THE sister relationship between Malaita Province and China’s Jiangsu Province is thriving. The friendship agreement between the two provinces was sealed in 2024 and it led to the provision of significant support in the form of livelihood materials and seminar training by Jiangsu to Malaita. Speaking at the Revised Budget 2024/2025 Meeting of the Malaita…
THE Kilu’ufi Hospital Improvement Project is progressing smoothly, with earthworks excavation currently underway. The improvement project is set to transform Kilu’ufi Hospital through the introduction of a new Outpatient Service facility, Maternal and Child Health facilities, Surgical Services, and Diagnostic Services. Once completed, the upgraded hospital will also create additional jobs, offering new employment opportunities…
THE Workers Union of Solomon Islands (WUSI) has issued a 28-day strike notice to the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA). The notice is effective from Friday 10 January. This action follows SIPA’s failure to provide workers with their COVID-19 allowances, a 3.5 per-cent Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) and bonuses from the previous year. WUSI…
A BUSINESS faction within the hardware industry is said to be responsible for putting together a 10-point Memorandum of Demands (MoD) on Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele, sources have revealed. The move is intended to dampen a price war that is brewing in the lucrative hardware industry, resulting in rival political factions being formed and established,…
DEPUTY Prime Minister Bradley Smokey Tovosia is believed to have accepted in-principle a decision to relinquish the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification (MMERE) portfolio with a condition. The Minister wants his proxy to be the new MMERE Minister, mining industry sources confided in Solomon Star this week, implying that nothing would change. A…
THE Malaita Provincial Government (MPG) is set to implement 35 per-cent of its revised 2024/2025 budget in this 2025 financial year. The 35 per-cent of the revised 2024/2025 Budget is worth $11,873,158 and these finances come from the Provincial Capacity Development Fund’s (PCDF’s) Capital Development Fund Budget. Malaita Province was unable to access this budgetary…
THE Malaita Provincial Government (MPG) has officially endorsed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) initiative with the objective of empowering indigenous people through the provision of more business opportunities across the province. This announcement was made by Malaita Province Premier Elijah Asilaua yesterday at the Revised 2024/2025 Budget Meeting in the Provincial Assembly Chamber.…
THE Malaita Provincial Government is in the process of securing land for the construction of a youth hub in Auki, a project valued at SBD3 million. The project will be funded by the National Government through the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs. The youth hub will be a multipurpose facility designed to…
THE Miss Pacific Islands Pageant (MPIP) is an event brining all women representatives of Pacific Island nations together to showcase their cultures and traditions through attires, story-telling, dancing and so forth. Miss Solomon Islands Pageant Director and MPIP Board Member, Joyce Konofilia said MPIP is a Tourism Destination Marketing event and that for Solomon Islands,…
SOLOMON Host Event, the host for the Miss Pacific Island Pageant (MPIP) 2025, has been working tirelessly straight after the Miss Solomon Islands Pageant in August last year to do the preparatory work for the event and is dedicated to ensuring its successful delivery. The other seven Pacific queens with their officials will arrive in…