A one week information workshop on the 2021 national budget for Civil Society Organizations (CSO) is underway in Honiara. The workshop is a follow on of the Floating Budget Office (FBO) Mission to Parliament which commenced on Tuesday 16 March,…
By EDDIE OSIFELO SPEAKER of Parliament, Patterson Oti calls on civil society organizations to work together to create a better Solomon Islands. Speaking at the launching of the Citizen Budget Guide 2020/21 at Honiara Hotel on Monday night, Oti said…
By EDDIE OSIFELO SPEAKER of Parliament, Patterson Oti says the production of the Citizen Budget Guide 2020/21 is timely. The Guide is an important tool to present the national budget in a simple way that can transform the culture of…
A total of 63 churches in the country will see their hygiene practices increase as the USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs (BHA) Project through World Vision Solomon Islands recently assisted them with water tanks. The churches are from Malaita, Makira,…
THE Malaita Provincial Disaster Office successfully certified 25 community leaders in Emergency Response Training (ERT), which will give communities the ability to assist authorities and carry out their own assessments in a disaster response event. Representatives from five communities under…
“It is now a Solomon Islands’ ship,” Robert Sisilo, Solomon Islands High Commissioner to Australia, declared when he accepted and received Solomon Islands second Patrol Boat the RSIPV Taro on Friday morning last week. “And with a life span…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO FOLLOWING the approval of Sinopharm by the World Health Organisation, the National Drugs Medicine and Therapeutics committee will now consider the approval of the vaccine for use in the country this week. This was confirmed by…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Choiseul MPA for Tavula Ward Clement Kengava has labelled the current provincial government incompetent and incapable of bringing in development for the province. He made this scathing attack in response to deputy premier Nerio Ulemiki’s media call…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Samples of the mysterious dead fish in Tulagi have been sent the national public health laboratory for testing. Zuleeyen Leinga from the Environmental Health Division told Island Sun yesterday tests are being carried out on the mysterious…
