Giant mining company withdraws from race for Nickel in the country SUMITOMO Metal Mining Solomon Limited, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd (“SMM”) has withdrawn its interest from the nickel exploration project in the country. The giant mining…
A joint operation between RSIPF Honiara City and Guadalcanal Province uprooted and confiscated about 3,000 marijuana plants on Saturday 12 August 2017. Police uprooted two gardens in two different locations. One location at Mbarande and the other at Mbalesuna, East…
THE Parliamentary Opposition Leader Honourable Jeremiah Manele has described Government MPs lack of commitment in attending Parliament as ‘shocking and disgraceful’. In a statement yesterday, the Opposition Leader said it was inexcusable for Government MPs not to attend Parliament especially…
THE Government is sitting on a Memorandum of Understanding [MOU] designed to speed up work on the nation’s multi-million dollar Tina River Hydro scheme, it was revealed yesterday. “Both the last and this government have been sitting on the MOU…
RURU primary and secondary school was flooded after heavy rains last Saturday, in east Fataleka, in Malaita province. Ruru School principal Wesley Rubea told this paper yesterday that the flooding started in the early hours on Saturday morning from a…
THE Waisisi-Wairokai Palm Oil Project is real says the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL). Ground work is ongoing at Wairokai where the nursery is located and transplanting of the first 9,000 seedlings is implemented. MAL made the revelation for…
Dear Editor, THANKS to the very kind and generous donation of a Brisbane based doctor and staff members of Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology Laboratory, also in Brisbane, the NRH has received 400 kilos of much needed equipment, including a bacterial incubator,…
A day into the event and organisers of 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal are facing heavy criticism for failing to include segments that would promote local war relic collectors. Locals with sizeable genuine collections of World War 2…
AT a recent graduation ceremony held at the Victoria University in Australia, Ms, Irene Paulsen, originally from Buala in Isabel Province was proudly capped as Dr Irene Paulsen, PhD. In the mid-late 1990s, Irene was the Head of Distance Education…
