ABOUT 60 per cent of water supply Solomon Water generates is lost through theft and leakage. General Manager Richard Austin revealed this on Wednesday when Solomon Water formally received the $150 million water supply improvement project for Honiara and Auki, from the Japanese Government. Mr Austin said people steal water through illegal connections. “There seems…
More than a hundred of direct employees of Malaita provincial government whose salaries have been delayed for almost a week finally received their pay this week. Reports reaching the paper said some of the employees received their pay on Tuesday afternoon. The remaining employees were expected to get their salary through their accounts yesterday afternoon.…
THE Minister of Lands, Housing & Survey Joseph Onika has authorised that the Land and Titles (Amendment) Act 2014 will come into force on 1st December 2014. The primary purpose of these legislative amendments is to introduce a new Land Board, to take over the responsibility for allocating interest in land from the Commissioner of…
BURNS Creek Adventist Primary School (BAPS) on Wednesday staged its first ever annual science fair competition. The competition, which eventuated after a lot of consultation and planning, saw a total of 466 participants from early childhood education (ECE) to grade six compete for the three top prizes. Students were required to design, create and demonstrate…
THIS month’s Youth Market encourages young people to be peacemakers under the theme Peaceful Youth, Happy Isles. “Young people are powerful instruments of peace; when we let them explore peace in their own way we are giving them confidence to become peaceful citizens and to inspire other youths to build peace in their communities,” Youth…
A new community rest house was unveiled at Irigila village,North Vela La Vela in the Western province, Monday this week. The rest-house was the initiative of Irigila community which had begun its construction May this year. The assistance came from Member of Parliament (MP) for North Vella La Vella, Hon. Milner Tozaka. The rest-house featured…
Foreigners residing and working in various organisation and companies in Solomon Islands have been reminded to help Solomon Island Visitors Bureau (SIVB) relay positive things about Solomon Islands abroad instead of something negative. Solomon Island Visitors Bureau (SIVB) marketing manager, Freda Unusi, highlighted this during the 2014 Our Telekom national tourism forum (NTF) held at…
The number of Measles cases is on the rise with more than 500 cases recorded so far in Honiara, Guadalcanal, Malaita and other provinces, health authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Last week two children lost their lives as a result of the outbreak. As part of curbing the spread, the Ministry of Health and World Health…
POLICE have successfully retrieved the boat, believed to have gone missing between Gizo and Choiseul last month. The ray boat, which had in it seven passengers, went missing on its way to Choiseul with only two survivors successfully rescued, a corpse believed to be the driver of the boat (found two weeks after the incident)…
A JUDGE has ordered the lawyer representing a murder accused to provide his sick leave to the court Wednesday. This was after the court was told the lawyer was unable to attend court on Tuesday for the start of the defence case. The defence case was scheduled to start on Monday before presiding judge Francis…