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…
Maritime authority detains ship for spilling oil at Graciosa Bay BY BEN BILUA MARITIME authorities have detained a foreign log-ship which had spilled oil in Graciosa Bay waters, Temotu province. The vessel was at the Bay to pick up logs…
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…
WHERE is the Honiara City Council? And what are they doing about illegal developments in Honiara? In March last year, the council demolished a retention wall at the Rove seafront that was built at the mouth of the stream that…
ORION Limited Managing Manager, Chan Chee Min has questioned the “tactics” and “ploys” employed by some logging companies operating in the country to export logs overseas. Chan gave examples of companies like FR Resources, ES Suba Enterprise Limited, Bulacan International…
By EDDIE OSIFELO ORION Limited Managing Director, Chan Chee Min has questioned the integrity of Registrar of Companies in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Labour and Immigration. This was after the Registrar of Companies decided not to intervene in the…
By EDDIE OSIFELO ORION Limited Managing Director, Chan Chee Min is questioning the integrity of police after no answers and actions were taken since Bulacan International Limited exported 7,000 cubic metres of logs in South Choiseul onboard MV Ocean Star…
Asian logger wants SFA registration cancelled By EDDIE OSIFELO THE Managing Director of Orion Limited, Chan Chee Min has called on the Registrar of Companies to exercise the “Statutory Obligations” and the “Fiduciary Duty” to cancel the registration of Solomon…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI MAI-MAASINA Green Belt’s (MMGB) endeavour to save biodiversity in the southern region of Malaita province is gaining momentum. An executive member of MMGB, Mr Flex Naitoro said at the moment the organisation has up to 28…
