Women’s professional network launched

Australia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon Julie Bishop joined women in Honiara in marking the first ever networking association for women of Solomon Islands on Tuesday. Pioneering members of the Solomon Islands Professional Women’s Network (SIPNET) –a platform for women to network, establish relationship, support each other and work towards common goals – were honoured…

More students graduate from PAU

Eleven (11) students from Solomon Islands have graduated at Pacific Adventist University (PAU) on Sunday 4th December 2016. Those who successfully graduated with their respective degrees were; – Alex Mamaka from Choiseul Province (Bachelor in Business- Accounting & Computing),; – Leecrish Joseph from Western Province (Bachelor in Secondary Education); – Rosemary Tobani from Guadalcanal Province(Bachelor…

Q3 visitor arrivals continuein positive mode

THE country’s tourism industry has closed off Q3 in positive mode with international visitor arrival figures for the nine-month period January – September showing a solid 4.5 per cent increase over the corresponding period in 2015. Official figures released by the Solomon Islands National Statistics Office this week show a total of 16,381 visitors arrived…

Opposition: Increase agriculture allocation

OPPOSITION Leader, Jeremiah Manele says the government needs to increase its allocation in the 2017 budget to the agriculture sector. Manele pointed this out in Parliament yesterday after the government allocated only $45m to the sector. He said they need to increase the budget allocations to the agriculture sector especially for cocoa, coconut and kava…

Archaeologists find huge amounts of lithic products in East Are’Are

THE Solomon Islands National Museum is proposing a special exhibition for materials excavated from a site at Apunirereha, East Are’Are in Malaita Province. These materials were excavated under an archaeological cooperation project between the Solomon Islands National Museum (SINM) and the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures of the German Archaeological Institute which started in…

Ifunaoa leads golden boot race

The race for the golden boot title experienced a sudden twist in ranks following Solomon Warriors FC goal galore against West Honiara on Wednesday. Warriors striker, Dennis Ifunaoa replaced Western United FC’s striker, James Naka to take the lead with 25 goals. Ifunaoa with the support of team mates scored 10 goals in yesterday’s match…

Inter-tertiary soccer into quarter

THE 2016 inter-tertiary soccer competition enters its quarter final playoffs, Thursday. This was after other pool final matches were played on Wednesday except for the final pool match between SINU 1 and Alafua. This match will be played today at 9am before the quarter final matches set off. Wednesday’s games were proven tough as team’s…

WARRIORS IN CONTROL

The Telekom S-league defending champions, Solomon Warriors moved back to the top of the TSL table following their 13-3 win against West Honiara FC at the Lawson Tama Stadium yesterday. Warriors now has 32 points followed by Western United FC on second place with 31 points and Marist FC on third place with 29 points.…