Politics
NO SECOND THOUGHTS
SIUP claims to join CARE on a mutual basis” BY CAROL-ANNE SULEGA THE Unity Party (UP) has officially teamed up…
GDL says UP’s move is not a gain. Will Lilo opt to have no camp ties?
BY CAROL-ANNE SULEGA GORDON Darcy Lilo, the Member of Parliament (MP) elect for Central Honiara and Parliamentary wing leader of…
Heritage Park Hotel current hotspot
GDL: ‘We are consulting” BY CAROL-ANNE SULEGA SOLOMON Islands Party for Rural Advancement (SIPRA) Parliamentary wing leader and Member of…
INTENSE LOBBYING BATTLE UNFOLDS
Lobbying intensifying in Auki as two camps vie govt BY SAMIE WAIKORI LOBBYING is intensifying between two political camps in…
Sports
SI Netball Coach lauds Team’s performance
BY INDY MAEALASIA SOLOMON Islands Netball’s Coach is confident that her team has greatly improved despite suffering a heavy loss…
Solomon Islands Men’s Rugby 7s Team Ends Pacific Games Journey in Quarterfinals
By EDDIE OSIFELO The journey of Solomon Islands’ men’s rugby 7s team at the XVII Pacific Games came to a…
We lost our game, but still proud of our team efforts: Masaea
BY JENNIFER KUSAPA DESPITE the loss in in their final game against Tonga, Alex Masaea, a thirty-year-old player representing the…
ANOTHER PROBLEM
Security firms urges GOC to release upfront payment for mobilisation BY NED GAGAHE Several security firms contracted to provide their…
Letters
Violence as a Human Rights abuse
DEAR EDITOR, A worrying number of women in the Solomon Islands experience domestic violence. Statistics have shown almost 64% of…
Violation of Human Rights
Dear Editor, As a concerned citizen of this country, I strongly urge our government to recognize the rights of persons…
Chinese companies and domestic politics
AN OBSERVER THE row between the national government and the Malaita Provincial Government (MPG) has degenerated to a level that…
VIEWPOINT- Virivolomo and his misconstrued facts
CELSUS TALIFILU Brisbane AVIATION Permanent Secretary Moses Virivolomo’s attempt to denounce what was said about his conduct in Auki…
Local News
Omission of s.66 (1) of the repealed act from the new electoral law demoralises lawyers
By Alfred Sasako THE absence of section 66(1) in the new Electoral Act 2018 is reportedly having a demoralising effect…
63 in total
Curfew day-two nets 10 – commissioner praises citizens for their behaviour By Alfred Sasako ACTING Police Commissioner, Mostyn Mangau, has…
High Commissioner in Fiji deals with stranded nationals
By EDDIE OSIFELO A number of Solomon Islands nationals are currently stranded in Fiji as a result of cancellation of…
Curfew nets 53
By Alfred Sasako FIFTY-THREE people, four of them women, were arrested for allegedly breaching emergency rules under the 8pm-5am curfew,…
Quarantine sites cleared
BY PETER ZOLEVEKE II COVID-19 Institutional Quarantine Facilities (IQFs) in Honiara have been vacated following the release of the remaining…
Relative calls for thorough and transparent investigation into sea tragedy
By Alfred Sasako AS authorities pored through details of what went wrong in the sea tragedy involving the West Are’Are…