BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI A total of 34 communities in five wards in Malaita province have launched and enforced their community bylaws as are now benefiting from them. The launching of these community bylaws came as a result of great…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI Malaita provincial government will short-list candidates for its community liaisons officer (CLO) programme starting next week. This will be done through the Community Governance Grievance Management Project (CGGMP). Coordinator for CGGMP in Malaita province, Mr Emmanuel…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI Auki CHINA Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) will never be accepted in Malaita. That’s the decision the provincial executive reached yesterday after CHEC was recently announced as the winning bidder to build Fiu Bridge, near provincial capital Auki.…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI The provincial government of Malaita (MPG) will likely leave the decision to its public to allow or prohibit a Chinese firm to construct the Fiu bridge. The Chinese firm is China Harbour Engineering Company, one with…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI LEADERS in parts of Fataleka and Baegu regions in Malaita province have questioned the proposed Taelo/Ata’a road in North Malaita. In a statement from PARU office, the leaders raised the question in show of their solidarity…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI MALAITA provincial Public Accounts Committee (PAC) recent courtesy visit and dialogue with the national PAC is for the interest and benefit of Malaita province. Chairman of the Malaita provincial PAC, Martin Fini made the statement in…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI Female students from schools in Auki marked the annual International Girls in ICT Day in Auki yesterday. The one-day programme was facilitated by Women in IT Solomon Islands (WITSI) under Solomon Islands IT Society and funded…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI MAI-MAASINA Green Belt (MMGB) has thanked the Malaita provincial government for helping promote green development in the province. Malaita Alliance for Rural Advancement (MARA) government is one of MMGB’s regulatory partners. Solomon Islands Rangers-General Secretary and…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI VEHICLE owners on Malaita are losing huge amounts of money on fees charged for road maintenance conducted by individuals and communities living along the north and east roads from Auki. The practice started a few months…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI Stocks of illegally harvested beche-de-mer are reportedly piled in the Luaniua community of the Malaita Outer Islands’ Ontong Java circle. Sightings of the piles and open practising of illegal harvesting are contained in a report by…