Reviving Athletics

City Athletics Association to be revived AFTER years of inactivity, plans are currently underway for the revival of the Honiara Athletics Association. With that, a meeting is being scheduled to take place this Saturday 23rd July, at the Multi-purpose hall conference room from 10am to 12pm. The proposer of the meeting was former Solomon Islands…

School sports carnival call

AS the hosting of the 2023 Pacific Games is within the next seven years, calls for the country to gear up its preparation is intensifying. The latest was the revival of the annual sports carnival for schools throughout the country. Honiara resident Ben Didiomea said there is a need to revive the games to prepare…

Team Malaita to celebrate in Auki

Malaita athletes living in Honiara has left the capital on Thursday for Auki. Reports reaching Star Sports says the players and officials who represented Malaita province during the recent Solomon Games boarded MV Kosco to Auki Thursday evening to attend their closing ceremony. The closing ceremony will be hosted today in Auki Town to officially…

My Magazine’s support acknowledged

Sports men and women in Central Marovo, Western province have acknowledged My Magazine Director Dekon Koung and his associate sponsors for hosting the Marovo Open Challenge. Marovo Open Challenge featured soccer seven a-side, netball and volleyball which was staged at Busuana village in Central Marovo, Western province. Reports reaching Star Sports stressed the competition was…

Church organise soccer league for kids

More than 120 children from six 6 different communities within Asimeuri South Seas Evangelical Church (SSEC) association took part in the Asimeuri SSEC Association children’s ministry Gudnius club 2016 soccer league. The opening event of the league was held at Roone Village, Small Malaita on Thursday 30th June 2016. Association secretary Pr. Laban Lole, Roone…

Dive Munda shortlisted for Global Awards

LOCAL tourist destination Dive Munda has been shortlisted for the 2016 Luxury Travel Guide Global Awards. This was according to a statement from the organization this week. “Dive Munda is super proud to announce that we have been shortlisted for the 2016 Luxury Travel Guide Global Awards,” it says. According to the statement, the tourist…

Hip-hop dance festival today

A HIP-HOP dance festival is set to go down Friday at the National Art Gallery grounds, Honiara, starting at 12 noon. This festival is a fundraiser for the winning Solomon Islands hip-hop dance crews who will be representing the country in this year’s World Supremacy Battlegrounds in Sydney Australia, from September 9th-11th. The three winning…

Justice for son

Dear Editor – I refer to an article on the front page of Issue No. 6318 dated Thursday 30th June, 2016 –“ PM:  FEAR NOT – Sogavare tells the nation to trust armed aops”. This good news for the nation came out to the public just four days following the death of my dear son,…

DCCG on the go

Dear Editor – The DCCG’s action plan mission to address the ethnic tension crises related claims step by step and bit by bit as sounded by the DPM which do not go down well with the doctor in the Independent group Dr Derick  Sikua was a good move taken by determined leaders, true real leaders…