Two more communities in Malaita will now access mobile phone use following the launch of towers within their areas, Thursday. Our Telekom switched on its towers at Rota and Upeni in South Malaita to complete 14 towers it had been building in Malaita since last year. “This is a major leap for Telekom in its…
More than 14 community reps in Small Malaita ended a three-week bee training at Afio, Small Malaita, Thursday. The training was funded by World Vision under its Community Economic Development Project (CED). The training taught the participants technics and methods of bee farming. The aim is to help improve the economic conditions and livelihood of…
There’s a policy direction for second chance education for unfortunate secondary students who have fallen out of the education system. The policy direction was to have young people like pregnant single mothers in secondary schools, and expelled students from the system, to get back into the system. This was revealed by the Ministry of Education…
DEFENDING Telekom S-league champions, Solomon Warriors FC, will represent the country in the newly revived Melanesian Super Cup competition in Vanuatu. The club manageress Dianne Dettke confirmed their participation and said the team departed for Vanuatu last Saturday. They will play their opening game against Vanuatu’s Tafea FC on Tuesday and Amicale FC on Saturday…
THE Government has been warned to consult landowners on any proposed sale of the Gold Ridge mine in Central Guadalcanal. Chairman of Gold Ridge Community and Landowners Council, Dick Douglas, issued the warning on Friday. He was responding to the special secretary to the Prime Minister, Dr Philip Tagini’s statement that the government is negotiating…
POLICE at Noro have arrested six male suspects following an armed robbery at one of the logging camps at North New Georgia, Western Province, Thursday. Police alleged the suspects from Kolombangara and Mase village who were armed with knives and axes, entered the logging camp and demanded money and threatened workers. When their demand wasn’t…
AFIO clinic in south Malaita says it had recorded eight cases of measles so far. Registered nurse Angelic Herowai said most of the cases were children. The latest case was that of a man in his 30s. The news came as the Ministry of Health denied reports that measles cases are slowly decreasing. Instead, the…
THE ruling handed down by the High Court in the legal proceedings instituted by Sumitomo Mining Company of Japan against Axiom KB, challenging the validity of the nickel prospecting license of the joint venture company between Australia’s Axiom Mining company and the Kolosori-Bungusule tribes of Isabel Province carries damning revelations about the dealings of a…
A DRAMATIC rise in cases of measles reminds the community that the fight against measles is not yet over. Reports that “measles cases are slowly decreasing” are inaccurate, Dr Aaron Oritaimae, Incident Controller of the Ministry of Health’s Emergency Operations Centre, said. “In fact, cases of measles are increasing and spreading throughout the provinces,” he…
FORMER Guadalcanal premier Stephen Panga is calling on employers to consider increasing their workers’ salary in light of the increasing cost of living in Honiara. Mr Panga said the kind of salaries some employers are paying their workers could not last them for even a week. “The prices of goods at shops and even at…