Covid-19 in the city
One of the latest cases detected in a quarantine site in the heart of Honiara BY BARNABAS MANEBONA AND PETER ZOLEVEKE II ONE of the five covid-19 positive cases announced on Monday this week was quarantined and detected in one…
One of the latest cases detected in a quarantine site in the heart of Honiara BY BARNABAS MANEBONA AND PETER ZOLEVEKE II ONE of the five covid-19 positive cases announced on Monday this week was quarantined and detected in one…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU A breach at the high-risk quarantine station at one of the hotels in Honiara’s CBD, where one covid-19 case was detected, took place yesterday. A member of public handed over a package to a person in quarantine…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO GOVERNMENT is being called on to reinstate the nurses’ association SINA since there is no other body to address and promote nurses’ welfare in the country. General Secretary for the suspended Solomon Islands Nuses Association (SINA)…
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 BARNABAS MANEBONA LIST of Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) project applications circulating since last week amongst the public is ‘not a true one’. Ministry of Finance and Treasury (MoFT) Permanent Secretary (PS) McKinnie Dentana and Chairman of the ESP Committee…
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 JENNIFER KUSAPA POLICE Commissioner Mostyn Mangau says no formal complaint has been raised to the po-lice about allegations of bribery in Malaita. Two separate bribery allegations on the PPC Malaita and also on two members of Provincial Assembly were…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA REPATRIATION date is not yet fixed for Solomon Islands graduating students this year over-seas but national government is thinking on ‘the second week of December’. As soon as all arrangements are formalised then they will announce the…
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…