Drop in scholarship budget 

THE National Training Unit (NTU) Scholarship Budget continues to witness a slight decrease in its annual budget allocation from $293.6 million dollars in 2021 to $293.4 this year.  Minister for Education & Human Resources Development, Lanelle Olandrea Tanangada revealed this in Parliament Thursday, when she delivered her speech during the debate of the 2022 Appropriation…

USP SI Campus lifts lockdown 

UNIVERSITY of the South Pacific (USP) Solomon Islands Campus has ended its three (3)-day lockdown mode, Friday. As of Wednesday this week, the campus enforced a full lockdown mode as advised by the MOH (emergency unit) and was implemented for 3 days starting on the 20th to 22nd of April.  This is due to a confirmed…

Alarm over China-SI deal brushes over limits of Australia’s ‘influence’ in Pacific

by Joanne Wallis, Czes Tubilewicz  SYDNEY MORNING HERALD FOREIGN affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong has described Australia’s inability to dissuade the Solomon Islands from signing a security agreement with China as the “worst failure of Australian foreign policy in the Pacific” in almost 80 years.  This agreement seemingly confirms the Australian government’s anxiety about China’s growing…

CHINA’S PRIDE

SI receives first of eight PRC funded sports facility for PG2023 THE newly built Track and Field facility at the King George Sixth School former cricket field was officially handed over to the Government of Solomon Islands by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) yesterday. This is the first of eight sports facility projects under…

USA OFFICIALS HERE

Top United States security officials in Honiara to discuss SI-China security pact TOP United States security officials have arrived in Honiara in their efforts to force Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to scrap a security pact Solomon Islands signed with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) earlier this week. The delegation is made up of Kurt…