POLITICAL stability is key to giving investment confidence to investors and also the timely delivery of projects in the country. Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, highlighted this on Tuesday at Gold Ridge to mark the official commencement of commercial production by Gold Ridge Mining Limited (GRML). The operation is a joint venture initiative between a Chinese…
PACIFIC NICKEL MINES (SI) LTD SCORES THE BIG ONE PACIFIC Nickel Mines (SI) Ltd – the Australian mining company developing the world-class nickel deposit on Isabel – has scored the big one by obtaining the business licence for the multi-million-dollar project from the Isabel Provincial Government. The Company’s Solomon Islands’-based Director, Pawel Misiec, revealed this after…
The Solomon Islands Scout Association appointed four new commissioners this week. The British High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands and Nauru, H.E Thomas Coward was appointed as International Commissioner. Shona Fafale was appointed as the National Growth Coordinator, Frank Samui appointed as the Scout Commissioner for Temotu Province and Robert Au who was appointed as…
OVER 80 paediatric patients have been screened and have had surgical procedures performed to them at the National Referral Hospital by the visiting Australia Medical Team. The Ministry of Health and Medical Services said the team which comprises of two surgeons, two anaesthetists, an operating room nurse and a paediatric surgery nurse, have been in…
The local shareholder in GRML has been demanded to provide annual and operational reports on the mining operation as well as an explanation on the shareholding arrangement for landowners as the 90 percent Chinese-owned company prepares for its first gold export MEMBER of Parliament for Central Guadalcanal where Gold Ridge mine is located, Peter Shanel…
THE Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM) has reopened its shipyard at Taroniara, Central Islands Province (CIP), after two years of maintenance and refurbishment. A statement from ACOM said Taroniara Shipyard reopened on Friday last week after a reopening ceremony attended by representatives from ACOM Provincial Headquarters, Diocese of Central Solomons officers led by Right Reverend…
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has commended the reopening of the Gold Ridge Mine in Central Guadalcanal on Tuesday, saying the mine is vital for the country’s economic recovery. Speaking at the ceremony amidst hundreds of dignitaries including senior Government Ministers and Officials, Company representatives and tribal landowning group representatives at the mine site, Sogavare expressed…
DEAR EDITOR, Its very frustrating to note that over the weekend on Sunday I used the top-up service from the BSP service and nothing came through. I just wasted around $60 from my BSP account. This is very disappointing. In the past BSP do not normally refund this. Its something that some of us need…
SOLOMON Islands Mission (SIM) of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church has formally ordained seven new pastors to serve the mission of the church. Following their ordination, they are now referred as ‘Pastor’ and not ministers. The ordination ceremony was held on Thursday night at the Maranatha Hall in East Honiara and was officiated and…
A ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Solomon Islands Meteorological Services (SIMS) Forecasting Unit building was held by the UN Development Programme, in partnership with the Australian Government and the Solomon Islands Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) and Tropic Group Builders (TGB). The new SIMS building is a 2…