SOLOMON Airline is set to conduct two international flights to Brisbane on the 6th and 20th of this month. In a statement issued yesterday, the Airline management said that the two passenger flights have been approved only from Honiara to Brisbane. “We have been approved to carry passengers on two flights from Honiara to Brisbane…
THE Japanese Ambassador to Solomon Island has announced that his government would provide an ISUZU garbage truck under its grassroots project to Malaita Provincial Government. H.E. Yasuhiro Morimoto revealed that the garbage truck costs SBD$642,000. The Malaita Provincial Government and the Japanese Embassy yesterday signed the grant contract agreement to formalize the project. During the…
QUESTIONS are being asked as to whether the initial design of the Government’s Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) took into account strategic considerations critical to long term returns on the overall tax-payer-funded $320 million investment. “Has the initial design for example embraced target sectors, the level of the proposed investment and returns from those sectors, the…
POLICE Chief Mostyn Mangau has assured members of the public that there is no police front liner protest over unpaid Covid-19 allowances as reported in the media, Thursday. He made this clarification to reporters yesterday at his weekly conference at Rove Police Headquarters. “I want to assure the members of the public that there is…
MPs await RCDF funds from China By ANDREW FANASIANewsroom, Honiara THE politicians will pocket their shares of the Rural Constituency Development Fund (RCDF) contributions of SBD$1.8 million from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) anytime soon. This was revealed by a reliable source within the government. The source who spoke to this paper in anonymity…