Win Win Investment halts operations for a month

Win Win Investment Solomon Islands Ltd has paused its alluvial mining operations at Turarana, Central Guadalcanal, for a month. This follows the Ministry of Mines, Energy, and Rural Electrification’s (MMERE) indefinite suspension of Win Win’s operations due to alleged illegal mining activities within a tenement area allocated to Gold Ridge Mining Ltd (GRML) under prospecting…

PM Manele, officials discuss policing arrangements with PNG

SOLOMON Islands and Papua New Guinea discussed a number of security arrangements last weekend. The discussions were held between Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele, Minister of the Ministry of Police, National Security and Correctional Services (MPNSCS), Jimson Tanangada and MPNSCS Permanent Secretary Karen Galokale, Commissioner of Police Mostyn Mangau and PNG’s Minister for Police, Peter Tsiamilili…

NZ EMBRACES SI TIES:

NZ’s Peters-led high-level political delegation meets, congratulates PM Manele, reassures SI of NZ’s commitment to build on the longstanding NZ-SI relations and to continue assistance towards SI’s economic reform efforts THE New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters has reaffirmed New Zealand’s commitment to build on the longstanding New Zealand-Solomon Islands relationship…

Empowering young women to work in aged care

Australia is helping create jobs for Solomon Islanders through skills and training, with seventeen young Solomon Islander women recently receiving their Australian accredited Working in Aged Care Preparation Skill Set qualifications. Graduates with this qualification can pursue health sector employment opportunities in Solomon Islands, or in Australia under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme.…

POLITICAL STORM DEFUSED:

PM Manele applies diplomatic skills to defuse instability threat over DPM post, announces first two political appointments, while DPM Tovosia downplays weekend report that he faces official corruption charges PRIME MINISTER Jeremiah Manele has reportedly defused an internal row which could have torn apart his newly-formed government of National Unity and Transformation Coalition (GNUT) only…

Tenement D landowners in Isabel accuse mining company

SOUTH Pacific Nickel Mining Company Ltd is proceeding to do prospecting on Tenement D in Bugotu, Isabel Province. This comes after the company, owned by Filipino logger Johnny Sy, who also serves as the Director of Bulacan Logging Company, completed their initial consultation with the landowners last week. A company representative stated that the consultation…

PM Manele vows to maintain foreign policy

NEWLY elected Prime Minister, Jeremiah Manele vows to maintain the country’s foreign policy to work with all traditional partners and friends. This declaration comes in response to assertions from international media portraying Manele as pro-China due to his victory in the Prime Ministerial vote by a margin of 31-18. BBC reports that Manele is poised…