First C’wealth medal renews call to construct standard sporting facilities BY ROMULUS HUTA THE bronze medal won by female lifter Jenlyn Wini has renewed calls for immediate construction of international standard sporting facilities in Solomon Islands. Ronald Bei Talasasa Junior,…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA CHILDREN’S interest in education is progressing in Solomon Islands, yet many schools lack professional teachers and infrastructure, it is reported. Solomon Islands has joined the world to push for quality education for all by 2030 through…
By Gary Hatigeva PRIME Minister Rick Houenipwela has hit back at members of Parliament who spoke out against the government’s projects and the arrangement of deals they continue to make with development and donor partners. The Prime Minister was responding…
PRIME Minister Rick Houenipwela met with a high-level delegation from the Australia Government at the Office of the Prime Minister & Cabinet (OPMC) yesterday. During the meeting, Prime Minister Hou reiterated his Government’s commitment in seeing this project progress further.…
By Gary Hatigeva PRIME Minister, Rick Hounipwela has urged the Bills and Legislation Committee (BLC) to quickly convene and start looking into the remaining government proposed legislations that are now ready for BLC deliberation. Prime Minister Hou made this call…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA SCOPING study into the undersea cable from Australia to Solomon Islands is now complete. Leading a high-level delegation from the Australian Government is Deputy Secretary, Penny Williams who travelled to Honiara to present the findings of the…
By Alfred Sasako SIG-SPONSORED students at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji have been assured their monthly allowance would not be affected, students at the Laucala Campus told Island Sun yesterday. They said the National Training Unit [NTU]…
THE Gizo-Kolombangara by-election is set to go ahead next month, with seven months remaining before the current parliament dissolves. The by-election is to fill a parliamentary seat that was left vacant since December 2017. With Parliament dissolving around the second…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA THE Ministry of Communication and Aviation (MCA) has three years to prepare to take full control of the country’s airspace, it is reported. Currently, Australia has a 40 percent share over Solomon Islands airspace. This is because…
Guadalcanal plains palm oil outgrowers lash out at 2018 Budget BY LYNTON AARON FILIA OUTGROWERS of Guadalcanal oil palm plantation are disappointed with the national government’s budget for 2018, it is reported. Guadalcanal plain farmers say they have been neglected…
