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Monday, September 25, 2023

Gender gap in life expectancy narrows: Census Report

BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THE recently launched 2019 census...

Man arrested for common assault

BY ROMINAH FAKA Defendant Trevor Molea appeared in...

Chief of Sulukokolo Land Calls for Cancellation of Logging License

By EDDIE OSIFELO Chief John Marawa of Sulukokolo...

VIEWPOINT- SIPA CEO is again in the news, but for mere led lights

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WILLIAM BARILE Former CEO, SIPA IN the interest of fair press, I take liberty to update readers to the early history of toils and sweat that preceded the most recent glamour and fanfare of CEO of...

VIEW POINT- A way forward for resolving the HCC saga

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PETER FORAU Honiara A LOT has been said about the HCC saga, so let’s now urge the authorities to act appropriately, to bring normalcy to the situation.  It would seem, judging from the reactions in the social...

PRIVATE VIEW- TSI commends McNeil, urges police to arrest

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TRANSPARENCY Solomon Islands (TSI) commends the Commissioner of Lands (CoL) Mr.Alan McNeil for reporting the forgery allegation to police and refusing to grant the Fixed Term Estate (FTE) to Chengs Constructions Ltd. The allegation ...

TSI’s Call for dissolution of HCC

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Corrupt conduct & practice - HCC Lock Up shops BASED on the evidence per HCC special audit report Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) calls on the Minister responsible to dissolve the current Honiara City Council (HCC)...

Unexplained wealth in HCC needs investigation

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GIVEN the many issues and allegations raised in media following the change of government with regard to the governance, management, administration, finances etc. of Honiara City Council, TRANSPARENCY Solomon Islands (TSI) urges the minister...

VIEWPOINT- SIPA’s tariff and related revenue issues

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WILLIAM BARILE Former CEO of SIPA IN support of my previous article on the question whether SIPA is monopoly I would like to draw reader’s attentions to the long drawn trail of errors and, lack of...

TSI- PM respond to CDF concerns is unacceptable

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TRANSPARENCY Solomon Islands (TSI) is very disappointed to hear the Prime Minister (PM) Manasseh Sogavare responding to many concerns raised on the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) by challenging the premiers of Malaita and Guadalcanal...

VIEWPOINT- SEZs can drive transformational economic development in SI

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IF you are like me, observing with mortification, the languid state of our economic development, then I hope this article can ignite excitement that this state of affairs can actually change, literally overnight- well...

PRIVATE VIEW- Is SIPA a monopoly in the International shipping cargo tariff haul?

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I TAKE it upon myself to contribute viewpoints to ongoing discussions on matters I spend a lifetime carrier labouring to make contributions towards.  We all have a duty of care to guard and protect the...

Muaki questions Mamara town development & govt

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By EDDIE OSIFELO SINGAPORE’s METROPOLIC Pacific PTE Ltd move to build 5000 houses at Mamara in North West Guadalcanal has raised more questions than answers for some landowners. Former Special Secretary to Prime Minister, Andrew Muaki...