PROTEST THREAT

JUST as Honiara-based members of the Solomon Islands Nurses Association (SINA) have returned to work after a two-day lightning sit-in protest, another group of frontline workers has threatened staging a similar sit-in protest. Police officers on frontline duties in the emergency zone, which covers the area between Alligator Creek in east Honiara to Poha River…

Bech-de-mer seized 

Ontong Javans livelihood snatched again By ANDREW FANASIAHoniara Newsroom BECH-DE-MER valued at over $500,000 was confiscated in the early morning hours of yesterday at the Honiara wharf by officers from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force. This paper was tipped by a lawyer on Tuesday night that…