Aba Corporation promises return after devastating fire BY ALFRED SASAKO SOLOMON Islands lost a huge part of its commercial history last night, when an early morning fire destroyed the Aba Corporation’s 68-year-old shop and warehouses in Chinatown. Nothing could be…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA MORE than 30 public service officers underwent the Gender Mainstreaming and Sensitisation Workshop for Human Resources Managers and Gender Focal Points yesterday. The one-day workshop at the Rock Haven was aimed to enhance understanding on…
BY GEORGE MANFORD AUKI VILLAGERS from Anorara to Taba’a, ward 15 in East Malaita, will soon experience the benefit from the road being constructed towards their communities. Provincial member for ward 15, Martin Aniana said the eight kilometre road has…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA TAIWAN Technical Mission (TTM) has propagated more than 100,000 vines to local farmers in the Guadalcanal Plains. After seven months of hard work with the Tetere Beach Farm and communities across the Guadalcanal Plains, Taiwan’s…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA UNDERSECRETARY for Health Improvement under the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) Dr Nemia Bainivalu recently said more efforts are still needed to fight Tuberculosis (TB). This is because the disease still represents a public health…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO SANTUPAELE community in Kolombangara Island stands to benefit from a newly built school building supported and funded by the Rural Development Project (RDP). The official opening and handing over of keys to the building was held…
BY ELLISON.T.VAHI THE wish to have more women in parliament is being blocked by a number of barriers, it is reported. These barriers are stated in the National Gender Equality and Women’s Development Policy 2016-2020, of the ministry of women…
BY GEORGINA KEKEA WITH the increase of preventable diseases, a timely research was conducted in 2016 on the menstrual hygiene management in the Pacific. Titled the Last Taboo: Research on menstrual hygiene management in the Pacific, the report speaks volumes…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU GIZO SOLOMON Power in Gizo is said to continue with its set-up and connection of power lines towards west Gizo. This resumption follows a memorandum of agreement between landowners of Niumada and Titiana and Solomon Power and…
BY LYNTON AARON FILIA WITHIN the top two highest levels of senior management positions within the Solomon Islands Public Service, men outnumber women on a ratio of 12 to 1, it is reported. This comprises around 8 percent of…
