Solympics up against NZ, Friday By CROFTON UTUKANA Solomon Islands national U-23 men’s football team will take on New Zealand tomorrow in their final group A match of the OFC men’s qualifying tournament for Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Both Solomon Islands and New Zealand registered six points each after winning their first two matches. However, New…
The Solomon Island Basketball Federation (SIBF) along with Solomon Basketball and Passion Events is organizing a 3×3-basketball championship series slated for this month and in October. The 2-part series is for now called the 3×3 Solo Hoops: Basketball Slam Series and is set to tip-off this Sunday 29th October, 2019 at the Multi-purpose hall basketball…
A TOTAL of 78 students studying under Australia Pacific Technical Coalition (APTC) have graduated on Wednesday during a ceremony in Honiara. The event marked the successfully completion of their studies. Most of the studies have been studying for months and years in 15 different technical and vocational courses offered by APTC. The annual ceremony was held…
THE Australian High Commission Counsellor for Economic Andrew Scholoeffel says tourism is a really an important sector to the development of Solomon Islands. Mr Scholoeffel made the statement during the recent launch of the Tourism Trail by the Strongem Bisnis together with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday. He said the Australian High…
A THREE-DAY Gender Based Violence (GVB)workshop that started on Monday ended on Wednesday in Honiara. Participants at the workshop include youth agents of change from the Side by Side program, members of the Kurukuru national futsal team and members of White River Rookies basketball team. The key objectives of the workshop are to help young people…
KUSIKA community in North West Guadalcanal successfully celebrated its 20th anniversary since the construction of a Catholic church in 1999. The event was held fortnight ago North West Guadalcanal Solomon Star stringer John Toki said. Theme for the 20th anniversary was: ‘Challenge the growth of Christian faith at Kusika community.’ The celebration was also to…
NAURU Airlines has announced it will stop flying to Pohnpei and Honiara at the end of the month. The carrier said the destinations have been withdrawn because of low passenger numbers, making the flights commercially non-viable. It said ceasing the Honiara stop will create a quicker, direct service between Nauru and Brisbane. The airline said…
MIRACLE Singing Ministry of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church will be hosting a public concert and DVD launching on Sunday 06 October 2019 at the Kukum SDA car park in Honiara. Reports reaching Solomon Star said the public concert will be staged to help support Aboru SDA church in Makira/Ulawa province who will also…
MOST Caucus members who voted in support of the China switch did so because they were threatened by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. That’s according to Rick Hou, who Sogavare sacked yesterday to refusing to support the diplomatic switch. “The switch vote was made under threats from Sogavare and his advocators inside the Caucus,” Hou claimed.…
CHRISTIAN Nieng has confirmed the National Hosting Authority (NHA) is yet to have an Executive Director. He was responding to some claims that he was appointed few weeks ago as the Executive Director without going through the proper recruitment process. It’s understood that out of the four applicants interviewed, no appointment has yet been made.…