TREATING young girls with care and patience are skills Lyn Subai learnt as a mentor of the Girls Rise Up! project in Solomon Islands. Lyn is one of many trained community mentors in the Girls Rise Up! project, led by…
THE Governments and Japan yesterday signed Exchange of Notes to formalise a multi-million dollar loan arrangement to support the Government’s efforts against COVID-19. The loan totaling over $190 million targets promoting economic stabilization and developmental responses against the pandemic. Called…
GOLD Ridge Mining Limited (GRML) donated 15,000 facial masks and 1008 of 75 percent alcohol hand sanitisers to the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) National Medical Store yesterday to support efforts against covid-19. In his brief remarks at…
GOV’T needs to do more to help ease school fee pressure: Wale The Leader of Opposition, Mr Matthew Wale, has called on the government to take steps to alleviate the burden of school fees on fee-payers for all levels of…
UP to 484 teachers have had their salaries affected or ceased in December last year because they have been paid against incorrect pay-points and wrong position numbers. That’s according to the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development. These were…
AFTER issuing a Stop Notice to Sino Capital to stop logging in the Aola ward area of Guadalcanal Province weeks ago, the Guadalcanal Provincial Executive lead by premier Francis Sade decided to file a High Court case to seek injunction…
POLICE have arrested and charged three foreigners for prohibition of entry of non-citizens under the SOPE regulation. Commissioner of Police Mostyn Mangau says the three foreigners had entered travelling in two separate yachts together earlier this month and were seen…
THE Leader of Opposition, Matthew Wale, has labelled the Sino Capital logging company saga a can of worms, now that the lid has been opened, there is no telling what worms will crawl out. Mr Wale has described the explanation…
Solomon Islands government receives World Bank support for covid-19 THE Ministry of Finance and Treasury (MOFT), the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) and the World Bank (WB) have concluded negotiations on a WB funded project worth USD 5…
HUNDREDS of applications for the Government’s Economic Stimulus Package have been approved by the ESP Committe. A statement from the Committee emphasised that approval for piggery projects for the provinces and cocoa farmers were made last week. Specifically, more than…