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…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA CABINET has approved that school scholarships will be made available for next year. Confirming this is the Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (MEHRD) Dr Franco Rodie when questioned on any…
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…
OPPOSITION leader Matthew Wale is calling on the Prime Minister to take urgent steps to address the allowances of front-line officers in the fight against covid-19, which had been revealed as being unpaid since September 2020. “If the reports are…
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…
SINU SIG-students urge gov’t to pay up By EDDIE OSIFELO ABOUT 1,055 government-sponsored students at Solomon Islands National University (SINU) are calling on the Ministry of Finance and Treasury to settle their second semester allowances. The students are under pressure…
THE first round of assessment of all applications towards the Economic Stimulus Package under Fisheries and Tourism sectors completed the entire screening process this week. That’s according to the ESP Oversight Committee of the national government. “This means approvals have…
BY PRIESTLEY HABRU A Pacific wide maritime surveillance operation has discovered a few suspicious foreign vessels in Solomon waters as of early this week. The Pacific Islands Forum Agency (FFA) coordinates the surveillance operation with the Royal Australia Air Force…
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,…
