ALL year six students have been placed to continue their secondary education in secondary schools across the country next year. That’s according to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) Dr. Franco Rodie. He announced this during the MEHRD Annual Joint Review (AJR) 2019 in Honiara, Monday. “I’m pleased…
Insists Djokovic tries to solicit funds from them AUSTRALIAN mining firm Axiom Ltd has insisted the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Robson Djokovic attempted to solicit funds from them for his personal benefit. “Around the time when Robson Djokovic became Chief of Staff, he approached Axiom’s Australia-based chairman,” a statement Axiom’s Community Affairs Manager Philemon…
SEVEN tribes that owned aggregate resources in the Tina River area in central Guadalcanal signed an agreement with the Hyundai Engineering Company Ltd [HEC] to supply aggregate sources. Hyundai Engineering Company Ltd [HEC], a Korean firm, will construct the Tina Hydro Dam in Central Guadalcanal. The agreement signed Tuesday 3rd December 2019 relates to the…
Recent allegations in the Australian press and republished in local newspapers labeling Robson Djokovic as a convicted criminal are inaccurate, false, misleading and completely absurd. Djokovic made the statement in response to the manner in which Matthew Wale and Ryan Mount, have by virtue of their own defamatory statements, exposed themselves as desperate individuals with…
The Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) acknowledges Prime Minister Hon Manasseh Sogavare and his Democratic Coalition Government for Advancement (DCGA) for recognizing the Chamber’s role as the main private sector representative organization in the country. Speaking during the Business Excellence Awards (BEA) 2019 on Saturday 30th November, Prime Minister Hon Sogavare stressed…
MISS Solomon and the first runner up in last week’s Miss Pacific contest in Papua New Guinea (PNG) says although her team could not snatch the crown, they won the hearts of Pacific islands. Gladys Habu and her team have arrived in the country around lunchtime on Tuesday to a warm welcome from supporters and…
THE Government has demanded Australian miner Axiom Ltd to pay $7 million over its alleged failure to obtain provincial business licenses from Isabel Province and for not providing annual survey reports for seven years. The company said the demand was made in a letter it received from the Ministry of Commerce, Labour and Immigration dated…
OPPOSITION leader Mathew Wales has called for the sacking of the Chief of Staff for the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Robson Djokovic. He also calls on Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who is Djokovic’s uncle, to reconsider his position as prime minister. Wale made the call after the Australian newspaper reported yesterday Djokovic…
The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Abigail Chang as the new Country Director for Solomon Islands and Kiribati. Ms Chang will take up her new position in Honiara in December 2019. She joins the APTC from the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP) in Suva, Fiji, where she…
Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) have conducted about more than 200 sea patrols in the Shortland Islands and part of Choiseul Province in just two weeks from 14-28 November 2019. The sea patrols covered the Solomon Islands side of the common border with Papua New Guinea to closely monitor all movements…