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Warriors ends successful year in style

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Judd Molea receiving the O-League best midfielder’s award from club president Hon Dettke

BY ROMULUS HUTA

Judd Molea receiving the O-League best midfielder’s award from club president Hon Dettke

NATIONAL soccer champions Solomon Warriors has ended its successful 2017/18 season in style with the rewarding of its players in Honiara on Saturday night.

In a ceremony marked to say thanks to the players for coming off again successfully by doing a double in the domestic Telekom S-League (TSL), club president Hon. Bodo Dettke described last season as big time for the club.

“We have won the TSL league and the TSL knockouts together and this will go down as a history for the club.

“Having to go as far as the quarterfinal in the Oceania Champions League is also another milestone achievement for the club.

“This shows who we truly are and I must take this as an opportunity to challenge the players to maintain similar performance when the new season starts.

“It’s not always easy to win. But with the hardwork every one, players and the team management have put together, we have been able to fulfil our objectives last season,” Hon. Dettke said.

Recollecting their campaign in the Oceania Champions league, even though they have been placed in a tough pool, they managed to make it through.

“I think we have proved many critics wrong with our results in the Oceania Champions League.

“We lost narrowly against Auckland City in a game we could have won.

“We lost but we competed well. We went into the Oceania Champions League by representing the whole country and lost with a lot of pride, something I am very proud of.”

Looking ahead to the next season, Hon Dettke said every team will try to beat Solomon Warriors next season and this is a challenge for the whole team.

“I urge all players to step up in their attitudes next season.

“Why we lost in the O-League quarterfinal was because we were not prepared to compete against the best.

“This is the reason why we need to step up to strengthen our weakness next season which I believe we can do it.

“The aim is to go extra mile and improve from last season.

Meanwhile, for the successes last season, the players were rewarded with cash pay outs and trophies.

SKBA competition enters day 5

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SKBA competition enters day 5

By Taromane Martin

THE Solomon Kids Basketball Academy (SKBA) competition continues today with day five of competition at the Chung Wah school hall.

This year’s competition sees a total of nine teams taking part, with three boys team competing in the 15 years and above category, two mix teams in the 11-14 years old category and four teams competing in the junior category.

The competition enters day five of competition today and will see three matches taking place for the junior category and one match for the high school boy’s category.

Junior category matches for today starts at 5:15pm as Doggz boys on Bulls in the boys division while Timberwolves meets Titans in the High schools boys’ competition.

Happening at 5:40pm will see Superstarz taking on Wolvepower in the girls’ junior category while Celtics is set to meet GSW in the mix genders competition at 6:00pm.

This year’s SKBA tournament is supported by Solomon Sheet Steel, Our Telekom and Pacific Casino Hotel.

Meanwhile competition table standings as of May 10 are as follows:

RESULT as of: 10/05/18

RANK TEAM GP WIN LOST DRAW POINTS
JNR BOYS
1 BULLS 4 2 2 0 6
2 DOGGZ 4 2 2 0 6
JNR GIRLS
1 SUPERSTARZ 4 3 1 0 9
2 WOLVEPOWER 4 1 3 0 3
MIX GENDER
1 GSW 4 3 1 0 9
2 CELTICS 4 1 3 0 3
H/SCHOOL BOYS
1 TIMBERWOLVES 2 1 0 1 4
2 TITANS 3 1 2 0 3
3 KNIGHTS 3 1 1 1 4

 

 

 

Pua aiming high

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Diesel Viti’s Henry Pua misses with a right hook during his fight with Alex Mika at the Multipurpose Hall on Saturday. Photo Taromane Martin.

“My times’ coming”

By Taromane Martin

Diesel Viti’s Henry Pua misses with a right hook during his fight with Alex Mika at the Multipurpose Hall on Saturday. Photo Taromane Martin.

IT’S only a matter a time of says 20 year old Henry Pua till he gets the call to represent Solomon Islands in boxing at a regional competition.

The 20 year old south paw fighter shocked boxing fans at the Multipurpose Hall on Saturday night after defeating last year’s Pacific Mini Games bronze medallist Alex Mika via judges split point’s decision during their HABA bantam weight fight.

Pua who fights for the Diesel Viti boxing club said it was an honour to pick up the win, he is excited and hopes after 11 wins things will start get rolling for him.

“It was an honour to pick up the win over Alex who was one of the bronze medallists for the country at the Pacific Mini-Games in Vanuatu last year,” he told SunSPORTS after his win on Saturday.

“Actually this is not our first meeting. We’ve fought previously and to be honest it was our fight today was just another fight.

“But I’m excited having come off with the win over him,” he said.

“This is my 14 bout since joining the HABA fortnightly bouts in 2016. This is my 11th win in the competition.

“I started boxing when I was 18 years old that was two years ago. After 11 wins I would say my career is looking good. I’m looking forward for more upcoming tournament.

“Elven wins should hopefully get my career in boxing going,” Pua who hopes to represent the country in the near future said.

The 20 year old meanwhile praised his coach Junior Bainivalu, a long time and experienced boxing coach, for his mentorship and believes Diesel Viti is the right club for him.

And under the watchful eyes of the experienced coach Bainivalu, Pua is confident he will soon get the call to represent the country in the near future.

“Diesel Viti is a long time club. We train under Junior Bainivalu who has trained some of the country’s top boxers in the past like junior Chan and Benedict Talovae.

“It’s a privilege for me to train with him, he’s a very experienced coach, and I would say Diesel Viti is the right club for me.

“Of course I’m ready and it’s not one day. It’s just next year. I have always dreamt of representing the country and I have a very strong feeling that I can do it and my time is coming,” the 20 years old said.

Donga named Warriors’ player of the year

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Jerry Donga receiving the Warriors player of the year award from club president Hon Bodo Dettke.

BY ROMULUS HUTA

Jerry Donga receiving the Warriors player of the year award from club president Hon Bodo Dettke.

MIDFIELDER Jerry Donga was named as Solomon Warriors’ player of the year.

Donga received the accolade during the club’s awards night held last Saturday in Honiara.

The attacking midfielder who is also a member of the national senior men’s soccer team was an integral performing member of the Moses Toata-coached winning side during the 2017/18 season.

This was despite nursing a late injury since last December which somehow played little effect in his performance heading into the Oceania Champions League and the Telekom S-League championship series recently.

Donga’s name will be imprinted onto a perpetual shield which also bears the names of other previous winning recipients’ namely former striker Kidston Billy, Micah Lea’alafa and Hardis Aengari.

Receiving the award, Donga was proud to be honoured with the club’s highest ranked title.

“I thanked the management of the club for recognising me this season.

“I hope this will be used to help me push forward next season.”

During the awards night, other players were also rewarded for their hardwork throughout the season.

The awards were given according to various categories by taking into account the performances from the Telekom S-League (TSL) league competition, TSL championship series and the Oceania Club Champions League.

The top performers in the TSL league competition are Hardis Aengari (Best Defender), Izomo Bird (Best Goalkeeper), John Alick (Best midfielder) and Tigi Molea (Best striker/golden boot).

In the TSL championship series, the top performers are Joseph Komu (Best Goalkeeper), Bata Furai (Best Defender), Jerry Donga (Best Midfielder) and Kensi Tangis (best striker/golden boot).

For top performers in the Oceania Club Champions League, Bird had his name called up for the best goalkeeper’s award for the second for the second time of the night, Allan Peter (Best Defender), Judd Molea (Best Midfielder) and Gagame Feni (best striker/golden boot).

Defender Emmanuel Poila received the most committed player award for his good attitude and behaviour toward training while Albert Wetney was given the Most Promising Young Player’s Award.

The awards ceremony was wrapped up with contracted players and officials been rewarded with their end-of-season pay-out totalling up to $360,000 from the club’s official sponsor.

Meanwhile, Warriors had a successful campaign last season by winning both the TSL league title and the TSL championship series.

In the recent Oceania Champions League, the club had also reached new heights by qualifying past the group phase and into the quarterfinal for the first time – something head coach Moses Toata plans on to surpass and promises to fulfil next season.

Striding forward

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Participants and Officials who took part in the one-day Organisational Capacity Workshop on Monday in Honiara.

Paralympic organisational capacity workshop a success

BY ROMULUS HUTA

Participants and Officials who took part in the one-day Organisational Capacity Workshop on Monday in Honiara.

A one-day organisational capacity workshop held on Monday in Honiara ended with a success.

The workshop is organised by the Oceania Paralympic Committee (OCP) in collaboration with the Solomon Islands National Paralympic Committee.

The workshop, held at the Solomon Islands Rugby Union Federation (SIRUF) conference room at Town Ground was facilitated by Casper Pule of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sports division and Collin Bynon of the OCP.

Pule is an accredited OCP educator.

The insightful workshop brings together representatives from such federations as Archery, Swimming, Table Tennis, Triathlon and other stakeholders to discuss vital issues pertaining to the significant questions as to why the Solomon Islands National Paralympic Committee (SINPC) need to properly set up here in the country to move forward.

Pule said the importance of the workshop is to get the concerned federations to understand how they can fit in and involve in the important process of setting up a proper body for the sporting Paralympic members.

This is to cater for the growing demands of the sporting people with disability in Solomon Islands.

Bynon said the workshop is about promoting good governance in the Paralympic movement.

“Actually we’ve got few different outcomes we want to achieve.

“These programmes are funded by the Agitos Foundation who is the development arm of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

“The idea is to work towards improving the governance of the National Paralympic Committees which in turn will empower to raise the profile of Para sport within Solomon Islands communities.

“Of course it is also to develop key people in Solomon Islands by training them with the capacity to empower them to carry on with the important task ahead.

“Countries in Oceania have different situations. In Solomon Islands, it needs a lot of work in good governance because of the history that the Paralympic movement in Solomon Islands is driven by people who have passion to see this going.

“But I think this is a time to move forward and we’d like to see on-running work on the ground align with the desired patterns of good governance as required by the IPC and OPC,” Bynon, who is also a member of the OPC said.

After the completion of the workshop, the next step is to properly organise the Paralympic movement in Solomon Islands where an entity which would be called and officially recognised as the Solomon Islands National Paralympic Committee (SINPC) by the OCP and IPC be formed to carry out immense task ahead.

Renewal pivotal for all aspects of life

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His grace Archbishhop George Takeli declare the re-launching of the decade of evangelism & renewal with fellow bishops. Photos by Daniel Kakadi.

By LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE

ACoM Archbishop George Takeli giving his address.

THE overall goal of the Re-launching of the Decade of Evangelism and Renewal from 2017 – 2027 is to renew and revitalise the mission and ministry of the Church.

This is according to Rev Canon John Kafwanka, Director for Mission of the Anglican Communion Office in London who was speaking at ACOM’s first night of a two week teaching session at Lawson Tama for the re-launching of the Decade of and Renewal from 2017 – 2027.

Speaking to the crowd, he voiced that the re-launch is a period for them to be intentional about their faith in Jesus Christ and how that faith must have implications in their daily lives for the ten year period and beyond.

Rev Kafwanka emphasised that it is a time to renew and strengthen all members of the Anglican Church of Melanesia so that they can become more committed with their time, money, skills, knowledge, wisdom, courage, strength, understanding, patience, humility and the earthly possessions and properties for the sake of the Kingdom of God.

He explained that this is also a renewal period to help them to be in the right shape, right place and right relationship with God, with other people and the rest of creation.

His grace Archbishhop George Takeli declare the re-launching of the decade of evangelism & renewal with fellow bishops. Photos by Daniel Kakadi.

“That once the followers of Jesus are renewed then there will be renewal of families and family life, politics, government, business and industry; that God’s presence can be experienced and acknowledged by all in society, even those who do not believe in God, there is something special among these Anglican Christians,” said Rev Kafwanka.

He stressed that there is a need to rekindle their passion and love for Jesus so that they can appreciate what he has already done and is able to now do in and with their lives and mentioned that a personal relationship with Jesus shapes our understanding of his values, power and their part in it all.

Rev Kafwanka furthered that in Solomon Islands, there is the need to think of the 95 percent Christian population of all traditions and question ourselves of how this 95 percent Christian influences us in terms of our family life, business, industry, education, health, politics, government, media, work places in general, art, entertainment and leisure.

“If our answer is less than 50 percent, or less than 60 percent, or less than 70 percent, then something is seriously worrying,” he said.

Population served by Solomon Water expected to increase by 2047

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BY BARNABAS MANEBONA

POPULATION served by Solomon Water in Honiara and surrounding villages is projected to increase to approximately 295,000 people by 2047.

Solomon Water currently provides water services to 58,000 people in Honiara and surrounding areas in Guadalcanal according to their 30 Year Strategic Plan.

The increase is reported to be driven primarily by migration from the rural communities to urban areas and the provision of backlog services to existing communities.

Projected population increase over the next 30 years will have a significant impact on current water supply and wastewater systems including increased health, environmental and water quality impacts of wastewater discharge, the need for additional water sources due to increased water supply demand and the need to extend reticulation systems and improve the capacity of transfer systems.

Brain behind HYC official logo

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Mr Lemuel Steve Rauona holding up his designed logo that made legal for HYC- a youth-led organization in Honiara City.

BY LYNTON AARON FILIA

Mr Lemuel Steve Rauona holding up his designed logo that made legal for
HYC- a youth-led organization in Honiara City.

DESIGNING an official logo for the Honiara Youth Council would be Mr Lemuel Steve Rauona’s legacy for young people in Honiara as his contribution for youth development in Solomon Islands.

Mr Lemuel Steve Rauona is from the Central Youth of the South Sea Evangelical Church (CY-SSEC), and the HYC’s executive member are proud of his work in creating a logo for the HYC which will remain a legacy for generations to come.

Last week, HYC and relevant stakeholders in Honiara convened at the OG conference room to officially launch the logo, and the event begins a history for HYC and Mr Rauona – logo designer.

When asked what would be the one thing he will support young people in the community with, Rauona said, it is the logo because embedded is a thousand words which signifies inclusiveness of youths in Honiara.

Rauona is an artist with a background in abstract painting.

Over the years HYC has been in operation as an ad hoc entity which has raised confusion between Honiara City Council and Honiara Youth Council, which are two different bodies.

To clear out the confusion among organisations and youths within Honiara, HYC tasked Rauona to create a logo with instructions from the HYC executive and community youth group.

Due to time limitations, financial reasons and resources, HYC did away with the idea of a competition and had the executive select within its cycle instead.

The logo embodies a light green complexion to represent young people’s energy and amazing potentials for development both in the community and national level.

Inside the logo, reflected is the local and national government colour which symbolises HYC and community youth groups strong partnership towards youth development in the country.

In the centre, there is a HYC designed word flattered with a youth friendly style where the letter Y is drawn depicting a person flying, a reflection of young people.

HYC and young people are satisfied with the logo, and now it can be used in any form of their activities as youth-led organisation in the Honiara City to voice and channel their concerns to the local and national government.

Rauona said, he was humble and proud at the same time to take up the responsibility and used his artistry as his contribution to HYC and youths in Solomon Islands.

He said his drawing inside the logo speaks louder of youth’s inclusiveness toward economic and social development in Honiara or Solomon Islands as a whole.

Rauona adds that he was happy and thanked the HYC executive for the trust given to design the logo although challenging, he is happy that his work was noticed, all the more, involved in something like this.

He grew up to the artist that he is today, with interest in the art he does dating back to his primary school days up to his completion of secondary education at King George Sixth.

His specialty, abstract painting, became a passion and one which sprung strongly from influence of Mr Douglas Rae, who was a well-known artist and graphic designer in the country.

“I am not good at imagination but I’m good in observation,” Rauona said.

Recently, he attended a graffiti workshop facilitated by a renowned artist, Mr Justin also known as “Julla” who is a professional graffiti writer and street artist from Australia.

The workshop was organised by Oxfam Solomon Islands.

That was what made Mr Rauona today, and now he is slowly pushing his way up—dreaming of becoming a renowned artist in the country and region as well someday.

HYC launches social media network

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(L-R) HYC president Mr Harry James, Mrs Mary Tuhaika and Bobby Siarani during launching of the HYC Face Book page.

BY LYNTON AARON FILIA

(L-R) HYC president Mr Harry James, Mrs Mary Tuhaika and Bobby Siarani during launching of the HYC Face Book page.

YOUNG people can now get connected and interact with Honiara Youth Council anywhere in Solomon Islands through its social media which was launched last week.

On Friday last week, HYC launched its Facebook page named Honiara Youth Council with a photo profile of its newly launched official logo.

Since the launch last week, the page and the logo is now in use to disseminate information about HYC’s programmes and activities.

Creating a social media platform such as Facebook, HYC see as an important avenue for engaging young people.

HYC will use its social page to disseminate information about their works, service deliveries and exchange of ideas and interaction between young people

HYC President Mr Harry James Olikwailafa said the page is really useful for young people because some of the young people will use that page to get information, get opportunities that will be uploaded to the page.

“We feel that establishing social media page is one key media platform in the context of Solomon Islands to dissemination of information to young people,” Mr Olikwailafa said.

HCC-Youth Development Officer Mrs Mary Tuhaika said the social media platform HYC create is important for young people within Honiara to know about HYC as their legal body to voice their interests.

She said majority of youths accessing the internet live in Honiara and such platform is effective for young people to get information and connected with HYC.

Mrs Tuhaika adds HYC has created a social media arena to inform and will create more awareness among young people.

Also let other organisations and young people aware that there is a youth governing body existing in Honiara, represents youths’ voices to the local and national government and advocate on issues affecting young people, she said.

Content in the HYC’s Facebook page will consist of activities and programmes HYC has done, youth opportunities locally, regionally and internationally from other firm youth organisations.

There will also be news on the country’s current affairs, feature stories about youth achievements, community programme and campaigns of young people on their issues of concern.

HYC are calling individual young people and organizations in Solomon Islands to click LIKE on their Face Book page following the link: http://www.facebook.com/Honiara-Youth-Council

Craft market centre to complete in time for MACFest

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The craft market center taking shape at the Art gallery grounds
The craft market center taking shape at the Art gallery grounds

THE Craft Market Centre at the National Art Gallery grounds is expected to complete in time for the upcoming 6th Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival (MACFest) in July.

Construction of the facility began early this year and is expected to complete in the third week of June just before the opening of the festival on July 1.

The center will host the bulk of Traditional and Contemporary Arts exhibitions. This category includes sculptor (carving), weaving/ handicrafts, body ornamentation/ local jewellery, traditional currencies, tattooing, fire-walking, canoeing and navigational art, traditional healing, culinary arts , floral arts and pottery.

Visiting artists from Melanesia will join our local artists to exhibit their products during the 10 days festival.

“We are impressed with the progress of the project and we are confident it will complete in time for the upcoming festival,” said Chairman of the festival Programmes and Events and Director of Culture, Dennis Marita.

Mr Marita said the facility will provide a permanent home for our local arts and crafts practitioners in the near future.

“This is indeed a welcoming development for our arts and crafts industry. It will certainly provide a proper home for our arts and craft practitioners as well as a boost for our tourism industry,” Marita said.

He added that a Crafts Centre Management team will be established to manage and run the center to ensure that there is equal opportunities for those engaged in this sector to use this facility.

“The facility will certainly generate revenue for the government through rental by eligible vendors and relevant associations or charitable organisations and groups,” he added.

The project costs more than SB$10 million with fifty percent of the cost funded by the Solomon Islands Government, thirty percent by the Republic China on Taiwan and thirty percent from the EIF/EU Programme under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade.

–SIG, MSG & NOC JOINT PRESS

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