BY BEN BILUA CHAIRMAN of the North West Guadalcanal Subsistence Farmers Association (NWGSFA), Bernard Garo has rubbished reports of Rhinoceros beetle eating noni fruits, describing it to be unfounded and misleading. He made the statement in response to a report…
By EDDIE OSIFELO HONIARA resident Stephen Maki has provided legal documents yesterday to prove his call for City Mayor Wilson Mamae and Clerk, Rence Sore to resign. The two documents are: 1. Special Investigation Audit Report on the accounts and…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA DESPITE missing out on the Pfizer Vaccines for 0.25 percent of the country’s population, the COVAX Facility has confirmed allocation of an indicative number of 108,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his…
BY BEN BILUA THE Minister of Agriculture for Guadalcanal Province, Daniel Besa’o says food security is an ongoing issue and efforts to address the issue has been lagging behind time. He made the statement during the launching of partnership to…
1000-plus cases, RSIPF find difficulty in disposing high profile cases By EDDIE OSIFELO THE two investigation departments with the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) are finding it difficult to dispose high profile cases quickly. This is because there are…
BY BEN BILUA THE Premier of Rennell and Bellona province has welcomed the motion of no confident filed against him. “Bring it on,” Willie Tuhagenga said in an interview with Island Sun yesterday ahead of the motion, which will be…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU HONIARA city mayor Wilson Mamae has labelled calls for him and City Clerk Rence Sore to resign as “nothing more than political stunt orchestrated by those who oppose his good works”. Mamae was responding to Honiara…
Gov’t urged to terminate minister for lying in public GOVERNMENT has been urged to sack Environment minister Titus Fika for lying in public. Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) made the call yesterday after the Island Sun exposed Fika’s dishonest in a…
Environment minister Fika denies issuing directive, documents show otherwise By EDDIE OSIFELO ENVIRONMENT minister Titus Fika has denied giving Sunrise Investment Ltd the right to sell tubi trees the Malaysian logger illegally harvested on San Jorge, Isabel. He has also…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU WHILE Honiara is scraping hard with fish prices in its central market, Gizo is reportedly enjoying ridiculously low prices for fish. Heavy rains and bad weather is reportedly making fishermen spiking their prices high in Honiara, citing…
