A twenty-nine strong squad, dominated by players from the Telekom S-League, has been named by head coach, Patrick Miniti, for the Pacific Games in July. The announcement of the squad comes on the back of a grueling month of trials for the more than forty selectees who signed up. The trials included a number of…
The Solomon Islands Netball Federation (SINFED) has announced the names of the players selected for the national netball squad. This followed a meeting with the training squad on Monday. Noelyn Luahiti President SINFED said the team is now under the watchful eyes of coach is Annie Iamo of Papua New Guinea. Mrs Iamo has a…
Guadalcanal Provincial Government’s (GPG) initiative to form a provincial soccer team in the prestigious semi- professional league, the S’ league, has taken shape with an interim committee formed to assist the Guadalcanal Football Association (GFA). The interim committee was formed mid this week following a meeting attended by avid Guadalcanal soccer supporters and members of…
A total of 8 primary school in East Kwara’ae Constituency each received a carton of soccer balls early this week. The soccer balls were funded by Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) In Honiara through the Provincial Member for ward 15 in East Kwara’ae Martin Aniana. Speaking to Star Sports Mr Aniana said, the primary schools…
Just Play Programme has reached another height in implementing its development activities. Just play team from SIFF office, with the commitment of regional coordinators, of north and north East Guadalcanal had staged another successful kids festival on the Easter Monday, 6th April at Gppol 2, Tetere. The theme for the festival was; ‘Gender Equality.’ The…
TALAMUA ONLINE – A double Olympian qualifier has opted to represent Samoa in the July Pacific Games in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea. Colorado based Jeremy Dodson whose mother is Samoan from the village of Malie, made his intentions known when he and his grandmother met with the Prime Minister before the Easter break. Jeremy…
FBC SPORTS – The Amicale football club from Vanuatu is dedicating its outing in the Fiji Airways Oceania Championships League to those affected by last month’s Tropical Cyclone Pam. The cyclone affected the entire of Vanuatu and it made the preparations hard for the team, just like its fellow club, Tafea, which is also in…
Dear Editor – It is my considered view that the national budget being debated at the moment is a budget to continue funding corruption which is rampant nationally. The Budget is not funding the reforms and restructures that are needed to bring about the changes to eliminate corruption. The new government, which prides itself in…
Dear Editor – The organization known as ‘Green Tourism Solomon Islands Ltd’ (GTSIL) has recently conducted five days of ‘high impact tourism training’ for small and medium size tourist operators in Taro, Choiseul Province. The DTSIL sought funding from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for the financial assistance under the European Union (EU) aided…
Dear Editor – I wish to simply correct the report in the Star by Denver Newter (SST 5785) that a runner complained of stomach aches and diarrhoea due to taking milk distributed at Rotary Fun Run and claimed the milk had expired. This claim is false as the donated milk was checked properly and was…