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Regional basketball boss here next week

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BY ROMULUS HUTA

A high rank official from the regional basketball governing body will arrive in Honiara next week.

The official, David Crocker who is the Regional Director for Federation of International Basketball Association (FIBA) Oceania will be here to meet with members of the Solomon Islands Basketball Federation (SIBF) interim executive.

During the meeting, Crocker will help SIBF re-establish itself as a credible sporting organisation and also aid them to work on moving their development aspirations forward.

SIBF interim General Secretary Uriel Matanani told SunSPORTS yesterday that the planned visit by Crocker is crucial.

“During the visit, we will discuss important matters pertaining to moving basketball forward in Solomon Islands,” he said.

SunSPORTS understand that the national basketball governing body is currently operating under an interim committee since December last year upon a request by the FIBA Oceania.

This follows the ousting of former president Brian Pongotapu and his executive last November requesting them to step aside and let an interim committee take over or else face suspensions.

Over the past five months, FIBA Oceania has been working closely with the interim committee to revitalise SIBF.

According to Matanani, an election for the new SIBF office bearers will also be held during the one-day visit of the regional director.

School league to be competitive this year, says Temoa

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BY ROMULUS HUTA

THE 2018 Samlimsan School Hockey League will be a competitive one, according to Solomon Islands Hockey Federation (SIHF) Development Officer Allen Temoa.

Temoa made the remarks after watching how the first two matches of the 2018 season rolled out yesterday at the King George Sixth Cricket Pitch in Honiara.

Temoa explained that the two matches played during the opening day displayed competitive intensities and admitted coming out satisfied by the end of the day.

The two opening matches featured King George Sixth School and Don Bosco taking on each other across both the girls and boys divisions.

King George came out victorious recording a 2-1 win in the girls division and another 3-2 winning margin in the boys’ match.

“Don Bosco improved a lot in their matches today (8th May).

“They managed to hold KGVI in the first half of the boys’ match but the second half turned out unfortunate for them and they lost it.

“Of course I’m pretty satisfied with how the first matches turned out. Supporters and fans all came out cheering for their teams.

“I think this is positive sign going forward,” Temoa expressed.

The school hockey league continues today (9th May)

Big win for Koloale

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Elliot Ragomo

Marist unties tough Real Kakamora side

By Taromane Martin

Elliot Ragomo of Marist Futsal Club controls the ball against Real Kakamora. Marist Fc beat Real Kakamora Fc 4-2 (photo by Danny Kakadi).

KOLOALE futsal team posted a huge win in the 2018 Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) national futsal League yesterday hammering Henderson Eels 14-1 at the Multipurpose Hall yesterday.

Following their 9-2 loss to competition leaders Futsal Solympics, Tuesday last week, the Victor Waia Eels side fell apart in the first half, Albert Wetney, Lenson Bisili both finding the target to grab a comfortable lead.

Things fell apart again in the second half, Albert Wetney too slippery for the Eels defence as the Advanced Technology-sponsored side suffered yet again, another harrowing defeat.

“So far I’m pleased with the team’s progress. The boys I think have learnt a lot from our two matches we lost,” Koloale Team Captain Lenson Bisili told SunSPORTS after their win.

“I would like to thank all the boys for their hard work and team effort today. However, our transition during games is still a problem for us.

“It will need some polishing and every time we are working on improving it,” Bisili said.

Yesterday’s huge win over Henderson Eels FC sees Koloale FC with nine points after five matches played while Eels are yet to collect a single point.

Meanwhile, Marist futsal team continued their winning streak undoing a determined Real Kakamora side 4-2 yesterday.

Steven Toata and Braddley S put Real Kakamora FC back in the game after Alvin Ray put Marist in front with a ferocious strike.

Captain Elliot Ragomo doubled the lead for Marist and added their fourth before Ray hammered the final nail to seal their fourth win in the competition.

2017 Wantok Futsal Cup champions G-Camp FC also bagged their fourth win yesterday after stealing a 6-5 win from KOSSA FC in a nail biting match.

G-Camp had to fight back from two goals down for the victory which sees them in second place with 12 points after five matches.

Charlie Otainao found the back of the net twice for KOSSA in the first half to lead 2-0 at the break but saw Eddie Huniehu responding twice in the second half to level the scores.

Huniehu grabbed the lead for G-Camp two minutes later but saw Junior Kasute’e tying the scores for KOSSA.

A goal each from Charles Kalola and Otainoa for KOSSA followed suit to keep their search for a second win alive but saw Wilson Taloga and Huniehu adding three more goals to steal the win.

Schools in south Malaita benefit from LEAP

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School teachers during LEAP workshop at Afio.

BY SAMIE WAIKORI

Auki

School teachers during LEAP workshop at Afio.

FOUR primary schools in the southern region of Malaita province recently benefited from Leaders Education Authorities Project (LEAP).

The schools include Tawairoi, Maka, Takaito and Rokera, which had been categorised under the LEAP southern cluster within Malaita province.

School Leadership Mentor (SLM) under LEAP, Mr Austin Aebata (who is responsible for Southern and Central clusters) said his team had recently conducted a LEAP introductory visit to schools, followed by a ‘sense making’ workshop.

He said the workshop gathered teachers and school leaders of the four schools at the southern sub-station of Afio where workshop took the topic of ‘sense making’ for teachers and school improvement growth goal setting for school leaders and head-teachers.

Aebata said during the sense-making workshop, the first day of the two-day workshop, teachers learnt of data gathered by MEHRD on the current level of students’ performances in the country.

He said they also learnt the pattern of teachers’ practices shown in the data to have been connected to students’ performances in terms of learning literacy.

Aebata said it is very important for teachers to understand from the data that the current national trend of students’ performance especially on literacy is going down.

“So the training is purposely to help teachers to draw-up plans that will help improve their student’s learning in terms of literacy,” he said.

Aebata continued that on the second day the workshop was for school leadership teams which comprised of school chairman, head-teacher, deputy and senior.

He said during the workshop the team was trained on school improvement planning, which goes along with the development of growth goal setting for schools.

“The purpose of that is to ensure school leadership team to develop planning to grow a goal setting targeting at practice of improving students’ literacy,” Aebata said.

He said MEHRD and LEAP are partners in the programme as they look at improving the level of student’s literacy in the country.

Aebata said the LEAP is headed by USP, University of Auckland and FFM in link with MEHRD and funded by New Zealands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).

Borehole nears completion

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BY SAMIE WAIKORI

Auki

WORK on the water project for Aligegeo provincial secondary school is nearing completion.

The school is bound to say farewell to water problems, which it had been suffering since its establishment in 1948.

Malaita Provincial Chief Health Inspector who is also responsible for the project, Ms Gloria Siwainao said work on the piping phase of the project is progressing as expected, and that it is anticipated to complete by mid-May.

She said the bore-hole has been drilled including the installment of the tank as work is now on the reticulation pipe within the school compound.

“The main piping already completed as joining of piping to staff houses and to other school facilities is awaiting the installment of the water pump in the bore-hole.

“To do the work we expect an engineer from Caritas Australia this week to do the installment of the water pump.

“So by installing the pump it’s going towards the final phases of the project where the school will then receive water,” Siwainao said.

She said extension of piping to Fanualama Catholic community and staff houses, which are on the other side of the road, is the remaining task under the project.

Siwainao said she had recently sought assistance from the Solomon Water.

“I’m not yet receiving feedback from Solomon Water, but with the technicality to do piping across the road, we look upon them since they have resource to properly carry-out the work,” she said.

Red Cross International Day celebrated in Auki

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BY SAMIE WAIKORI

Auki

STAFF and volunteers of the Red Cross office in Auki joined the rest of the world to celebrate Red Cross International Day yesterday.

Mr Rex Leafasia from the Branch Office of Red Cross Auki said yesterday that every May 8 the Red Cross international day is marked throughout the world.

“So to honour the day, I talk with my Red Cross volunteers and arranged to come together to mark the day.

“We spend times with families and friends and enjoy the day with food,” he said.

The World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is an annual celebration of the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

World Red Cross Red Crescent Day is celebrated on May 8 each year.

This date is the anniversary of the birth of Henry Dunant, the founder of the movement, who was born May 8, 1828.

Reconciliation at Angava Village

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BY BARNABAS MANEBONA

Angava Community at Northwest Choiseul have reconciled with the Peace Task Force team of Hon Connelly Sadakabatu being said to be one of the communities in a series reconciling.

The reconciliation is part of paving a way for solidarity between Angava Community and the MP for Northwest Choiseul Constituency.

Chief Jason Padavolomo of Angava Community said “the reconciliation ceremony is a sign of hope for us to amend our negative views and come back to put our hands together to support our MP”.

According to Mr Nerio Ulemiki the media coordinator for Christ the King Parish at Voruvoru reporting, Angava Community is one of the communities in a series who reconciled with their MP.

Health ministry committed to SDGs

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BY LYNTON AARON FILIA

MINISTRY of Health and Medical Services is committed to addressing the sustainable development goals (SDG) with the establishment of the role delineation policy (RDP).

For the health and wellbeing of the Solomon Islands, the government is committed under the UN’s SDGs that all should have healthy lives by 2030.

With the Universal Health Coverage (UHC), CEO for National Referral Hospital Mr Steve Aumanu said, “One of the important tools to achieve the Universal Health Coverage is the Role Delineation Policy and it’s been discussed recently.”

He said RDP has many areas related to professional services which can be accessible at the community health clinics, rural health area centres, urban health centres, provincial hospital and NRH.

Aumanu adds, once RDP is implemented, it will support the country to achieve the SDGs because all levels of service provided inside the policy will be practised at all health areas across the provinces.

Currently NRH will undergo refurbishments and construction of new facilities funded by the Republic of China (Taiwan) and other donor partners.

Aumanu said infrastructure and maintenance are very important towards NRH’s service delivery as it will provide space, proper facilities and equipment which are the core functions for service delivery.

“Improving the facilities and infrastructure of clinics around the country and the NRH will set bench for achieving the SDGs particularly the UHC,” he said.

With the plan to have a new diabetic centre, specialist clinic and nurse hostel, Aumanu applauded the Republic of China (Taiwan) for the assistance.

MHMS’s Permanent Secretary Dr Tenneth Dalipanda said, “The RDP provides us with the way forward though to work towards making sure that we provide appropriate services in appropriate locations.

“So that people do not have to travel long distance to access services that should be available to them in their health zone or provinces.”

Dalipanda said their ultimate goal is to achieve the UHC for Solomon Islanders and the RDP is one initiated avenue that will help the ministry improve coverage, access to and reach of health services.

Poor internet services and limited space at USP SI

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DEAR EDITOR, a good number of students undertaking their Degree courses in various programmes at the University of The South Pacific in Solomon Islands Campus (Honiara) have been victimised by the poor internet services provided with in the USP Campus.

This was made more frustration to some of us who doing our online studies here which requires all times must be connected to the internet before we can able to do our academic works such us participating in discussion forums, uploading tutorial, attempting online quizzes or tests and uploading of assignments.

This ongoing issue of poor internet connection has affected us and resulted in losing marks.

This problem of poor internet service is encountered by students every day since beginning of this semester, therefore it could be seen that USP is not providing good services here in Solomon Island Campus.

In addition, apart from the internet services, the study environment within the campus is very limited to accommodate more than 2,000 students undertaking their studies in Preliminary, Foundations and Degree programmes here in USP Solomon Island Campus because limited space and students did not comfortable in such overcrowded environment when they doing their studies.

I personally can describe the service provided here as “first come, first save”.

The description that I used was not express out from my own view but it was told by one of the USP Campus Staff responsible in looking after the GPL computer lab.

As students undertaking online course we have to come to campus every day to sit down and access the internet, but because of limited space to acquire all the students I had been affected negatively in my studies.

I could not submit and post my tutorials on time.

Whoever came early as 6am in the morning will find space to sit down and study.

If you came in after 8am then am afraid no space is available.

The challenges that we faced with regards to the above is a great risk to us especially for the sponsored students undertaking our studies here at the USP SI campus under the Solomon Islands Government scholarship (SIG) because we will be victimised by the National Training Unit (NTU) policies once we perform poorly in the first semester academic results.

Therefore, I urge the responsible officers here in Solomon Island Campus to look for some possible solutions to issues raised in this letter so that students can perform better in their academic results at the end of this semester.

 

Relmah Ha’ananga

USP SI campus

Unemployment

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Milton Ragaruma
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DEAR EDITOR, as a student and a concerned citizen of Solomon Islands, it is sad to know that Solomon Islands has the highest rate of unemployment.

This has become an issue and a problem for the country especially the youths.

Currently, youths and women are vulnerable to this where 80 percent of people end up in criminal activities, prostitution, and anti-social behavior.

In our capital today, u can see young people along the streets selling betel-nuts, cigarette for the means of earning a living.

Whilst some young girls went to those fishing vessels to used up their bodies in exchange for money.

Moreover, others also involving in selling our local brew for fast income which is illegal.

In order to underlying the importance of this issue, there needs to be an increase of educational institution for the large number of drop outs to further their studies.

Provide more jobs allocation for the low qualification to afford jobs to sustain their living thus help in reducing unemployments in the rural area.

Hence, if our relevant authorities or our government would consider these points, then we should reduce these legal activities which taking place frequently in our country.

This is for the betterment of our people to live a happy, joyous, peaceful and a prosperous life from shore to shore in our happy Isles Solomon Islands.

 

Yours sincerely,

Edrie Hanirara

Emalus Campus, USP

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