CROC PUNCHED

Young boy in stable condition A 10-year-old from Jejevo Katova district, in Isabel province is lucky to be alive after he was attacked multiple times by a crocodile while floating on a tire tube on Friday. Kingstone Siofi was swimming with his friends on a floating tube when the deadly beast emerged from nowhere and…

Narrow defeat for Solo

SOLOMON Islands men’s basketball team was defeated by host Fiji in their second match of the FIBA Melanesian Basketball Cup tournament in Fiji yesterday. The national men’s basketball team went down 66-57 to Fiji at the Vodafone Arena. It was an outstanding performance by Solomon Islands against the 2017 Melanesia Cup bronze medalists. By the…

AUSTRALIA IN ACTION

Canberra announces new aid funding to Solomon Islands as it moves to build a stronger Pacific family AUSTRALIA will provide an estimated AUD$169-Million in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) to Solomon Islands in 2022-23, including AUD$103-Million bilaterally, the Australian High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, Dr Lachlan Strahan announced, Thursday. This announcement comes as Canberra pledges to…