By EDDIE OSIFELO POLICE are currently investigating the so-called Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officer, Max, from Tikopia who approached Orion Limited Chan Chee Min with the idea to reconcile with Solomon Forest Association. Commissioner Mostyn Mangau told journalists yesterday that…
By EDDIE OSIFELO HONIARA resident Stephen Maki has provided legal documents yesterday to prove his call for City Mayor Wilson Mamae and Clerk, Rence Sore to resign. The two documents are: 1. Special Investigation Audit Report on the accounts and…
1000-plus cases, RSIPF find difficulty in disposing high profile cases By EDDIE OSIFELO THE two investigation departments with the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) are finding it difficult to dispose high profile cases quickly. This is because there are…
Environment minister Fika denies issuing directive, documents show otherwise By EDDIE OSIFELO ENVIRONMENT minister Titus Fika has denied giving Sunrise Investment Ltd the right to sell tubi trees the Malaysian logger illegally harvested on San Jorge, Isabel. He has also…
By EDDIE OSIFELO MINISTER of Environment, Titus Fika has denied issuing a directive for a logging company to sell tubi logs which the government had previously seized from it. This denial contradicts documents sighted by Island Sun which show Fika…
By EDDIE OSIFELO ATTEMPTS were made by a so-called police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officer and two members of Solomon Forest Association to reconcile with Orion Limited Chan Chee Min last week. This started when Chan Chee Min received a…
By EDDIE OSIFELO A MALAYSIAN logging company that pleaded guilty to the illegal harvesting of tubi trees in Isabel has been given the right to sell those tubi logs. Environment minister Titus Fika made the directive in a letter he…
By EDDIE OSIFELO ASIAN loggers have launched an unprecedented attack on the Foreign Investment Board (FIB) as FIB officials venture out to check on the loggers’ operations across the country. FIB officials were in Makira and Temotu provinces the last…
By EDDIE OSIFELO THE managing director of Orion Limited, Chan Chee Min accuses Solomon Forest Association (SFA) of breaching the Investment Act. Chan alleged that SFA did not get any approval from Foreign Investment Board to operate in Solomon Islands.…
By EDDIE OSIFELO A LOGGER has questioned the connection between President of the Solomon Forest Association (SFA) Jonny Sy and certain key and influential players in the Government. Managing director of Orion Limited, Chan Chee Min raised the issue after…