DISTRAUGHT members of the United Democratic Party (UDP) have questioned Party President, Sir Thomas Chan’s response on Monday’s paper on the issue of Political Appointments (PA) under the Democratic Coalition for Change (DCC) Government. This was following Sir Thomas’s response to critics about the big number of Political Appointees currently under the DCCG that “it…
James Cooper, an Australian Volunteer for International Development (AVID) left the country yesterday after living and working for a year in Solomon Islands. James worked as a legal officer with the Solomon Islands Law Reform Commission (SILRC). The SILRC is an independent statutory body, funded by the government. Its vision is law reform for peace,…
The Solomon Islands National Statistics office within the Ministry of Finance and Treasury convened its second phase of training yesterday at the Red Manson Inn. This training is the second of its kind after the National Statistics Office conducted its first training of trainers in January. The NSO/SIDHS pre-test training is the second set of…
Findem Back Family Association Solomon Islands (FBFASI) is about to establish and operates on its objective to reunite long lost black birding descendants who traced their origin to Solomon Islands. This was reveal by Cecil Ono, the elected president for FBFASI who is currently preparing the relevant documents for the registration of the group. Speaking…
MORE than 500 students have turned up at the University of the South Pacific (USP) Solomon islands campus in Honiara for registration, yesterday. Both new and continuing students have been seen flooding the USP office near Lawson Tama to do their registration. The week long registration will end February 15th. Academic classes for USP will…
THE Honiara City Council (HCC) Deputy City Clerk Ronald Amigo is calling on the general public to help clean the city. This came as the 7-metre by-law came into effect early this month. He also highlighted the need to abide by the law so that people can change their attitude by not littering. Speaking to…
THE recently completed World Bank study on the country’s rural investments has recommended the re-defining of funding streams and the integration of planning processes as vital. The study called, ‘Solomon Islands-towards better investment in rural communities’ had recommended that the three main funding streams of provincial, constituency and community must be clearly specified. The study…
The World Bank funded Rapid Employment Project (REP) Scheme that was implemented by Honiara City Council (HCC) and Ministry of Infrastructure Development has released interesting statistics regarding the project’s progress. According to a statistical progress of the project presented last week, Component 1.a of the project which covers the road repairs and maintenance had created…
AN article published in this paper yesterday regarding tinted vehicles has sparked widespread public criticism both on the internet and around Honiara City. Many have directed critics on the article, its structure and most of all it (article) being too speculative and not having solid proof to establish that tinted vehicles are the cause of…
A NUMBER of landowners have expressed their disappointment over the Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID) mining operation in Rennell, suggesting similar approach to the beche-de-mer saga be applied by setting up a commission of inquiry. A landowner who declined to be named said, that the mining operation by APID has further worsen the land disputed…