SOLOMON Islands Meteorological Service (SIMS) no longer has the challenge to store weather and climate data after UNDP in partnership with the Australian Government stepped in to assist with the much needed equipment. SIMS is the country’s office responsible for issuing weather updates and early warning information for most natural hazards such as tsunamis, cyclones,…
A YOUNG man is now in police custody after stabbing a Japanese military personnel attending a commemoration service of the Battle of Guadalcanal at Bloody Ridge just after eight this morning. A Solomon Star reporter, who was at the scene, Eddie Lachlan said the incident happened during the speeches at the official part of the…
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…
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…
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…
Solomon Islanders who changed global history By Michael J Field So why, someone might ask Caroline Kennedy, was the fact that your father was saved by a couple of Solomon Islanders obscured for so long? And while at it, perhaps ask her just why her father, then Lt jg John F Kennedy, managed to lose…
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’…
UNITED States President Joe Biden has made solidarity with the Pacific Islands a priority for his entire administration. Speaking at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal at Skyline Ridge today (Sunday 7th August 2022), Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said this was why US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
THE world today is engaged in a different kind of struggle – a struggle that will go on for some time. This was the statement of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman during the commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal at Skyline Ridge this morning (Sunday 7th August 2022). “President Biden…
The Tax Administration Bill currently being debated in Parliament will replace and modernize the current administrative processes in each of the current tax laws to achieve consistency and compliance in the tax administration. The current tax laws include the Income Tax Act, the Goods Tax Act, the Sales Tax Act and the Stamp Duty Act.…