SEVEN community youth groups successfully signed a grant agreement with Oxfam’s “Statim Faia” project today as part of a series of capacity building and mentoring project designed to enhance youth-led solutions. The “Staim Faia” initiative which is driven by Oxfam…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA PRIME Minister Manasseh Sogavare has criticized the notion of approving same sex marriage especially from a religious country like Solomon Islands. The statement was made while giving his keynote address to officially open the Assembly of…
By Alfred Sasako ALL employees of Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) will get $5, 000 in special bonuses each, the President of the Workers’ Union of Solomon Islands (WUSI), David Tuhanuku confirmed yesterday. This will cost SIPA an estimated $2.3…
BY BEN BILUA SOLOMON Islands has successfully moved a new agenda and that is to include human rights on any agreement Pacific Island Countries signed with Indonesia during the recent Pacific Island Forum Leaders meeting. Minister of Foreign Affairs and…
…MERHD investigates boozing involving male students studying in Manila By Alfred Sasako THE Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) is investigating reports of boozing involving male students studying at two academic institutions in Manila, Philippines. Island Sun was…
Kurkuru leaves next week for Turkmenistan By Taromane Martin MENTAL fitness will be a concern for the Solomon Islands national futsal team, the Kurukurus, when they travel next week for the fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts game in Turkmenistan.…
Food outlets operating without proper monitoring, increasing cases of complaints THE health risks associated with eating in one of the many food outlets in Honiara continues unchecked as the Government places little effort towards bolstering monitoring mechanisms. This is…
But would love to wear the famous blue, yellow and green jersey in December’s Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu for the one last time before bidding farewell BY ROMULUS HUTA NATIONAL football captain Henry Fa’arodo is thinking of retiring from…
BLC labels this a regrettable decision & serious omission BY CAROL-ANNE SULEGA PROVISIONS against illicit gains have been removed from the Anti-Corruption Bill 2016, and this has been described by the Bills and Legislations Committee (BLC) as a regrettable and…
By Alfred Sasako A week or so ago, the Solomon Forest Association (SFA) came in for severe criticisms by the Leader of the Independent Group in Parliament, Dr Derek Sikua, who called for the deregistration of the logging industry’s self-regulatory body. That was a week ago. This…
