THE SPEAKER, Prime Minister and the Governor General have been named in a Constitutional challenge that could result in the National General Elections being held this year. The legal suit challenging the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2022 was filed in the High Court earlier this week. It claimed the passage last September of the Bill, which…
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Defence, Richard Marles underscores the importance of SIAF as he arrives in Honiara on a mission to further bolster Australia’s longstanding partnership with Solomon Islands THE Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, is current in the country to build on the longstanding partnership…
A SUSPECT has been arrested by Gizo Police following the break-in incident at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Gizo, Western Province, in which the church lost $50,463 worth of cash and equipment. The suspect was apprehended by Noro Police officers on Tuesday afternoon and subsequently transported back to Gizo Police Station on a police…
MEMBERS of the public in Auki have called on the Malaita Provincial Government (MPG) and owners of the Auki Fish Market to connect running water to the market for vendors to wash their fish catches. A regular visitor to the Auki Fish Market, Francis Folia said it is a regular practice that fish vendors usually…
THE public in Western Province are questioning the high cost of unpaid electricity bills by the second biggest hospital in the province – Helena Goldie Hospital. One of the concerned members of the public is a Provincial Member of the Assembly (MPA). The MPA who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Solomon Star that…
LIMITED manpower resource has been a challenge for the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIFP) in the Western Province. This was highlighted by the Police Provincial Commander (PPC), Matthias Lenialu, in an interview with the Police Media Unit over the National Broadcaster – Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) – last week. He said the province…
A medical doctor at NRH pleads for generous financial assistance towards the travel costs of six children to Fiji by July 1 to undergo life-saving surgeries SIX children with congenital heart disease need generous financial support to undergo life-saving surgeries at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Hospital in Fiji. Dr Baddley Ludawane of…
Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare MP today had a bilateral meeting with the Australian deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Richard Marles. Deputy Prime Minister Marles used the official engagement to reaffirm Australia’s bilateral relations and cooperation with Solomon Islands and also made announcements in key areas of cooperation which include the support for…
Police are investigating a suspicious death of a Novice brother of the Church of Melanesia whose body was found with deep wounds lying at the seaside close to Tolegu village at Havulei district in Isabel Province. The National Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) are working closely with Buala police…
THE young man who caused the death of another man whose body was found lying at the bottom of the steep hill at Botanical Garden in 2020 has been sentenced to four years in prison. Ruben Jayrick Hitu, 26, was sentenced this week following his conviction after a trial for one count of manslaughter. Justice…