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 a three year cooperation agreement…
ARABALA Community High School in Malaita Province will now be able to improve its farming program with the handover of new agricultural machineries and manual farming tools from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) at the school last month.…
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 I am…
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 night were PRC…
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 for Vaccine Safety (GACVS) stated…
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 week, the European…
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 only WHO-approved vaccine available…
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 Islands, Western Province for confirming…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU LEADER of Opposition, Matthew Wale is worried about the state of the National Referral Hospital (NRH) describing it as an institution desperate on a number of fronts. In his speech on the 2021 Appropriation Bill in parliament…
A Mental Health Service Agreement was signed between the Correctional Service of Solomon Islands and the National Mental Division (NMD) of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services. According to Dr Paul Orotaloa the CSSI medical clinic and the Ministry…
