fataleka, in Malaita province. Ruru School principal Wesley Rubea told this paper yesterday that the flooding started in the early hours on Saturday morning from a…
THE Waisisi-Wairokai Palm Oil Project is real says the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL). Ground work is ongoing at Wairokai where the nursery is located and transplanting of the first 9,000 seedlings is implemented. MAL made the revelation for…
PREMIER of Malaita Province, Peter Ramohia has lashed out at the slow response of the country’s search and rescue unit following the boat tragedy that claimed lives between the seas of Malaita and Guadalcanal Provinces last week. About Five dead…
LAND owners and resource owners in Small Malaita have been urged to cooperate and open up their land for development in order for the Constituency to develop. The sentiments were echoed by Hon Rick Hou in his key note address…
Dear Editor, ACCORDING to a broadcast on Radio New Zealand International, today, Wednesday, and quoting Sir Bruce Saunders in Honiara, a local 110 year old gentleman, a former Coastwatcher during the battle of Guadalcanal in the Second World War, is…
Dear Editor, THANKS to the very kind and generous donation of a Brisbane based doctor and staff members of Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology Laboratory, also in Brisbane, the NRH has received 400 kilos of much needed equipment, including a bacterial incubator,…
Dear Editor, IT is expected the NRH Accident and Emergency Ward will be relocated to two temporary buildings in September to allow an inspection and assessment of the present A&E Ward for damage caused by last year’s earthquake. The planned…
A day into the event and organisers of 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal are facing heavy criticism for failing to include segments that would promote local war relic collectors. Locals with sizeable genuine collections of World War 2…
A small contingent of Solomon Islands athletes is ready for the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Bahamas in the Caribbean. The country will be competing in the Lawn tennis and athletics in the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, which will be…
AT a recent graduation ceremony held at the Victoria University in Australia, Ms, Irene Paulsen, originally from Buala in Isabel Province was proudly capped as Dr Irene Paulsen, PhD. In the mid-late 1990s, Irene was the Head of Distance Education…