AUSTRALIAN firm Axiom Mining has appointed experienced legal adviser to mining and exploration companies Robert Barraket as non-executive chairman. He is currently the chairman and partner of Barraket Stanton Lawyers in Sydney and has 50 years’ experience in legal practice including the establishment of two successful legal firms. Stephen Williams will step down after five…
THE court last Friday granted bail for the gold dealer facing conversions charges of more than $400,000 in relation to allegations in 2014. Michael Bosa was released on a cash bail of $500 with strict conditions attached. The conditions restricted him leaving Honiara town boundary, to report to Tetere police post in East Guadalcanal once…
GUADALCANAL provincial executive has threatened to take legal action against MS Finay Building Construction Firm to resolve a pending dispute over disparities in bill charges for the construction work at its headquarters at Kukum, east Honiara. The dispute over the bill charge and none payment by the Guadalcanal Provincial Government saw a halt to the…
Suva, Fiji – The Pacific Community (SPC) is offering its prayers and practical assistance as Fiji rallies to assess the scale of the impact of tropical cyclone Winston. The Pacific Community Director-General, Dr Colin Tukuitonga, has written to Fiji’s Foreign Affairs Minister, the Hon. Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, offering to deploy specialist SPC teams to assist…
THE Parliamentary Opposition Group has called on the Prime Minister to move to the official residence of the Prime Minister better known as the Red House at Vavaea Ridge overlooking Central Honiara. In a press statement, Thursday, the Opposition group said the Prime Minister must do so now by moving out from his private government…
THE Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in their active campaign to curb crime has employed a proactive policing program. RSIPF is training young people with music lessons at the Saint Albans Parish at Tandai, West Honiara. Police Commissioner Frank Prendergast said this is one of the on-going programs as part of the RSIPF crime…
Waste Management has been and still is a big issue for Honiara and other urban centers in the country. Education and awareness-raising on how rubbish is created and how to properly dispose and manage it is an area that REP-HCC has embarked in partnership with Solomon Islands Development Trust (SIDT) since last year. This is…
JAPAN and members of the Forum Fisheries Agency have agreed to sustain targeted cooperation in the fisheries sector within the Pacific Islands region. Senior Fisheries officials from Tuvalu and Kiribati together with Director General James Movick and senior officers of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) met this week in Honiara with a high-level team from…
SUVA, (FIJI TIMES) – A television group recorded unaudited revenue of $5.1million (US$2.3 million) for the first six months of its 2016 financial year. This is 29 per cent increase for Fiji Television Group Ltd with its first six months ending this month compared with the same period last year. Fiji TV also recorded a…
MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Ngella constituency and Minister of Culture and Tourism, Bartholomew Parapolo has taken delivery of 11 new fiberglass canoes for his constituency. Mr Parapolo took delivery of the fiberglass canoes from RM Engineering and Fiberglass firm which manufactured the products. The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) under Rural Development Department under…