SDA host bush fire fundraisings

The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church has organised a series of fundraising drives in Honiara following the request by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to the Solomon Islands Christian Association (SICA) for Christian denominations in the country to support the government assist Australian bushfire victims.  A special steering committee headed by Pr Robinson Diosi district…

Rodie on International Education Day theme  

THE theme of the 2020 International Education day is ‘Learning for people, planet, prosperity and peace’.   Permanent secretary of the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development  Franco Rodie said the theme reiterates that education and learning enables is humanity’s greatest renewable resource and reaffirm the role of education as a fundamental right and a…

Delay irks magistrate 

A HONIARA magistrate has refused to accept police’s excuse for the delay caused in a murder case that happened early this year at East Guadalcanal. This was after Principal Magistrate Fatima Taeburi was informed by the prosecutor that police could not produce photographs obtained during post mortem. This was because police ran out of the…

FLOOD KILLS LOGGER   

RSIPF warns public to take extra care during current wet weather By MOFFAT MAMU   AN Asian man working for a logging company has been crashed to death during heavy flooding in West Guadalcanal last week. A statement from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) said the 58-year-old Malaysian man was carried away when…