THE current government is being urged to introduce a loaning scheme for local students that wished to undergo tertiary studies on undergraduate or postgraduate degree both home and abroad. This was made known to the Solomon Star by a group of concerned students who were not able to make it into the government scholarships for…
TOILET facilities at Honiara International airport especially the female convenience restroom has been criticised as bearing no concern for privacy. The criticisms which went spiral over social media web described the female restroom as the only one worldwide that did not cater for privacy of the users. Concerned critics said the female toilets did not…
PRINCIPAL of Faufanea community high school (FCHS), Malaita Provincial has assured parents that academic standards students receive in rural community schools are of equal footing to that received by students at urban schools. The principal, Michael Booboo Ma’akalo made this assurance in an effort to convince parents who hold conflicting views on the level of…
THE Parliamentary Opposition Group has called on the Government to inform the nation on the progress of the Tina Hydro Project. The Opposition made the call following recent reports in the media that Chiefs from Malango and Bahomea were not happy with the Government’s failure to meet the cost of the valuation, which the core…
THE man who faced charges for the death of three people during the height of the ethnic tension in 2003 has been acquitted. This was after the court found no evidence against John Meti yesterday during a short form preliminary inquiry. After going through the committal papers, Principal Magistrate found no evidence to sustain the…
Hospital theatres remain closed A KIND-HEARTED donation that should get the two closed operating theatres at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) up and running within a week was turned down over the weekend. Tropic Glass and Aluminium (TGA) Limited, a locally owned company, was shocked last Saturday when its offer to renovate the two closed…
THE Henderson Hammer Heads Rugby Club has postponed its Touch Rugby competition for this weekend. This was due to the heavy rain fall experienced in the capital over the weekend. The ‘Touch Day Out’ touch rugby competition is the first of a series of rugby events to kick off the HHH 2016 calendar. It will…
SUVA, ( FIJI TV) — Athletes from Papua New Guinea were part of the Shop and Save Athletics Fiji weekly competition at the ANZ stadium last week. Mowen Boino, the current Pacific Games gold medallist in the Hurdles Event and the current record holder. Boino clocked 53.84 seconds in the Open Men’s 400m hurdles. He…
About 26 officials of the Solomon Islands Hockey Federation (SIHF) are now certificate holders of the Oceania Hockey Coach level 1. They officially received their Certificate of Accreditation on Tuesday from the president of SIHF Nihal Seneviratne yesterday at the SIM sports grounds. Nihal said the recipients’ final received their Certificates after successfully completed a…
THE President of the Solomon Islands Hockey Federation (SIHF) Nihal Seneviratne has joined the mad Kurukuru fans and supporters in the country and abroad in congratulating the boys for the second victory Tuesday. Senevirantne stressed this to Star Sports in an interview yesterday. “On behalf of SIHF I would like to congratulate the Kurukuru boys…