BY LYNTON AARON FILIA SOLOMON Islands is looking at increasing its tourism industry through new marketing strategy this year. In the 2018 Tourism in Focus forum held at the Mendana Hotel yesterday, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Solomon Islands…
All activities relating to fishing or harvesting of sea cucumber (beche-de-mer) will cease as of midnight of January 31, 2018, says the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources in a statement issued yesterday. It says the five months ‘Open Harvest…
BY ROMULUS HUTA A total of 10 referees across all football codes from Solomon Islands have been accredited with FIFA badges for this year. This is for all three football codes namely conventional 11-aside, futsal and beach soccer. The total…
BY ROMULUS HUTA THE historic visit of the FIFA world cup trophy to Solomon Islands will be accompanied by former French national footballer and New Caledonian Christian Karembeu. The trophy will touch down at Henderson International Airport in Honiara early…
Standing at the bus-stop for hours on end has commuters questioning HCC’s new bus routes BY JARED KOLI THREE weeks after being implemented, the reality of Honiara City Council’s (HCC) long bus routes is kicking in. People are lining up…
PRIME Minister Hon Rick Houenipwela was the guest of honour during the Australia Day function held at the residence of the Australian High Commissioner last week. In his opening remarks, the Prime Minister stated how grateful he is on behalf…
“IT’S a boost for me,” says young and enthusiastic Statistician Josephat Tako. Young Tako works as an assistant statistician within the Social Demography Unit in the National Statistics Office (NSO), Ministry of Finance & Treasury (MoFT). Recently he attended and…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO LEADERS Education Authorities Project (LEAP) and Provincial Education Authorities (PEA) are currently holding a weeklong workshop in Honiara. Spearheaded by the Leaders Education Authorities Project (LEAP), it is an initiative under the Ministry of Education and…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO AS the country’s population grows so too does the task of providing quality education for our children. Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) Dr Frances Rodie highlighted that schools are become…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI THE Solomon Islands Democratic Coalition for Change Government has assured commitment to deliver 11 bills before parliament this year. Prime Minister Hon Rick Hou made the statement during his first ever press conference with local media yesterday.…
