BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO THE current heavy rains is affecting Gizo town and its citizens, however they are showing resilience and vigilance by choosing to take advantage of it. The town had been wrought by serious water problems before the…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO FOUR local fishermen who went missing on Thursday last week were rescued on Saturday in Western Province. The missing men were found around lunchtime adrift between Simbo and Ranongga islands by a Mr Pita Fay, who…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO GIZO Police and community leaders are calling for calm following the death of a man who was hit by a falling tree branch on Monday. The 48-year-old man was said to be cutting a tree when…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO WESTERN Province Premier Hon Wayne Maepio has thanked the province’s public for cooperation over the Christmas and New Year’s period in Western Province. He acknowledged church elders, community leaders, and members in particular for celebrating last…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO GIZO market venders will temporarily be relocated to the MSG building to make way for constructions of a new re-developed market house funded by the Australian Government. Western Provincial Secretary, Jeffery Wickham yesterday confirmed that on…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI LOCAL artists have expressed excitement over the new crafts market centre project. A Mr Barney Walalau said it is a dream come true for them as their need to have a standard facility to display their artefacts…
TWENTY dolphins have been released from captivity and 14 suspects arrested in a joint operation by Police officers in Gizo and Noro, Western Province and officers from the Ministry of Fisheries at Rapata Village on Kolombangara Island on November 1,…
BY JARED KOLI THE Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) has launched the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) update for Western and Choiseul province hopes to commence on November 28, 2017. The BVR exercise will be conducted in readiness for the two…
BY JARED KOLI THE Solomon Islands Government has poured $4million into the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) update for Western and Choiseul provinces. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs George Palua acknowledged the national government for recognising the importance…
RSIPF Officers in the Western Province are investigating the dead body of an adult female person found at Kinamara Village near Noro this morning 15 August 2017. Provincial Police Commander, Western Province, Mathias Lenialu says reports reaching the police say…
