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BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI MALAITA provincial health through its provincial emergency operation centre for covid-19 is preparing for covid-19 vaccination roll-out for mainland Malaita. According to information received, a meeting was held at Kilu’ufi earlier this week...

By Gary Hatigeva FINANCE Minister and Member of Parliament for East Choiseul has categorically denied and rejected claims that logging operators have heavily influenced the government or its ministers over their forestry policies. At the eve...

BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO WHILE the country is preparing for a 36-hour lockdown, 19 people are serving their mandatory quarantine at government funded stations. Jonathan Taufiariki, deputy director to National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) in a...

By Alfred Sasako THE nation’s nine premiers have descended on Honiara, demanding assurance from the national government that the 2018 budget would be passed on time. At the same time they have expressed concern that the...

LEADER of Opposition Matthew Wale has rubbished the response by a faceless official within the PMO to his statement on the $200,000 China funding under the shameful so-called National Development Funds. “Of course you expect...

PRIME Minister Manasseh Sogavare said the situation in Fiji is extremely worrying for our students, parents, and the Government. Prime Minister Sogavare in his nationwide address this week said citizens must not take the situation...

BY LYNTON AARON FILIA INTERNATIONAL visitation to Solomon Islands has shown double digit growth for the fourth month in a row, it is reported. The Solomon Islands National Statistics Office (SINSO) this week revealed that international...

BY GEORGINA KEKEA PERMANENT Secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and MACFest NOC Chairperson, Andrew Nihopara has made clarification on the concerns and sentiments raised by certain groups and individuals on the absence...

WORLD Vision in its support of the government’s national covid-19 vaccination campaign, is urging residents in Small Malaita to be jabbed. National Director Jimmy Nadapdap made the call in his official remarks during the official...

BY BARNABAS MANEBONA NATIONAL government while dealing with covid-19 will introduce some control on the ‘frequency’ of foreign nationals leaving and re-entering the country. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his fortnightly nationwide address yesterday said “such...