SUBSISTENCE farmers along Kwaifa River in Ward Three of Malaita Province are seeing a widespread destruction of their sweet potato crop by some rare insects. One of the farmers, Michael Wale said he discovered a rare occurrence in his food garden last week and that was the leaves of his two-month-old mounds of sweet potato…
THE Honiara Netball Association (HNA) 2023 season will kick off tomorrow Saturday June 17th at the SMI netball court at Town Grounds. A total of 27 teams are confirmed to be part of the 2023 competition with four categories namely Super Division, Division A, Division B and Division C. The Super division consists of seven…
THE Malaita Province Ward 29 Development Committee in Central Kwara’ae Constituency has delivered small projects to communities as part of its mandate to deliver services to the people in the ward. A total of 6 local communities in the ward have reportedly received support last week from the Ward 29 Grant under 2023 Budget. The…
THE Member of Parliament (MP) for Lau-Mbaelelea Constituency in Malaita Province, Augustine Auga and his one-year rival, Ambrose Dolofera, have ironed out their differences in a traditional reconciliation ceremony at the former’s residence at Panatina Valley. The reconciliation was held in Honiara on Wednesday. The reconciliation ceremony also saw Auga reconcile his differences with a…
SOLOMON Islands has lost its first international friendly match 4-1 to Malaysia on Wednesday night in Malaysia. Despite an impressive start with the opening goal, Solomon Islands were dominated by the hosts and conceded four goals. Solomon Islands international Raphael Lea’i gave the national team the lead 11 minutes into the first half. Gagame Feni…
TRANSFER of money from overseas via the M-Seleni Money Mobile Service offered by Our Telekom will soon be possible. This is one of the striking features of the newly introduced M-Seleni Money Mobile Service launched early this week. At the launch of the latest financial service in Gizo, Western Province, on Monday, it was revealed…
Police Response Team (PRT) of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) have completed a two weeks intensive training provided by China Police Liaison Team (CPLT) on 14 June 2023 at Rove police headquarters. The Deputy Commissioner (DC) National Security and Operation Support (NSOS) Mr. Ian Vaevaso and Team Leader CPLT Commissioner Zhao Jinyong were present to…
The country’s two famous music artists better known by their stage names, Bibao and Lonna, are set to perform live at the double A night club in Noro, Western Province, at the end of this month. The live performance scheduled for June 30 will be the first one in Noro for two artists behind the…
On Saturday 10 June 2023, the Prime Minister’s Press Secretariat issued a statement heralding a pledge of collaboration by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Government to the Solomon Islands Government on issues of mutual interest, including climate change. The Saudi Arabia envoy on Climate change made the pledge of commitment to the first-ever Solomon Islands…
A TOTAL of 124 health leaders from each Honiara Seventh day Adventist (SDA) Church, including some other health professionals successfully graduated from 10,000 Toes Live More Abundantly (LMA) Training Programme. The training is part of the diabetes prevention strategy rollout which will take at least nine months to complete. It involves the identification of facilitators…