THE New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carmel Sepuloni and her delegation left the country yesterday after holding morning tea with a team of RSE workers in Honiara. Minister Sepuloni along with the New Zealand Minister for Pacific Peoples, Barbara Edmonds, joined local RSE workers during a pre-departure briefing for…
Vice Chancellor of the 10-year-old SINU, Professor Transform Aqorau, highlights the importance of the only national tertiary institution to the future of the country SOLOMON Islands University (SINU) plays a very important role in shaping the future of the country through the development of its human resource. This was highlighted by the newly appointed Vice…
A NZ Government delegation led by DPM and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carmel Sepuloni, will fly into Honiara tomorrow for a two-day visit during which they will hold discussions with the government and visit NZ-funded projects THE New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carmel Sepuloni, is due to arrive…
THE Honiara City Council (HCC) is appealing to people who have built illegal market stalls along roads within the city to voluntarily remove their market stalls immediately and warns that failure to comply will result in their demolition by Police and HCC Law Enforcement. “HCC as an institution which is mandated to look after the…
THE National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) of Papua New Guinea and its sister public broadcaster, the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) on Tuesday signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the areas of exchange of staff, sharing of news content and technical cooperation. The MoU was signed by the Managing Director of NBC, Mr Kora…
THE Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) will mount an operation for the next parliament sitting which commences next Monday. Police Officers will conduct proactive patrols and do road checks in parts of Honiara City. A good number of police officers will be involved in this parliament sitting. This includes Police officers from Honiara, Guadalcanal…
A MAN accused of an armed robbery incident at the Greenland Enterprises Ltd Office at Henderson, Central Guadalcanal, early this year will take his plea next week. Ben Abitalo, 24, will be entering his plea to the charge of armed robbery. It was heard on Tuesday that the prosecution has just received the Closed-circuit Television…
THE Malaita Provincial Police Commander (PPC), Superintendent Leslie Kili, has called on the Malaita public to respect police officers. PPC Killi made the call after a male police officer was assaulted in Auki recently while carrying out his policing duty. According to PPC Kili, two boys who were under the influence of Kwaso attacked and…
People of Ward 5 in the Fataleka Constituency shocked at the disqualification of their MPA Daniel Suidani from the Malaita Provincial Assembly by the MPGIS Minister THE disqualification of Malaita Provincial Assembly Member for Ward 5, former Premier Daniel Suidani, from the assembly seat does not go down well with the people of the ward.…
THE former Malaita Province Premier, Daniel Suidani, is expected to speak at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in which will be held in New York this month, it was revealed. Speaking exclusively to Solomon Star Auki from Hawaii, the MARA Political Advisor, Celsius Talifilu, who is accompanying the former Premier to this…