Submits your acquittal report or face serious actions GOVERNEMNT through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) has issued a strong warning to all tourism operators who have benefited from the 2014 tourism funds to submit their acquittal reports to the ministry or will be dealt with accordingly. Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of…
Five provincial Members of the Western Provincial Assembly (MPA) are in for the race s in this year’s General Election. Despite criticism and questions from their wards reports reaching the paper said they have been to Honiara to visit and conform their intention with one political party – United Democratic Party. The intending candidates include…
Western provincial assembly last week passed an additional $4.5 million dollar. The supplementary amount of just under five million dollar is to cover costs and service up until the next budget session which is due to take place March of 2015. Lestor Saomasi provincial finance minister presented the estimates at the full Assembly meeting. He…
The Western provincial executive took a sudden decision at the end of the midterm review of the Western Provincial Full Assembly meeting by appointing a new deputy premier. Winding off the Sine die motion on Friday afternoon last week Hon. Robert Pae Kuve Premier of Western Province announced to the surprise of the sitting MPA’s…
A THREE days workshop on Gender Based Violence (GBV) was successfully conducted in Malaita province last Thursday. About 25 nurses, church women leaders and chiefs from Kilu’ufi hospital and communities around Auki attended the workshop. The workshop focused on gender based violence issue and how to prevent it from affecting women and young girls in…
Their joy was uncontained. It was written all over their faces. It was evident in the chiefly welcome they gave Axiom KB Chief Executive Officer Ryan Mount and his delegation from Honiara. It was heard in their melodious singing in church and expressed in the island feasting and cultural dancing that followed the Axiom KB…
Axiom KB has pledged to support the Kalaenga community school in Sepi Village in Isabel Province with a completion of a permanent classroom and a permanent chapel. Axiom KB Chief Executive Officer Mr Ryan Mount made the pledge when he visited Sepi last Friday for a special thanksgiving service following the High Court ruling upholding…
Ten communities in Makira Ulawa province will benefit from a new Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project including two schools and one health clinic. The new WASH project funded by UNICEF and Australian NGO Cooperation Program, aims to assist children and families in Makira benefit from equitable and sustainable access to safe drinking, water and…
In order to fight against dengue fever in Solomon Island, the Government of the Republic of China(Taiwan) has worked in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Medical Service, Solomon Island to build up the first bio-safety level 2(BSL-2) laboratory equipped with high standard equipments at National Referral Hospital (NRH) in Honiara . To bring…