PRIME Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has been briefed on the Australian, United Kingdom and United States (AUKUS) security arrangement. AUKUS is the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, announced on 15 September 2021 for the Indo-Pacific region. Under the pact, the US and the UK will help Australia to acquire nuclear-powered…
PRIME Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has requested the New Zealand (NZ) Government to reciprocate the visa-waver arrangement that Solomon Islands is currently offering to NZ. The Prime Minister made the request in a courtesy meeting with the NZ Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee delegation that visited Honiara last week. The Prime Minister’s Press Secretariat described…
WORK on improving and securing the water source in Kunu community near the Malaita Provincial capital, Auki, is progressing well and nears completion. Kunu, a community with no water supply from Solomon Water depends almost entirely on the water source for washing and cooking. Lately, the Community Access & Urban Service Enhancement (CAUSE) Project saw…
Former Malaita Premier Suidani given government-in-exile option discussions hosted by Washington DC A GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE is one of two options the United States reportedly discussed with former Premier Daniel Suidani in Washington DC in recent weeks, it was revealed this weekend. The first one is funding his political campaign when he returns (to) Solomon Islands (SI)…
MORE International researchers have hiked Mount Rendova in the Western Province to conduct different researches on the environment before and after COVID-19. Tour Guide and staff of Titiru Eco-Lodge, Carlos Philip said these researchers went to conduct their studies on volcanic rocks, snakes, frogs, lizards, bats, environment & conservation and bird-watching. Mr Philip said this…
THE Japanese Government’s Grassroots and Human Security Project administered by its Embassy in Honiara has handed over a cheque worth $2,481,900.00 SBD to the Falake Community in West Kwara’ae, Malaita Province, for the installation of a micro hydropower plant. The handing over ceremony was held at the Japanese Embassy on Monday. The Japanese Ambassador to…
Police in Auki have arrested a 42-year-old male person for attempted murder at Auki wharf this morning (17 March 2023). The incident occurred this morning on board MV Express Pelican II while berthing at Auki wharf preparing for its departure to Honiara. Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Malaita Province, Superintendent Leslie Kili said the 42-year-old suspect is…
IN an official ceremony at the Honiara International Airport on Wednesday, Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare on behalf of the Government and People of Solomon Islands received the newly completed Japan-funded airport improvement project from the Japanese Ambassador to Solomon Islands, Miwa Yoshiaki. Through an SBD$300-million funding support from Tokyo through the Japanese International Corporation Agency,…
A WEEKLONG Trachoma awareness carried out by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) in the Central Islands Province (CIP) is underway. The awareness includes talks on trachoma as well as the conducting of screening and treating of the disease, targeting children from ages five to nine. The awareness programme known as “School Trachoma…
FORMER public prosecutor, Elma Veenah Rizzu Hilly, is one of the three new magistrates who were sworn into the Magistracy in a brief ceremonial sitting at the High Court on Monday this week. The 30-year-old Mrs Hilly is of mixed Malaita Province-Isabel Province parentage and studied law at the University of Papua New Guinea (PNG),…