HONIARA City Council employees will be receiving an 8 percent pay increase. This has been confirmed by the Chairman of Finance Eric Tema following a recommendation approved by the Finance Standing Committee. “The increase of salary was an in depth…
By Mike Puia Gizo FOR the first time the Western provincial government will collect basic rates. Capacity prevented the province from collecting basic rates in the past years resulting in the province losing huge revenue. According to the Provincial Secretary,…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA SOLOMON Airlines Airbus A320 aircraft is still in the Maintenance Hangar in Singapore. According to Mr Colin Sigimanu the Manager Commercial for Solomon Airlines Ltd, the C-Check has taken a bit longer than expected basically because they…
By Mike Puia Gizo THE national government’s cut to line ministries’ budgets appears to have crippled provincial branches. Provincial agriculture extension offices are being hard hit. According to the Western provincial agriculture extension branch, based in Gizo, most of its…
Several ‘financial anomalies’ prompts request for check BY SAMIE WAIKORI Auki THE Malaita province’s account section is bound to be audited soon after some discrepancies were discovered, it is reported. A request has been submitted by the province for an…
By Francis Sivita OLA Fou students from Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Vanuatu welcomed the SI board members on Saturday. After the long sessions from Thursday up to Saturday the students gathered together to rehearse and prepare a welcome ceremony for…
By Francis Sivita OLA Fou students of Solomon Islands welcomed their friends from Vanuatu and Kiribati on Thursday last week at the SWIM compound, east of Honiara. After the traditional welcome they continued with their normal programme up to Saturday…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA THE Honiara City roads are the Ministry of Infrastructure Development’s (MID) area of concern to take care of, said Honiara City Council’s (HCC) Mayor Andrew Mua recently. Mr Mua made this clarification in response to continuous complaints…
BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE FORM 6 students and staff of Mbokona Community High School took part in a Mandarin awareness activity conducted by SINU’s Mandarin teacher from Taiwan, Ms Kuei-Mi Li, on April 20. They were treated to a lesson…
By Gary Hatigeva HUNDREDS turned out yesterday to join the family of Christopher Utia Nemaia in a Requiem Mass held at the Holy Cross Cathedral in honour of his memory. Chris went missing while on duty on April 19. The…
