Buala police have arrested eight suspects during an investigation operation on Hograno, Katova, Kia, and Havulei (HKKH) constituencies in Isabel province recently. The nine-day investigation operation was targeted for new reported cases during the month of October 2024. Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Isabel Province, Inspector Harry Vanosi, said a total of eight new cases…
The Solomon Islands and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) today, Thursday 7th November officially signed an agreement on Mutual Visa Exemption for ordinary passports holders from both countries to travel freely. The signing ceremony between the Solomon Islands Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Hon. Peter Shanel Agovaka, and PRC Ambassador, His Excellency Cai Weiming…
IT has emerged that a Caretaker Cabinet approved the DOCA deal with Hall Chadwick liquidators in February 2024 – just two months before the joint elections in April this year. By then, the DCGA government – under the leadership of Manasseh Sogavare – was already in a caretaker mode after the 11th Parliament rose on 31…
THE President of the World Taekwondo Solomon Islands Philip Afu has slammed the Solomon Islands Taekwondo Federation (SITF) Executive members who were elected recently as unconstitutionally elected. The SITF-affiliated Taekwondo clubs in Honiara on Sunday 27 October elected the new executive based on the SITF Constitution that was passed in 2023. The story of the…
A ROTARY club in Australia has donated a number of vital triage medical diagnostic kits to the Western Provincial Gizo Hospital. The donated kits worth thousands of dollars were personally delivered by Colin Scobie Redcliffe Sunrise Rotary Club Vice President to the hospital administration on Friday 1 November. The kits were received by the Western Provincial Health Director Dr Dickson…
THE radiography service at the Gizo Hospital in the Western Provincial Capital is currently out of service due to technical issues with its only x-ray machine. This was confirmed to Solomon Star by the Western Provincial Health Director Dr Dickson Boara on Friday. “Yes, the x-ray machine is not working at the moment,” he said briefly when asked by…
BURI Community High School (CHS) in North Ranoggah, Western Province, plans to introduce its first form six in 2025. That’s according to the School Principal Owen Kelly Bulehite following the school’s annual graduation recently. He said this was a long time wish for the school board, administration and the community. Principal Bulehite said, work on completing the…
The Institute of Solomon Islands Accountants (ISIA) has initiated implementation of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) requirements on its public practitioners starting in 2024 onwards. This means that members of the Institute who are registered as public practitioners will be required to submit records of their CPD activities and hours at the end of this year…
AN Anglican deacon has called on communities in Tulagi and the entire Central Islands Province to take ownership of the renovated Tulagi Hospital facilities by taking care of them. Reverend Charles Sagulige made the call in his speech at the handing over of the renovated facilities under Phase One of the World Bank-funded Tulagi Hospital…
RESIDENTS of the Gold Ridge and Turarana areas in Central Guadalcanal will no longer need to cross the Tinahulu River by foot. Early this week, they celebrated the opening of a new multi-million-dollar bridge at Tinahulu. It was constructed by Wanguo International Mining Group Limited in collaboration with the Ministry of Infrastructure Development using tax…