Stages of Change kick off National Tour

The exciting EU funded Women’s Theatre Company, Stages of Change, kick off their first ever national tour with a free public performance tomorrow (Thursday Oct 23) at the National Auditorium at 6.30pm. Stages of Change project uses theatre to engage women and men in discussions about violence against women and girls; its subtle use of…

UNFPA representative meets USP VC

The University of the South Pacific’s Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Rajesh Chandra had a successful meeting with Dr. Laurent Zessler, Director and Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific Sub-Regional Office on October 9, 2014. Dr Zessler commended and congratulated the University for its work in the region. He pointed out the three…

Hana thrashed

WESTERN United girls yesterday thrashed Hana in the 2014 womens league. The match was played at the SIFF academy, King George, East Honiara. It was a tough kick off as both teams were determined to open the scorelines. But as the match continued United ladies managed to take control of the match and slotted in…

Inter- island rugby intensify

The Matson-Silentworld inter-island rugby competition which kicked off over the weekend is into its pool games this week with teams battling it out for top position. Tuesday’s first match was a very close game with Malaita Outer Islands defeating Eastern Outer Islands by 3 points. The second game featured Malaita Subi up against Guadalcanal Malaghai.…

Betikama triumph

The Betikama Adventist College (BAC) basketball teams both boys and girls claimed victory on Sunday during the high school basketball league. In the boys catergory Betikama ladies overcame the determined Tenaru girls by 30-11. While in the boys’ division Betikama was too good for the King George Sixth sode overpowering them with a scoreline of…

Showers halt matches

Last weekend’s bad weather has forced all six remaining futsal league games in Auki, Malaita province to be cancelled. The matches were supposed to be played at Aligegeo futsal court. Because of the heavy down, all the team managers met with the organising committee and agreed that the games be cancelled due to the poor…

Rodger’s pledge

Dear Editor – Whilst not siding with any parties regarding issues debated by Grant David (Sunday Star 19 October 2014) on above I am obliged to state the truth. The 23 Malaysian doctors stated by David and that they were invited by Dr Rodgers were both incorrect. They were Filipino doctors. They were not invited…

Voting

Dear Editor – I have seen displayed in your Monday 20th October 2014 issue, the illustration of the process along which voting would be done. I have noticed that this process does not match the whole intention of conducting the completed nation-wide BVR process. This is because of the situation where the use of finger-print…