Country’s tally reaches 13 as more passengers from high-risk Oct-25 flight test positive to covid-19 BY BARNABAS MANEBONA SOLOMON Islands has registered five new covid-19 cases. Four of the new cases are returning soccer players while the fifth is a…
PRIME Minister Manasseh Sogavare today has announced five new COVID-19 cases in the country. Speaking during his nationwide address today, the Prime Minister said four of the new cases are from our returning soccer players.He said the fifth case is…
BY MAVIS N. PODOKOLO SEVENTY-EIGHT newly graduated nurses are in the process of being recruited, with some ex-pecting to start duties today. Pauline McNeil, Permanent Secretary to Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS), said this is necessary to fill…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE national government had revealed that only 73 nurses are eligible to receive covid-19 allowances and not all nurses. This was revealed by Dr Jimmie Rodgers Secretary to Prime Minister and member of the over-sight committee…
BY CHARLES KADAMANA THE government has disclosed how much the members of Solomon Island Nursing Association members (SINA) get with a call for nurses to give back to the country instead of asking for more. Secretary to Prime Dr Jimmy…
Government urges nurses to abandon sit-in protest and resume duties BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO NURSES on sit-in protest have been asked by government to return to duty. Government has labelled the peaceful sit-in protest staged by nurses, beginning Friday last…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THERE is no provision under the covid-19 quarantine regulation mandating the police to charge people in quarantine throwing out anything from the quarantine centres. Police Commissioner Mostyn Mangau stated this during his weekly media conference that there…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO SOLOMON Islands Nursing Association (SINA) proposed peaceful sit -in process planned for today (Friday 30th October) over delays to their covid-19 allowance has been postponed. A statement by the General Secretary, Steven Maitani, on Thursday 29th…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO SIXTEEN returning female students quarantined at the Guadalcanal Beach Resort were released yesterday after completing all testing protocols. Karl Kuper, Chairman for Institutional Quarantine Facilities (IQF), confirmed that the 17 students, who returned from the Philippines,…
Nurses to stage sit-in protest over unpaid allowance claim BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO NURSES in Honiara and Guadalcanal will stage a sit-in protest starting tomorrow over delays to their covid-19 allowance claims. The action is likely to bring to a…
