Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer has deferred judgement for a man accused of murdering a man in Makira. The judgment was listed for Wednesday but was re-listed for August 4 at 1.30pm. Patrick Sovesuia, 24, was accused stabbing a man with a screw driver on the night of 3 December 2012 at Terea Settlement in…
SENTENCING of the former Central Bank (CBSI) officer will be made as soon as the defence and prosecution sort out a legal issue. Philip Bobongi stole more than $1.7 million of muted notes from CBSI when he served there. Sentencing submissions and mitigation on this case were made in court, Wednesday. Justice Leonard Maina however…
One of the men accused of attacking a man with a knife early this year at a village in Guadalcanal will be facing trial in the High Court. Principal Magistrate Jim Seuika on Wednesday committed 28-year-old Selwyn Namo to stand trial in the High Court for one count of attempted murder. This was after a…
SOLOMON Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) will announce its first ever female pilot for Honiara Ports. SIPA Chief Executive officer (CEO) Collin Yeo announced this during a press conference held at his office, Wednesday afternoon. Mr Yeo said, they already recruited a female pilot at the ports harbour. “We already have the female pilot at the…
THE Ministry of Public Services will tonight host the annual Public Service ‘Excellence in Human Resources Management Awards’ 2015 at the Solomon Kitano Mendana hotel, in Honiara. Annually, the Ministry of Public Service normally organizes the ‘Excellence in Human Resources Management Awards’, to reward high performing Human Resource Managers and officers within the Solomon Islands…
THE University of South Pacific (USP) has extended its registration dead line to the Friday 7th August 2015. According to the USP calendar, the registration weeks were scheduled for July 12th to 24th. But, in an official announcement made yesterday, the Vice Chancellor Professor Rajesh Chandra has approved to extend the registration for semester 2,…
THE two days women’s right workshop is underway at Rock Heaven Inn in Honiara. The workshop started yesterday and will finish today. According to the women’s right program manager Patricia Pollard, the workshop is being organized to further inform the civil society groups of the women’s right action movement in the country. Pollard added that…
West Rennell landowners labelled the Attorney General’s (AG) media statement as merely a legal opinion, which raised more questions that needs clarification. Spilling-off disappointment yesterday Richard Pautangata Hakatingisa’a questioned the statement from the AG conveyed through the Prime Minister’s Press Secretariat yesterday, claiming AG’s legal opinion does not consider pending court cases over those registered…
THE National Teachers Education Conference on Developing Competent, Committed and Professional Teachers for Solomon Islands has come to an end. The two days conference which started on Tuesday ended on Wednesday with numerous presentations from education experts from three major regional institutes namely University of Goroka and University of South Pacific SI Campus and off…
ABC: A LOCAL woman who lives across from the site of Mount Isa’s fatal caravan explosion in Queensland, Australia has described the moment she fled the scene with her two-year-old twins in her arms. Yendah Lewong from Western Province who now lives in Mount Isa fought back tears as she recalled Tuesday’s blast, which claimed…