HONIARA magistrate’s court will deliver its sentence on the nine Bougainville men who have been convicted of illegally staying in the country without entry visas. A local man who harboured the nine men illegally in the Shortland Islands, Western Province will also be sentenced along with the nine next week. This was after the mitigating…
HEALTH authorities yesterday stepped in to deny reports of a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara among health workers. Both Minister Dr Tautai Agikimua Kaitu’u and the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Steve Aumanu came out to dismiss the reports. “Only one medical staff had evidence of TB infection out of…
The 2015 International Anti-Corruption Day will be marked in Honiara on the 9th of December. Hosted by Transparency Solomon Islands in partnership with the Government National Integrity Institutions, Solomon Islands Financial Intelligence Unit, Extractive Industries Transparency Institution (EITI) and Forum Solomon Islands International (FSII) , the International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD) on the 9th of December…
Local farmers and residents in Marau Sound, east Guadalcanal are in desperate need of a proper market house with facilities to sell their products. A local woman in the area said, without a market house, women are selling their products under the trees during market times every Thursdays. She felt this is very bad since…
Saturday 5th December was International Volunteers Day, when people all over the world celebrated what it means to be a volunteer. World Vision Solomon Islands (WVSI) joined other organisations in recognising the contribution that volunteers make. “Volunteers have been a great support to the World Vision team and the communities we work with,” says WVSI…
International Volunteer Day is celebrated annually on the 5th of December. This year in the Solomon Islands, local and international volunteer sending agencies partner together with Development Services Organisation, other local volunteers police, and correctional service staff came together to clean the maternity and children’s ward at the National Referral Hospital (NRH), Honiara. The 2015…
PRIME Minister Manasseh Sogavare has been accused of trying to suppress vital information of national interest by choosing the floor of Parliament to respond to allegations levelled against him. The Opposition Group made the accusation yesterday. “Whilst the Opposition welcomes and holds the Prime Minister to his word, what the Prime Minister intended to do…
MEMBERS of the general public are being warned to carefully inspect goods that will be on crazy sale in the coming days as the festive season is closing in. The Solomon Star was informed by a concerned Honiara citizen Samson Kakadi that, it is this time of the year that most shops will want to…
THE Our Telekom Munda Christmas carol competition is progressing very well in Lambete, Munda Western Province. On Tuesday night there were 10 groups that participated in the elimination round. A statement from the organizers (Our Telekom) said at the end of the elimination “Medical Needles” of Lale was pronounced the winner and its runner up…
The last intake of participants for this year’s Youth@Work 0Young Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) has graduated on Friday after a two-week intensive training on starting your own business (SYOB), a course run in tandem with the International Labour Organization (ILO) who have provided extensive TOT to the Youth@Work youth-led staff this year. The 22 graduates received…