PRIME MINISTER Manasseh Sogavare is in Kira Kira today [Wednesday] to officially open the first Buying Centre under a $13.5 million Revitalisation of the Commodities Exporting & Marketing Authority (CEMA) announced last year. Mr. Sogavare’s 10-member delegation, which flew out of Honiara this morning [Wednesday], consisted of all the MPs from Makira/Ulawa Province as well…
PRIME Minister (PM) Manasseh Sogavare calls on foreign countries, institutions and organizations to stop labelling Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands nations as their ‘backyard’. He expressed this in Parliament on Tuesday to wind up the motion to acknowledge the speech from the throne by His Excellency Governor General Sir David Vunagi. He said the term ‘Backyard’ is very insulating and disrespectful. He highlighted…
MORE than 5,500 jobs are set to be created with the construction of a major tuna processing plant in Solomon Islands that will provide economic security for the Pacific Islands nation and its people into the future. A statement from International Finance Corporation (IFC) yesterday said the Bina Harbour Tuna Processing Plant, to be built under…