Aqorau farwells PNA

Solomon Islander DR TRANSFORM AQORAU officially leaves Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) this Sunday where he was chief executive officer (CEO) for the last five years. Below was his farewell statement made at the 11th Annual PNA Ministerial meeting on Kiritimati Island, Kiribati, Tuesday this week: IT is indeed an honour to be making…

What about our roads?

WORK on the Japanese-funded Kukum Highway Road Project is starting soon. The multi-million dollar project will be built by Kitano-WKK JV, a Japanese construction firm. This road project was designed to alleviate the daily traffic congestion, which is now the hallmark of Honiara’s main road. With work to start soon, the public cannot wait to…

New coach for squad Toata steps down

Solomon Islands is looking at engaging a new coach for the men’s senior football squad. This was revealed on Wednesday by the president of the Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF), William Lai. Lai told local media during a press conference that former coach, Moses Toata has decided to step down from the post and allow…

Kurukuru’s journey set

The Oceania futsal Kings, the Kurukurus is set to start their journey for Colombia next month. Head Coach Juliano Schmelling confirmed this to the local media yesterday in a press conference. The team will be heading to Australia early next month to play their friendly matches against Australia national futsal team. From Australia they will…

Soltuna Pikinini pre-Olympics rugby fest

The Solomon Islands Rugby Union Federation (SIRUF) in collaboration with Soltuna Company Limited will on Saturday 6th August host a pikinini rugby festival to coincide with the opening of the Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil. The games in Rio will officially open on Friday 5th August, however, the proposed Soltuna Pikinini pre-Olympics Rugby Festival will…

U17 soccer competition

AN under 16 7-a-side soccer tournament is proposed to kick start 8th August 2016 for both boys and girls. In preparation for the competition the Honiara Football Association (HFA) is inviting schools in and around Honiara to register their under 16 school teams to compete in the upcoming HFA 2016 event. HFA in a statement…

Open invitation for referee workshop

Honiara Football Association has issued an open invitation to all interested individuals from HFA clubs, schools and general public to attend a 3-5 days referee workshop that has been organised from 1st to 5th August 2016 at the SIFF Conference room from 4.30pm to 7.00pm each day. In a statement yesterday HFA said they are…

TOP NOTCH

We lead the Pacific in reforms SOLOMON Islands is one of the leading reformers in the Pacific. Paul Holden, Lead Economist & Team Leader of Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI), highlighted this in Honiara, Tuesday. Dr Holden said this has resulted in growth for a period of 10 years of more than 3 percent.…

Residents want active police presence

RESIDENTS of Lau Valley community in east Honiara are supporting other nearby communities on the call for more active police participation in their community. Speaking to the Solomon Star on Tuesday, community elder Peter Wale said there is a serious need for police to step up its operations within the communities on the outskirts of…