DEAR EDITOR – The recent tragic disaster hit some parts of our country has led our leaders to drain public money to their own pockets and for their own good. I was not in Honiara or Guadalcanal but imagine how those people will need immediate assistance when their needs are all different and cannot be…
DEAR EDITOR – I wish to refer to an unnecessarily lengthy bluff by Johnson Teika which appeared in the local papers, Sunday 6th April 2014. The author is actually a frustrated nobody who tugs at the wrong end of the rope all by himself that even members of his own family whose support he claims…
The Honiara Football Association pre-season competition kicks off today with two first matches. First up will be San Jorge Thunders FC taking on GFC at 2pm followed by Rivantor Hunters FC and Henderson Eels FC at 4pm. Both matches will be played at the king George Sixth School Northern Soccer field. These are the only…
The Namson Tran pre-season basketball tournament will resume tomorrow. There will be four matches with the Lakers women’s basketball team taking on El Divas for the opening match at 1pm, followed by Crusaders and the U19 at 2pm, Andel and Defenders at 3pm for the women and MMTM and Travel Blazers to wrap up the…
Team in high spirit to take out Waitakere. The Solomon Islands football club champions, the Solomon Warriors FC will know whether to make it past the group stage or a first round exit in the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Champions League when they take on Waitakere FC of New Zealand today. Known to every Warriors…
COMMUNITY services of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church had received huge support from the public and church members following a disaster appeal. The church erected a tent at Kukum SDA car-park Tuesday this week for public appeal to assist in whatever people want to donate to the flood victims. The appeal kicked off on Tuesday night…
WHEN Solomon Islands sent a team to the Hong Kong 7s for the first time in 1983, one of the key players was Leonard Pugeva whose family and the rugby community are mourning. Leonard died in the raging torrents of the flashflood of the Matanikau river on Thursday last week and his body, and those…
A MAN who stole a mobile phone from his employer’s home while working as a security officer has received a suspended sentence on Thursday. Lynsando Feni Daudau, also known as Kwaidorai, has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for one count of simple larceny. Principal Magistrate Jim Seuika however suspended in full the prison term…
THE Director of Public Prosecutions is greatly concern about securing its witnesses’ attendance in an upcoming murder trial in relation to the brutal killing of a man in East Guadalcanal back in 2011. This was after the DPP office was informed on Friday that its witnesses have been threatened by on the run suspects in…
A PRE-TRIAL conference will be held on Patmos Island arson case on April 30, in the Honiara Magistrates’ Court. The hearing however, will be conducted only on two of the five accused namely Iro Asilaua, 22, and George Malua, 19. Twenty year-olds Adrian Smith Malua and Ama Adomi together with George Asilaua, 22, are under…