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),…
NEWLY appointed Magistrate, Hayniel Max, never dreamt he would one day end up on the Bench. The 33-year-old had another career path in mind but that all changed when two lawyers visited his village during the festive season in 2015. “I wasn’t motivated as I am now with the aim to do further studies and…
The New Zealand Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee Delegation currently visiting Honiara has had a fruitful dialogue with Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare MP. Introducing the delegation, chairperson Jenny Salesa explained, the visit is to…… “strengthen bilateral relationships, inform the Committee’s current inquiry into fisheries in the Pacific, gain insights into Solomon Islands Covid-19…
SKILLED workers employed in various offices, including government ministries, who successfully applied for recruitment under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) Scheme, have resorted to lies to get their way through the interviews and application procedures and this trend is continuing. A source told Solomon Star recently that a good number of skilled workers currently…
Malaita Premier Martin Fini has declared Malaita Province’s readiness to engage with the National Government and other development stakeholders meaningfully MALAITA is ready to engage, Premier Martin Fini, has declared after initial discussions with the National Government and other development stakeholders. “I am pleased to announce that Malaita, under the Malaita New Government Fundamental Redirection…
POLICE are continuing to appeal to families and relatives of the suspect in the stabbing incident inside a public transport bus along the Mbokonavera-Skyline road in Honiara early this year to surrender him to police. The Police Media Unit said police were unable to arrest the suspect as he has no permanent address and has…
A delay to the project planning due to the COVID 19 outbreak in 2020 and the subsequent travel restrictions that pushed back the actual construction work to early 2021 did not deter the Government and People of Japan in delivering the Honiara International Airport Project on time especially before Solomon Islands hosts the Pacific Games…
IN May 2022, Beiporo Primary school on Vella La Vella, Western Province, signed a grant support worth $686,000 with the Japanese Government for the construction of a new classroom complex. This month, ten months on from the signing ceremony, the two-storey complex stands complete. For head teacher, Robson Apusae, this is a success story because…