Councillor Dora declares her innocence in ‘questionable payments’ DORA HUAPII IROFIA – the Councillor whose company was at the centre of alleged questionable payments by the Honiara City Council – has denied any wrong doing, declaring her innocence. Cr. Irofia is the member for Cruz Ward in the Honiara City Council. She was the…
Mamae urges public to ‘stay out’ of HCC matters FORMER Mayor and City Councillor for Ngosi Ward, Wilson Mamae has urged the public to refrain from making further blatant allegations and allow the responsible authorities to deal with HCC matters as stipulated in the Special Audit Report. In an exclusive interview with this paper…
THE Makira Ulawa Provincial Premier, Julian Maka’a is appealing to the Ministry of Provincial Governments and Institutional Strengthening to revisit a Memorandum of Understanding it should have discussed with the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development to have the provinces to deliver services on its behalf. He made the appeal at the handover ceremony…
NO formal agreement between the United States (SU) and the Solomon Islands Governments is required for the SCALE program to move forward, the United States Embassy in Port Moresby said on Thursday. “As I mentioned yesterday (on Wednesday), because SCALE is managed by a USAID implementing partner – and not the SIG, a formal partnership…
STUDENTS owe the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) nearly $123 million in unpaid tuition fees, the latest figures released by SINU earlier this week have shown. The Solomon Star has obtained a copy of the list, which also shows details of students, their faculties as well as how much they owe in unpaid tuition fees.…
THE death of a young engineer earlier this week has re-ignited the debate over who should be responsible for cleaning up World War II unexploded bombs in Solomon Islands. People of all walks of life – young and old – took to the social media this week arguing the pros and cons of the debate…
Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) in Tulagi Police Station in the Central Province have arrested a 44-year-old male person for allegedly having sexual intercourse with her own mother. The victim in this case is between 65 to 70 years old from Vuturua village in small Ngela and the incident occurred on 8…
‘KG VI students received WASHBAY 85’ IT was mission accomplished when the new ‘Wash-Bay’ was officially handed over to King George Sixth (KG VI) School by former scholars’ class of 85-89 as their gift to their former school yesterday. Dubbed as ‘WASHBAY 85’ both the Chairman of the class of 85-89 John Adifaka Jnr…
Says Opposition Leader based on ‘Special Audit Report’ and ‘Sore Report’ THE Leader of Opposition Matthew Wale calls on the Minister for Home Affairs to quickly dissolve the Honiara City Council (HCC) and to review its structure. The call was made in light of the damning allegations of corrupt activities made in the Special Audit…
EXTORTION allegedly involving one Honiara City Councillor is the latest accusation to emerge from the report into the Honiara City Council financial affairs. A member of the public told Solomon Star on Tuesday the Councilor “used his position … to try to extort a huge amount of money from me.” “When the chairman of his ward…