An Inter-denominational Thanksgiving Service to be conducted tomorrow at the Anglican Saint Barnabas Cathedral will commence activities to mark the country’s 45th Independence Anniversary this week. The ecclesiastical event will begin at 8:00am. Chair of the National Organising Committee and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Jeffery Sade Deve, announced the programme on…
TINAKULA Fest Association has secured a platinum sponsorship for the Tinakula Festival 2023 – an event to showcase Temotu Province art and culture. The platinum sponsors for the Tinakula Festival 2023 are Our Telekom and Telekom Television (TTV). Tinakula Fest Association said the festival will be held on July 28th and July 29th. “The Tinakula…
MOST of the offerings and tithes worth more than $50, 000 stolen by thugs from Gizo GF Jones Memorial Church at the Western Provincial capital around the midnight of Monday were collections from the weekends. That’s according to the Area Church Pastor (ACP) Vernon Peter after comments and questions have been raised by the public…
CHURCH leaders have successfully completed a weeklong Training of Trainers workshop from 12th-15th June, 2023 in Honiara. The workshop was attended by the leaders and representatives from the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM), United Church Solomon Islands (UCSI), Seventh Day Adventist (SDA), South Seas Evangelical Church (SSEC), Catholic Church (CC), Solomon Islands Christian Association (SICA)…
THE Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Melanesia Most Reverend Leonard Dawea has this week announced the resignation of the Diocesan Bishop of Banks and Torres, the Right Reverend Patteson Worek. Archbishop Dawea said Bishop Worek’s resignation will be effective from 31st July 2023. He said the Bishop of the Diocese of Vanuatu and New…
Australia is sponsoring the first intake of 20 women in a new ‘green construction’ training program. The program is being delivered through two Australian Government initiatives, the Solomon Islands Infrastructure Program (SIIP) and the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC), in partnership with the Solomon Islands National University (SINU). The students are being supported by SIIP…
THE AUKI Catholic diocese members and the respective Catholic parishioners in Malaita province will soon miss the presence of their beloved bishop, Peter Houhou from the diocese. This comes after the announcement of Bishop Houhou’s new appointment as the new bishop for Gizo Catholic diocese in Western Province. He served as Catholic bishop for six…
The Solomon Islands Chinese Women Association (SICWA) yesterday organized a bazaar sale which also included the participation of local women and carvers at the AJ City Mall. The association besides giving opportunity to its women also invited members of the Solomon Islands Women In Business Association (SIWIBA) to take part and sale their products. The…
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…
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…