BY LYNTON AARON FILIA ASPIRING young leaders across the Pacific islands countries on Wednesday celebrated their first alumni reunion of the Pacific Islands Leadership Programme (PILP) in Honiara. The event convened young leaders from Papua New Guinea, Nauru, French Polynesia,…
BY GEORGE MANFORD AUKI COMMUNITIES around Atori substation in East Malaita are calling on the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) to increase the number of police officers in Atori. Currently only one probationary police officer is manning the station.…
‘Calls to reform Forestry Regulations’ By Gary Hatigeva MEMBER of Parliament for Aoke/Langalanga and member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Matthew Wale has described Solomon Islands’ situation in the forestry-logging industry as a daylight robbery, having been robbed off…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE Honiara central market has had its lightings improved recently. The improved lights installed include the security lights across the four corners of the market building and few other electric light bulbs within the building. Honiara…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE A concerned student is calling on responsible authorities to consider providing USP (University of the South Pacific) Honiara based campus with more computers. The student who wishes to remain anonymous expressed that the campus only has…
BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO HONIARA central market vendors have been urged to comply with the newly introduced regulation on opening and closing times of the main market. This was raised after some vendors got caught serving consumers through fence rails…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA AS of next month the Honiara City Council (HCC) will remove the licence from public buses found to be running short routes, it is reported. At the moment, the HCC Taskforce responsible for transportation service are…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA HONIARA City Council is now planning to legitimize the Green Valley residential area that was earmarked to be the new site for the city’s cemetery after Kolaridge cemetery has reached its capacity. The Green valley residential…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA THE people of Guadalcanal has been urged to respect land that does not belong to them anymore. Paramount Chief of Ghaubata, Chief John Richard Saketala made this statement when asked by Island Sun newspaper on the issue…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA SIGNS of infestation of Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) are increasing around Ngella as the Agriculture Division in Central Islands Province (CIP) is yet to confirm new reported sites. Currently affecting palm trees along Ngella’s Central, South and…
