NATIONAL soccer striker, Benjamin Totori has once again proved his class internationally by scoring and helping his club Waitakere United seal a 2-0 win over O-League newcomers, Kiwi FC of Samoa on Wednesday. The electrifying pace setter in Totori made his presence felt within the opposing team instantly dribbling his way into the Kiwi FC…
SOLOMON Islands Club Champions and O-league reps, Solomon Warriors were on Wednesday edged 1: 2 by Tahitian Club Champions AS Pirae in their nail biting encounter. Two goals inside 12 minutes in the first stanza were enough to seal all three points for the Tahitians over their Solomon Islands opponents who had fought back strongly…
BRISBANE based PNG singer/song writer, Jagarizzar has over the weekend teamed up with Solomon Islands reggae sensations DMP in organising a concert for flood victims of the Honiara flash floods. Not only that but the musicians have took time out to approach other Pacific Islanders in Brisbane to help out the thousands now homeless in…
POPULAR local boyband DMP will this weekend hold a concert for victims of last week’s tragic flash flooding, in Sydney, Australia. The band is expected to travel to Sydney on Friday where they will put on an additional show purposely for victims of Honiara’s devastating flash floods which have already claimed 23 lives and left…
ANZ has announced that it would donate SBD$200, 000 (approximately AUD$30,000) relief effort in the country. The donation will be channelled through World Vision to support disaster relief work following last week’s devastating floods. A statement from the bank said ANZ’s donation to World Vision International in the Solomon Islands will be used to support…
DAMAGES done to infrastructures in North West Guadalcanal has impacted on local farmers in the area. Since last Thursday’s flooding, most of the bridges in that area have been ripped off making it extremely difficult for farmers to bring their produce to Honiara. A North West Guadalcanal farmer John Maeli who owns a farm at…
LAST week’s devastating flood had negatively impacted on many farmers in Honiara and parts of Guadalcanal. One of the farmers based in White River, West Honiara is Elizabeth Suimae whose melon plot was affected by the flood. Speaking to the Solomon Star early this week at the central market Ms Suimae said that flood last…
Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) CEO, Josefa ‘Jo’ Tuamoto has ensured the watching world is being kept fully up to date with all developments taking place in the Solomon Islands as the nation begins the arduous task of cleaning up after last week’s tumultuous events. In a secondary statement issued on Wednesday, Mr Tuamoto has…
Since the washing away of the old Mataniko bridge in Chinatown last Thursday vehicles and pedestrians have been badly affected by the cut-off. For over nearly a week the public have to travel further by foot and vehicle and crossed the main Mataniko bridge inorder to reach the Point Cruz area or Chinatown. And this…
The East Malaita region which was affected by last week’s flash floods has called on the national disaster management office (NDMO) to carryout assessment on the remote region. In October last year, the region was also badly affected by flood and was declared a disaster zone where they were aided with relief supplies. Eight months…