COMMUNITIES and villages in Renbel, Western-Shortland Islands, Temotu and Malaita Provinces have been commended for their support demonstrated towards the success of the national Village Resource Survey (VRS) and Household Listing 2017-2018 initial phase in 2017. The survey was conducted under the responsibility of Solomon Islands National Statistics Office (SINSO). Government Statisticians (GS) Douglas Kimi…
WAGINA community in Choiseul province has been blessed with a new community hall (Te Maniaba) which was officially opened on Sunday the 14th of January. The Te Maniaba known as the Holy Family Maniaba was about 40 meters in length and 20 meters wide was built since 2016. The solemn ceremony commenced with the Eucharistic…
Constituents fight over roofing irons By LYNNISSHA RUNA SOME constituents in North Malaita reportedly fought over 6,000 sheets of roofing iron their MP sent to the constituency just before Christmas. Eye-witnesses told the Solomon Star the incident occurred at Malu’u sub-station when the barge carrying the roofing iron arrived there. “Our MP Jimmy Lusibaea actually…
A Church movement called Kingdom is gaining momentum with a lot of attention in Central Kwara’ae, Malaita province. This came after the church had attracted a lot of youths and people to follow its teaching. According to a Church leader in one of the mainstream Churches in Auki, said the movement has its own ways…
THE National Training Unit (NTU) has arranged seven plane charters to fly students studying in Fiji this year. NTU chief administration officer Hubert Gua revealed the arrangement this week as new and continuing students prepare to leave for Fiji for another year of study. He said the first charter will leave on January 27. “We’ve…
THE INDIGENOUS Bus Owners Association of Solomon Islands (IBOASI) will re-submit their proposal to Honiara City Council after it failed to act on it since 2015. This came after buses have protested HCC’s re-introduced long bus route on Tuesday citing costs of fuel and bad road conditions in and on the outskirts of the city.…
The Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) has welcomed the assurance by Prime Minister Hon Rick Hou to continue the Prime Minister’s Media Excellence Award introduced by his predecessor. MASI President Deli Oso said the association welcomes and acknowledges Prime Minister Hou’s assurance. Mrs Oso said she and Members of the MASI Executive along with…
FOUR female police officers are among 27 police officers who were being promoted to sergeant and senior sergeants’ ranks recently. Supervising Police Commissioner, Juanita Matanga told journalists at the commissioner’s weekly conference she made the announcement of the promotions on Thursday morning. “This morning, I announced the promotion of Non Commissioned Officers (NCO) or senior…
SUPERVISING Police Commissioner Juanita Matanga says the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) executives have no power over the management of the Police Credit Union. Ms Matanga made this clarification on Thursday at the police commissioner’s weekly conference in relation to complaints raised by some of the Credit Union members last year. “For you information,…
WHY STUDENTS UNPLACED By TEDDY KAFO LACK of space to slot in students performing below average has been one of the factors which resulted in some students unplaced in this year’s result. That’s according to Minister of Education John Dean Kuku. He said space in higher secondary forms has been one of the factors for…