The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) has secured and is anticipating to receive a funding support of USD$19.8 million (SBD165m) soon from the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). This is made possible through the Agricultural Investment for Markets and Nutrition project (AIM-N) and will be financed through grant ($10.8M) and loan ($9M). Minister…
Coconut and cocoa has the huge potential to become the country’s major driver of the local economy. That’s according to Minister for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) Franklyn Derek Wasi. He said currently the country export 4,000 tons of dried cocoa beans that generate new foreign earnings of SBD$247 million per annum, at…
THE Solomon Islands National University (SINU) on Thursday hosted the visiting Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Pat Conroy for a seminar and he took the opportunity to underscore the importance of jobs to Solomon Islands economy and security. Minister Conroy told SINU students present at the seminar held at the Panatina Lecture…
A project for the construction of a Fisheries Research Center at the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) was officially signed early this week. The signing was held on September 16, 2024, at the conference room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade in Honiara. The grant amount for this project is 511 million…
AN application to withdraw the election petition filed against Member of Parliament (MP) for South Guadalcanal Rollen Seleso will be made in court on October 7. Gabriel Suri of Suri’s Law Practice, who represents the petitioner – former MP for South Guadalcanal David Day Pacha – informed the court on Thursday of the petitioner’s intention.…
MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Northwest Guadalcanal, Francis Sade will on October 16 know if the petition case filed against him will be dismissed or not. This followed the hearing of the application to strike out the petition before Judge Howard Lawry on Thursday. Having heard submissions and responses from both counsels, Judge Lawry adjourned…
THE issuance of application forms for seasonal work under the Pacific Australia Labor Mobility (PALM) has been suspended until 2025 to allow the responsible government body to screen applications received during the last two years. Thats according to the Labor Mobility Unit (LMU) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MFAET). An officer…
THE Guadalcanal Premier Willie Atu has commended the Australian Government for including Guadalcanal schools and communities in its Solomon Islands Security and Safety Light Project. This project was announced by the Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Pat Conroy at an event at the Lungga Community High School on the eastern outskirts of…
A PRE-TRIAL conference will be conducted on the election petition case of the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Guadalcanal, Bradley Tovosia on November 29. Judge Augustine Aulanga set the date on Wednesday after refusing to grant the application to strike out the petition filed against MP Tovosia and officers of the Electoral Commission. “Application…
FORMER Member of Parliament for Temotu VATUD Constituency and former Premier of Temotu Province, Clay Forau Soalaoi is now a free man after he was acquitted of the conversion charges against him. Principal Magistrate Fatima Taeburi on Friday 13th September found Soalaoi not guilty of all the 14 counts of conversion against him and acquitted him…