THE national economy is growing and the government’s finance has been sound in the last two months. This economic growth and financial stability were recorded after the country came out of the COVID-19 pandemic and Honiara November 2021 Riot. The Ministry of Finance and Treasury (MoFT) Permanent Secretary Dentana Mckinnie told a press conference on…
THE Western Province Member of Provincial Assembly for Ward 7, Rence Sore said political leaders, especially candidates and Party Wing Leaders, should be careful about what they utter during the campaigns. MPA Sore was addressing a gathering at Barokoma during the People’s First Party Candidate Campaign launch last week. He said he and the people…
SOLOMON Airlines is expected to resume its weekly service to Kagau in North East Choiseul today after the airport was temporarily closed few weeks ago. Initial reports said the airport, which is situated on a privately owned island, was temporarily closed some time ago due to a theft incident. Because of the incident, it was…
LOOKING at the political history of instability in the country, how differently would your party lead our country from the past government? Dr Alice Pollard posed this question to a team of panelist during ‘Voice Blo U’ – an audience-led interactive session in Honiara recently. In his response to the question, Vice President of the…
FORMER Member of Parliament for West Honiara Constituency, Namson Tran has denied claims of purchasing land through corrupt means. The former Chairman of Caucus took a stand against baseless accusations made by opposing candidate Wilson Mamae and the leader of the Coalition for Accountability Reform and Empowerment (CARE) party during their recent campaign. “They alleged…
THE Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) and Save the Children Solomon Islands (SCSI) on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing their education partnership to progress the priorities of the National Education Action Plan (NEAP) 2022-2026. The MOU was signed by Permanent Secretary, Dr Franco Rodie and SCSI Country Director Lisa…