BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO SEVENTEEN students missed the third repatriation flight due to ‘paper work matters’. This brings the total number of our students in the Philippines yet to be brought home to 44. Dr Jimmie Rodgers, secretary to Prime…
TREATING young girls with care and patience are skills Lyn Subai learnt as a mentor of the Girls Rise Up! project in Solomon Islands. Lyn is one of many trained community mentors in the Girls Rise Up! project, led by…
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA A POLICE exhibit officer has been suspended after more than $300,000 of cash exhibit kept in their custody went missing. Commissioner of Police Mostyn Mangau revealed this yesterday, although the incident is believed to have occurred October…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO FIFTY-SIX quarantine occupants of the Government funded facilities graduated on Monday 1st February. Health Permanent Secretary Pauline McNeil said at moment there are 239 still in the government funded facilities. 56 of them graduated on Monday. …
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU CUSTOMERS will have to dig deeper into their pockets for fish as the bad weather continues. Fishermen are saying they are spending more and risking their lives trying to get fish to sell in the current heavy…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE recent reactivated covid-19 case has now tested negative for the virus and is being taken care of at the field hospital. This was confirmed by Dr Yogesh Choudri, technical advisor to Ministry of Health and…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA HONIARA City Council (HCC) Mayor Wilson Mamae has given ‘directive’ for the council’s Law Enforcement officers to step up in their duty for this year. The Mayor is taking action in response to continued criticisms that the…
BY PETER ZOLEVEKE II SOL2023 National Hosting Authority (NHA) are in consultations to create an intended plan with the Ministry of Education and Human Resources (MERD) to work with provincial schools in setting up futsal courts in Malaita and Western…
By EDDIE OSIFELO ASIAN loggers have launched an unprecedented attack on the Foreign Investment Board (FIB) as FIB officials venture out to check on the loggers’ operations across the country. FIB officials were in Makira and Temotu provinces the last…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE next high-risk repatriation flight is scheduled for February 7, 2021. According to Dr Jimmie Rodgers, permanent secretary to Prime Minister, this repatriation flight is covered under the approval of cabinet last year and is labelled…
