BY LYNTON AARON FILIA IN TAIWAN SOLOMON Islands can learn from Taiwan’s world-shattering agriculture to industrial economy. Inspired by the session on Taiwan’s transition of development Mr Dennis Marita, Director for Culture Division of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA AN orientation workshop for provincial women leaders will be held in Honiara tomorrow. The orientation workshop aims to provide an opportunity for women’s caucus leaders from Malaita, Western and Guadalcanal provinces to review the draft Terms of…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA IN TAIWAN EIGHTY-SIX young leaders from the Asia Pacific region has gathered in Taipei for a 10-day seminar on leadership. Following the successful event last year, this year Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has once again…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA THE Ministry of Finance and Treasury (MoFT) has put on hold, four capital infrastructure projects. The projects were put on hold in order for the government to under-take its multi-million dollar undertaking of the 2023 Pacific Games.…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA CANADA’S Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau has met with leaders from the Pacific Island nations on Saturday. In his meeting with the Pacific Leaders, Trudeau spoke about funding infrastructure resilient to the effects of climate change. “The opportunity…
BY Gary Hatigeva $213.4million is projected to be the government’s 2019 Budget Support expenditure. This will be allocated to five ministries through donor partners. The Ministries are, the Ministry of Health and Medical Services, allocated with an estimate of over…
By Alfred Sasako PRIME Minister Rick Houenipwela may have been “talked out” of a private meeting with President Xi Jinping of China during the APEC Summit being held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Officials accompanying the Prime Minister confirmed…
BY BEN BILUA FIRST commercial shipment of nickel in Solomon Islands history is expected to occur in the first three months of 2019. Axiom Mining Company has confirmed to Island Sun over the weekend that they have already drawn down…
Training for 2019 Oceania Futsal World Cup Qualifiers begin today BY ROMULUS HUTA NATIONAL futsal coach Sam Jerry has named a 19-man train-on squad for the senior Kurukuru side on Sunday. This is to prepare for next year’s Oceania qualifiers…
Missing records, poor receipts, unauthorized payments, usurious loans BY GEORGINA KEKEA OFFICE of the Auditor General (OAG) is concerned about the poorly kept financial records of the Provincial Governments and Honiara City Council (HCC). In the Provincial Government’s and Honiara…
