Tambalivu church of Visale parish in northwest Guadalcanal celebrated feast day of the holy name of Mary last Friday. The celebration of the holy name of Mary was held annually every year. More than 500 people from surrounding communities of Visale attended the program. Northwest Guadalcanal Solomon Star stringer John Toki said Visale parish priest…
I began by asking Amanda to introduce herself, tell us something about her background and what had brought her to Port Vila. She told me that her father is from the East Sepik region of Papua New Guinea and her mother is from Melbourne, Australia. Although she spent her early childhood in Port Moresby, Amanda…
LOCAL reggae group Native Stone Age will don their new T-shirts – courtesy of bemobile Ltd – when they appeared on stage, Saturday. The Malaita-based band, who hailed from east Fataleka, are organising a two-day concert today and tomorrow. Band manager Israel Siau said the concert was organised to raise funds to meet costs related…
THE Church of Melanesia’s Christian Care Centre (CCC) has been boosted with a timely donation of $34,000 cash, thanks to the spouses of the government ministers led by Prime Minister’s wife, Bronwyn Lilo. The donation was presented to the Care Centre’s coordinator, sister Doreen, at the Prime Minister’s Official residence at Vavaya Ridge. MrsLilo has…
MEMBERS of the Bokona SDA Dorcas group carried outa three-day workshop at Phamphylia Village in the Malango Ward of Central Guadalcanal. Around 40 women of Phamphyilia attended the three day workshop starting on 3September 2014. The training introduced simple livelihood activities such as sewing and catering. Village chief and community elder Daniel Una requested the…
A FIVE-DAY community health development forum aimed at addressing health development plans of the South Seas Evangelical Church (SSEC) and it members is being held this week. It started Monday at Kobito, east Honiara, and will conclude today. About 20 church coordinators from the SSEC churches in Honiara, Guadalcanal and Western region took part in…
Women in the pacific will be benefiting from the new “Economic Empowerment of Women in the Pacific” project that was launched in Samoa this week at the third UN-SIDS Conference. The launch was done between the government of Samoa, International Trade Centre (ITC) and Stakeholders to partner to ‘Integrating Women Entrepreneurs in SIDS into the…
ALIGEGEO Provincial Secondary School in Malaita has thanked Caritas for the provision of water tanks for students’ use. Caritas is the relief and development agency of the Catholic church. School principal Robert Lafisi said the donation came at a right time. He said the school has been without water since October last year. “Teachers and…
Five students attending the Christian Revival Crusade (CRC) Gateway mission school graduated last Sunday. This came after four months of training. The five students included four males with one female representing CRC churches around the provinces. They were being trained to work in the mission field to serve God and reaching out to preach Gods…
Newly elected leaders of the United Church Assembly were reminded to commit to their working relationship with the church. The leaders were elected during the church’s annual synod that ended at Koleasi village in northeast Guadalcanal, Thursday. Guadalcanal United Church superintendent Rev Philip Kaegasi made the reminder in his remarks. Kaegasi said it’s important for…