Lands board hailed

THE establishment of the lands board within the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey has been described as a wise move which sets the work within the Ministry in order.  Permanent Secretary of the Ministry was speaking before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday when he highlighted this. He said, under the new act the…

Sumitomo supports malaria fight

Sumitomo Metal Mining (SMM) Ltd on Tuesday donated 11,000 stop malaria posters to Honiara City Council (HCC) Malaria division. The donation was made possible through a request from JICA volunteer working with the Malaria division as part of fighting dengue, Malairia and Zika in Honiara. SMM Managing Director of Yoritoshi Ochi when handing over the…

Timber exporters gauge Anzac market potential

DELEGATES of the Solomon Islands Timber Export Mission to New Zealand have described their experience as “invaluable”. The mission comprising eight timber exporters also visited Australia as part of a fact finding mission and to meet with their importer-customers in the two countries earlier this month. New Zealand and Australia are major export markets for…

Community to commemorate April flood

Survivors and victims of the 2014 Honiara April 3 flash flood will be commemorating the 2014 April flood. Most of the survivors who have been resettled at April Hill in East Honiara have lost loved ones. Speaking to the paper, treasurer of the organizing committee Charles Ketea said, “it’s now April, and our thoughts about…

Visale parish prepares for Easter

Catholic communities under Visale parish in North West Guadalcanal are preparing well for the 2015 Easter celebration this weekend. Solomon Star North West Guadalcanal stringer John Toki said, the parish members are now cleaning up the station ready for the Easter weekend celebration. He said, Visale Catholic station is the main place for catholic local…

Youths prepare for Easter

Youths of Tangarare Parish in West Guadalcanal are preparing to celebrate Easter in style. Chairman of Zone three Emeriko Kiriu highlighted this during his visit to the Catholic Communication last week. Mr Kiriu said that this year all local Churches in Tangarare Parish will gather and celebrate Easter at the Saint Joseph Chapel Tangarare.   He…

More attend literacy school

More than a hundred participants both male and female attended a new literacy school at Holy Cross this year. The school was managed by the Counsellor of Holy Cross Cathedral Georgiana Sogote’e. “The main goal for the training is to equip and train both old and young people who don’t know how read and write…