PM SNUBS US

PRIME MINISTER Manasseh Sogavare appears to have snubbed the delegations of the United States of America and other allies by being absent from the dawn service commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Landing of the Marines on Guadalcanal. Mr Sogavare was to give a speech at the dawn service at the Guadalcanal American Memorial at…

MP BACK UNDER SPOTLIGHT

FREDERICK KOLOGETO – the Member for South Vella Lavella Constituency and Minister for Commerce, Industries, Labour and Immigration – may have overstepped legal advice given in January this year. The instruction relates to plans by Hon Kologeto to take over PE 079-004-002 on Vella Lavella. The Vella Development Ltd (VDCL) holds the title over this…

EZEKIEL ALEBUA DIES

Former Solomon Islands Prime Minister and Guadalcanal Province Premier, Rt. Hon. Ezekiel Alebua, passed away last night, Sunday, 7th August 2022 at 10:26pm at Haimatua, his home village on the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal. A statement from the family says he passed away after a long battle with complicated health issues. Alebua served as the…

The Battle of Guadalcanal 

EIGHTY years ago today (August 7th 2022), thousands of U.S. Marines landed here on Guadalcanal and on the islands of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo.  According to visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, it was the first major Allied land offensive in the Pacific theatre, and a proving ground for the United States Marine Corps’…

Drug shortage sparks concern in Malaita

THE shortage of basic drugs in most health centres in Malaita Province has sparked grave concerns in the drug shortage-affected communities. Reports reaching this paper said most clinics in the province have run out of Malaria tablets and Panadol, forcing patients requiring these drugs to seek them at private pharmacies and shops in the provincial…