SYDNEY, (SMH) – Leading ANZ Netball Championship coach Roselee Jencke, a key figure in Australia’s last home world title success 24 years ago, rates Jamaica ahead of New Zealand and a much-hyped England as the biggest threat to a repeat Diamonds triumph in Sydney. Jencke, a two-time premiership coach with the Queensland Firebirds who, as…
Dear Editor – I would like to make few comments concerning the recent participation and performance of our soccer team during the pacific game. Firstly, Solomon soccer is no longer a force or threat in the Oceania region because the current result speaks out well of itself. In the past Solomon soccer is very entertaining…
Dear Editor – The above article on your paper is a harmonious melody to my ears as far as the Honiara’s Central Business District (CBD) is concerned. I’d like to commend the Mayor and his team for this very important initiative and vision. It is an issue that’s been long overdue and needs immediate attention.…
IN a media release this week the Special Secretary to Prime Minister (SSPM) Rence Sore made an attempt to justify to the public that the $3.7 Million payment Government made to the owners of Sun Express was a financial support. If this is true, then this would be in direct contradiction to the Cabinet decision…
Dear Editor – I am writing to express my personal views after reading PM’s Special Secretary’s comments in regard to the recent government payout to Breakwater Cafe owners which appeared is Star issue No. 5942. The tone in Rence Sore’s news release is very easy to see through from any angle that those types of…
Dear Editor – Although not directly related issues, two articles in the local Solomon Island’s media caught my attention during last week. The first article referred to the reported failure of 28 students to meet their academic studies at the University of the South Pacific and would be returning home. I don’t know the background…
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HONIARA, (FFA) – Pacific Island Parties (PIPs) to the treaty on fisheries with the United States have reached agreement on an Interim Arrangement of the Treaty that will enable US tuna purse seine fishing vessels to fish in the waters of the Parties in 2016. The agreement was reached in Brisbane on Wednesday (05 August).…
Solomon Islands National University (SINU) now has its own computer facility at Kukum campus. The new computer labs consists of 120 desktop computers in which 67 of them have been installed in the main computer lab while the remaining one have been distributed to smaller labs. The labs have been arranged with work stations and…
THE opening of new computer labs will increase access by students to the Information Communication Technology (ICT) service says Dr. Glynn Galo Vice Chancellor Solomon Islands National University (SINU). In his opening remarks to mark the opening of the SINU new computer labs yesterday, Dr. Galo said there is a relationship between the quality of…