TORN Parachute video production company is eyeing to take Solomon Islands tourism to another level, exposing the beauty and friendliness of the once happy isle of the Pacific back to its original state. This could be made possible following the signing of a business partnership between the Brisbane based video production company and The Solomon…
Fiji’s participation in team events at Glasgow 2014 is “under consideration” following their reinstatement into the Commonwealth, insidethegames can reveal. Reg Sanday, President of the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC), has appealed to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) for the country’s rugby sevens and netball teams to be allowed to compete…
Fiji’s Sports Minister Viliame Naupoto has assured government’s support in Fiji Rugby Union’s bid to host one of the 2015/2016 HSBC Sevens World Series tournaments as well as host of the 2018 Sevens World Cup. He said the ministry had also written to the International Rugby Board to assure the international rugby body that Fiji…
Fifty two participants including 10 Digicel Cup referees, six ENBRL referees, 10 Digicel Cup coaches and trainers and 16 national development officers will undergo a two day accreditation course in rugby league in Kokopo on Saturday. The course run under the Team Kumul program will be conducted by three Australian accredited trainers with assistance from…
Samoan and New Zealand based rugby player, Kelly Meafua has been called to join the Samoa Sevens team to the IRB World Sevens Series Round 6 and 7 in Japan and Hong Kong. The last minute change is to replace Captain Reupena Levasa who is suspected of illness. “At this stage we are awaiting Levasa’s…
The 2014 OFC Women’s Championship saw the wide open margins by which New Zealand has long dominated their Pacific counterparts narrowed. The gap still exists, but with the work being put into the women’s game from Member Association’s like Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu this tournament was evidence that the hard work is starting…
Twenty people have expressed their interest for Fiji’s Rugby 15s coaching job. This was confirmed to Fijivillage by Fiji Rugby Union Chairman Filimoni Waqabaca. Waqabaca said the 17 applications are from New Zealand, Australia and Argentina while three are locals. Waqabaca said FRU will make sure that careful consideration will be done to…
He scored his first A-League goal at the weekend against Melbourne Heart and now Fiji striker Roy Krishna has extended his stay with the Wellington Phoenix two more years leaving him one very happy young chap. The 26-year-old has been with the club since January as injury replacement for Paul Ifill, joining from ASB Premiership…
NATIONAL volleyball champion Western province is all set to participate in next month’s national champion in Honiara. Solomon Islands volleyball federation (SIVF) in a statement on Wednesday said Western province has confirmed its participation this year. “The two times champion of the national volleyball championship Western province has confirmed to the SIVF organizing committee that…
The ministry of commerce, industry labour & immigration through the consumer affairs and price control unit has approved a new standard price list of some imported goods sold in shops around the country. Last year the unit submitted a report about the increasing number of imported goods sold in our shops at higher prices which…