HISTORICAL VISIT

High level delegation from China arrives tomorrow SOLOMON ISLANDS will this week welcome the first and historic visit by China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister His Excellency Wang Hi, who is due to arrive in Honiara tomorrow. It is Mr. Wang’s first visit since Solomon Islands and China established diplomatic relations in September 2019. He…

Kologeto ends constituency visit

AFTER spending several days with his people of Southeast Vella Constituency, Western Province Member of Parliament (MP) Fredrick Koloqeto has successfully concluded his visit. He arrived on Wednesday and successfully conducted a number of consultations with his people and made visits to project sites. Part of the consultation was to inform communities of his intention…

CIP Premier: Wharf project must be of quality

THE Central Provincial Premier Stanley Manetiva wants the contractor of the newly wharf project at Tulagi to construct a complete quality wharf. He made this statement following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Thursday last week, between the Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID) and Central Islands Province at the MID office in…

MPs PAID FOR LOYALTY

SOME $1.75 million were allegedly ‘doled’(paid) out to Malaitan MPs to remain with the DCGA government following last November’s riot and burning and the subsequent vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in early December, sources have claimed. If the claims are true, it means each of the seven Malaitan MPs collected a…