THE Provincial Police Commander, Western province, Chief Superintendent Mathias Lenialu has commended the people of the province for their good behaviour resulting in very peaceful Easter celebrations.

“I want to thank the church leaders, community leaders, elders and chiefs, for making sure that this Easter season was celebrated in peace and unity,” says Lenialu.

“I also want to extend my words of thanks to men, women, young people, children and every one for celebrating Easter responsibly reflecting on the meaning of the occasion.”

“I want to acknowledge the good people of Western Province for celebrating this Easter festive season in the true spirit of Easter. There were no major incidents reported during the long weekend.”

–POLICE MEDIA

BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE

NORTH Guadalcanal’s Paramount Chief of Thimbo tribe is calling on Gaobata, Malango and Baohomea Houses of Chiefs to work together with Guadalcanal provincial office and Levers to address land issue in Lungga and Tenaru areas.

Chief Benedict Garimane stressed that while there is plain view of people clearing the land or engaged in some activities or development, this can be problematic because they don’t know who the rightful authority is that is giving people the green light to carry out such activities.

He added that he raises the concern of authority because people settling in Lungga and Tenaru are divided into three sets of people which include those who claimed to be original landowners, those who claimed land from Patrick Wong and those who claimed land from Guadalcanal provincial office.

Henceforth, Garimane emphasised that he fears this will somehow result in rivalry which may possibly lead to arguments and result in things we don’t want to see happening in North Guadalcanal.

“Maybe what should happen at this stage is that RIPEL must stop in continuing to sell the land, G-Province must stop allocating the land and look at a way forward that will bring us peace and unity amongst people who live there,” he said.

Garimane of Ngaliamera village reiterates his call for the three parties to work together to find a solution that will help address this issue of land authority in Lungga and Tenaru area.

BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE

IF the national government is transparent and accountable to its people, then they should release information of how members of parliament spend their constituency funds, if not then forget the Anti-Corruption Bill.

These words were expressed by Paramount Chief Benedict Garimane of Ngaliamera, North Guadalcanal.

The Chief of Thimbo tribe highlighted that while he understands that the government has played its role in providing financial assistance to the constituency to help spur development in areas such as scholarships, water, sanitation and infrastructure, they don’t see the outcome of this assistance on the ground.

“I understand that the government has played its part in providing assistance so why don’t we see this on the ground,” he said

Garimane stressed that they have not seen any development in the constituency spanning from the rule of their former MP who took office for two terms to their current Member of Parliament, Hon Samson Maneka.

He calls on the national government to release information that will reveal how their former and current MPs have used government assistance throughout the constituency.

“So that we can see how they spent the money in areas such as in education, health, the church, schools and so forth,” said Garimane.

He also stated that it would be pointless for the government to bring the Anti-Corruption bill forward if they lack transparency thus disallow the release of such information.

Garimane again calls on the government to reveal how their MPs have spent government allocated funds in North Guadalcanal constituency for the past 11 and half years.

“While we are still waiting for this bill to pass in parliament the government must be transparent,” he said.

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BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO

THE ongoing programme to have clinics open until late has allowed the Honiara City Council (HCC) to have more medical doctors.

The initiative is being piloted at the Kukum clinic.

This was reported to this paper during an exclusive interview with the HCC Nursing services Manger Mr Arain Simbe.

He said the initiative has created an opportunity for HCC to now have seven doctors responsible for the Council’s three zones; eastern, central and western.

Simbe said the increase in HCC’s number of doctors helps against the huge queues of patients at the clinics.

“This opportunity helped nurses working in the three particular zones to have senior physicians assisting them in terms of increased life expectancy and improved well-being in society, dedication of skills for patient cure concerning diseases such as cancer for instance and giving persons diagnosed with terminal illnesses hope of living longer.

“They as well assisted in providing information which contain epidemic when disease outbreak occurred, also work to provide new cures for diseases, running drug tests on consenting patients and alerting the public regarding spreading of diseases to name a few,” he said

Moreover he stressed employing more doctors have been part and passion of HCC strategy to help assist nurses who work during the overlap shift from 7pm till 11pm.

Last week, deputy mayor of HCC Charles Aiwosuga acknowledged the success of the initiative and thanked public for their part in cooperating with the clinic staff.

He reported that there have been positive feedbacks to the initiative, adding that with the success of the pilot programme at Kukum, HCC is eyeing doing the same for Rove clinic.

This is said to be good news for the people of west Honiara.

POLICE in Kirakira in the Makira-Ulawa province are investigating an alleged unlawful damage incident which occurred at Ulahu Village, Ugi Island on April 3, 2018.

“It was alleged that a group of drunken youth damaged two tents that are used as temporary classrooms for students at Ulahu Extension School,” says Provincial Police Commander, Makira Ulawa Province, Superintendent Peter Sitai.

“There are about 30 – 40 early childhood students attending the extension school and those tents were donated to the school by the National Disaster Management office (NDMO) after the school buildings collapsed during the 2016 earth quake.

“This incident has victimised these young children from their education, and I want to make a call to the people of Ulahu to come forward with information that may assist Police in their investigation into the matter.”

Police in Kirakira can be contacted through phone 50299.

–POLICE MEDIA