THREE families who sought immunization for their newly born babies were lucky to escape after strong wind and waves smashed the makeshift house, they took shelter in at Lokuloku in Munda, Western province. A strong wind and waves smashed the makeshift house just after they move out their belongings. They were recently discharged from the Helena…
Thirteen-year-old Rosemary Leah Kelesiwasi who is being diagnosed with a brain tumor is now in Fiji for medical attention. Ms Kelesiwasi from ‘Suava’ in Lau and ‘Gwaidadai’ in Kwara’ae, Malaita Province traveled on Friday with her parents and a doctor, Dr Florence Fiuramo. The trip was made possible following weeks of fundraising and support from…
Former Premier of Central Province Stanley Manetiva has questioned the Central Provincial Government (CPG) for engaging a person with a police record to collect revenue from business owners in the province. Manetiva told Solomon Star that a person who has a police record was paid daily subsistence allowances and accommodation while in Honiara where he’s…
INTERNATIONAL flight IE703 due to travel to Nadi, Port Vila to pick up nursing students from Vanuatu was cancelled due to cyclone. That flight was to pick up around 70 students from Vanuatu to commence their study at the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) School of Nursing. The school of Nursing is one of the…
Closing submissions for Botanical Garden death Monday CLOSING submissions will be made on the matter of the man charged for the death of another man at the Botanical Garden in 2020, Monday. Ruben Jayrick Hitu faces one count of manslaughter. Justice Maelyn Bird will hear the closing submissions at 1.30pm. Hitu’s co-accused, Tatasi Fati Forau,…
THE first ever major clean-up of Honiara as part of the “Safe and Green Games SOLPG23” in preparation for the city’s hosting of the premier regional sporting event later this year was successfully carried out from Henderson to White River, Saturday. The “Safe and Green Games SOLPG23” campaign was launched by Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare…
DID the Ward 20 Member of the Malaita Provincial Assembly (MPA) and Minister of Works and Transport, Jimmy Rerehe, just let the secret out of the bag during a mobile conversation with a nurse that was overhead by another nurse and a priest? In what was supposed to be a confidential mobile conversation between the…
THE MV VATUD STAR – beached by heavy seas whipped up by tropical cyclone Judy this week – was finally refloated on Friday afternoon as on-lookers and passersby cheered the vessel’s freedom. Heavy seas forced the Vatud Constituency-owned ship to beach on the foreshores of the Prince Philip Highway at Kukum last Wednesday. Large crowd…
PM Sogavare – A target for an US-assisted assassination plot after the Honiara November 2021 riot PRIME MINISTER Manasseh Sogavare was to be assassinated after the success of the November 2021 riot in Honiara, sources deep within the Malaita For Development (M4D) movement have revealed. But the assassination plot – the second step carefully planned…
Official correspondences between the MPGIS Minister, Rollen Seleso and former Malaita Premier, Daniel Suidani show DCGA is not done with Suidani yet as it is working to have him totally removed from the Malaita Provincial Assembly THE Democratic Coalition Government for Advancement is still pursuing the former Malaita Premier, Daniel Suidani, even after he was…