COVID-19

THE Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) has launched a four-day first ever training on the COVID-19 Extra Care Measures and Standards. This followed...

BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Solomon Islands has recorded a new case of covid-19. The overall number of covid-19 cases so far is now at 20. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his nationwide address this yesterday, announced this. “Fellow citizen...

BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Fifty thousand doses of Sinopharm vaccines arrived around midnight Monday from China. The airbus left for China on Saturday and returned around 11.45 pm, Monday night. Present at the Honiara International Airport on Monday...

THE COVID-19 vaccine roll out will continue despite latest reports of the negative health impacts of the AstraZeneca vaccine. New findings from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) safety committee and the WHO Global Advisory Committee...

Government reacts to ‘blood clot and AstraZeneca’ findings by continuing vaccination rollout BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Government will continue with its AstraZeneca vaccination rollout programme despite a recent finding linking the vaccine with blood clots. On Thursday last...

BY ALFRED PAGEPITU & IRWIN ANGIKI Blood clots have been concluded by European medicine regulators to be a “very rare side effect” of the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine. However, they urge vaccination to continue. AstraZeneca is the...

Chiefs in the Shortland islands have conveyed their support for the covid-19 vaccine rollout in their communities. In a media statement over the weekend, the Health ministry applauded FAMOA Council of Chief in the Shortland...

BY BEN BILUAGizo BEULAH Provincial Secondary School Board has questioned the government’s post covid-19 Education Policy saying many boarding schools are suffering as a result of government’s failure to honor its policy. Principal of Beulah PSS...

BY ALFRED PAGEPITU If there is any covid-19 case detected in the border communities, the country will head into Lockdown. This is according to Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. In his nation wide address on Tuesday he said,...

PCYC charity Easter fishing competition ends on a high note BY ALFRED PAGEPITU The Point Cruz Yacht Club Easter fishing competition was successfully held over the weekend, with proceeds heading for the national referral hospital’s (NRH)...