SECONDARY school students who have been identified by the Labour Mobility Unit Work Ready Pool (WRP) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MFAET) for aged care jobs in Australia have to pass a compulsory test provided by the APTC in Honiara. After passing the Language and Numeracy test, they will undertake the…
SOLOMON Islands Mission (SIM) of the Seventh Day Adventist Church has congratulated Gizo GF Jones Memorial Church for a milestone achievement in finally dedicating its new church building last Wednesday. It took about 27 years to get the work done and the SIM President Pastor David Filo on congratulated the church. The theme for the…
CHURCHES and the state must work together to address the many social issues affecting young people in the society. And the presence of the churches at the community level is important to support the youth population to make the right decisions in their lives. This was highlighted by the Western Provincial Premier Billy Veo last…
Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your paper, I wish to say something in this subject. My mother used said to me, son you are a registered voter, why are you not voting anymore? I said Mama, I’ve voted in every Solomon Islands election since I was turn 18 and I’ve never registered…
Dear Editor, We wish to share a scary and terrifying incident we encountered during our recent travel from Honiara to Auki, and then on to our village at the Fouia head-road in northeast Malaita. When we arrived in Auki, we realised that all three trucks destined for Fouia head-road had departed and so we had to look around for any truck travelling north road. …
THE One More Shot (OMS) photography campaign for Joy which supposed to end last Friday has been extended till Wednesday 6th of September. The campaign kicked off on Monday last week in Honiara and in Auki, Malaita Province, on Thursday last week. The extension applies to both Honiara and Auki. The OMS team of freelance…
BUILDING new public toilets for the 17th Pacific Games in Honiara will be impossible given the hurdles of land and finance but existing facilities can be upgraded for use. That’s according to Honiara City Council Clerk Justus Deni during the Iumi Sol2023 talkback show on the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) on Sunday. He was…
MALAITA Province is seeing a big number of Malaitans living in Honiara back in the province since last week for the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) which started yesterday. Reports have it that some of registrants who have a busy schedule and want to get their registration done as soon as possible were the first to…
THE three men who were accused of masterminding the November 2021 riot in Honiara will face trial next month. The trial will start on 9 October. Simon Mannie, John Kwaita and Knoxley Atu are facing trial for two counts of managing unlawful society, one count of sedition, two counts of unlawful assembly and seven counts…
A MAN has been sentenced to two years in prison for attacking three people with a Chainsaw chain in May 2022 in Tulagi, Central Province. Marvin Parina, 35, has been found guilty after a trial of one count of Unlawful Wounding and two counts of Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm. When sentencing Parina, Principal Magistrate…