Fuel price stable

FUEL price for the month of May remains stable according to the price used by most of the fuel stations in the city. Fuel price is usually adjusted at the beginning of each month. And for the month of May, petrol and diesel is being sold at $8.54 and $8.43 respectively for most Honiara refueling…

Women opens Go-Money account

CLOSE to 20 market vendors mostly women from Kogu village on South Rannogah, Western Province have opened their ANZ go-Money account during an one day Go-Money awareness at the village on Tuesday. ANZ sales team visited Kongu village to carry out the ANZ go-Money awareness. The awareness aims to help women vendors to save money…

Call to attend strategy tourism launch

Permanent Secretary (PS) for the Ministry Culture and Tourism (MCT) John Wasi urges tourism operators and general public in Honiara to attend the official launching of the   Solomon Islands National Tourism Development Strategy today. Prime Minister (PM) Manasseh Sogavare will attend the official launching today at the National Museum compound this morning. The strategy is…

Rosefelo back on track

Solomon Islands long distance running athlete, Rosefelo Siosi is back on track after a week break due being sick during the Oceania Area Championship in Australia.  Last week Rosefelo confirmed he won’t be participating in the 2015 Oceania Area championship because he felt sick and had to be exempted from running. He told Star Sports…

Mayor assists Naha FC

Honiara City Mayor and Councillor for Naha ward Alfrence Fatai has stepped into to assist the Naha football club (FC) with new sports equipment recently. The assistance was handed over in a brief ceremony at Naha. As a councillor responsible for Naha ward Fatai said, he was glad to provide such assistance for the club…

Warriors back on second spot

THE Honiara Football Association (HFA) league defending champions, Solomon Warriors FC is back on the second spot in the HFA premier division tally after a slight drop following the previous weekend’s 1-0 defeat to Northern United. Warriors retained the second position with 29 points, five points behind leaders KOSSA FC who maintained its pole position…

Nauru produces world’s strongest man

YAREN, (DIGICEL) – Nauru’s world champion powerlifter, Jezza Uepa, set a new world record at the recent 2015 Pacific Invitational championships in Australia. Held at the Health and Fitness centre in Melbourne, the Digicel sponsored team produced some high quality lifting and broke two world records – officially making Jezza one of the world’s strongest…

All The Best, Semi: Ryan

LONDON, (FIJI SUN) – Vodafone Fijian 7s star Semi Kunatani has signed a two-year deal with France club, Toulouse. And coach Ben Ryan has wished him well. Ryan also anticipated his continued involvement next season as well as the 2016 Rio Olympics. “Semi goes with our blessing and we wish him all the best next…