QUESTIONS are being asked as to whether the initial design of the Government’s Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) took into account strategic considerations critical to long term returns on the overall tax-payer-funded $320 million investment. “Has the initial design for example embraced target sectors, the level of the proposed investment and returns from those sectors, the…
POLICE Chief Mostyn Mangau has assured members of the public that there is no police front liner protest over unpaid Covid-19 allowances as reported in the media, Thursday. He made this clarification to reporters yesterday at his weekly conference at Rove Police Headquarters. “I want to assure the members of the public that there is…
MPs await RCDF funds from China By ANDREW FANASIANewsroom, Honiara THE politicians will pocket their shares of the Rural Constituency Development Fund (RCDF) contributions of SBD$1.8 million from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) anytime soon. This was revealed by a reliable source within the government. The source who spoke to this paper in anonymity…
JUST as Honiara-based members of the Solomon Islands Nurses Association (SINA) have returned to work after a two-day lightning sit-in protest, another group of frontline workers has threatened staging a similar sit-in protest. Police officers on frontline duties in the emergency zone, which covers the area between Alligator Creek in east Honiara to Poha River…
Ontong Javans livelihood snatched again By ANDREW FANASIAHoniara Newsroom BECH-DE-MER valued at over $500,000 was confiscated in the early morning hours of yesterday at the Honiara wharf by officers from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force. This paper was tipped by a lawyer on Tuesday night that…
CONTRACTORS engaged to collect rubbish around Honiara City are demanding Honiara City Council (HCC) to pay their bills. A contractor responsible for rubbish collection in Vura and Panatina Wards said it had been over five months since their last payment. “We have families and need money to put bread on the table and yet the…
Or the health system spiral down By ANDREW FANASIANewsroom, Honiara THE negative comments made by the government officials and certain individual doctors do not speak well of their capacity as government officials and medical Doctors. Some nurses spoken to this paper who wish to hide their identity said that sentiments like ‘they do not need…
PARLIAMENT will resume next week on Monday the 9th of November according to the Deputy Clerk to parliament, Jefferson Hallu. Asked whether the government has already made known its business for the sitting, Mr. Hallu said, “At the moment we haven’t received any indication of government business for next week’s sitting.” He further added that…
THE man who broke and entered the Honiara City Council (HCC) head office in 2018 and stole a perfume has been sentenced to four years in prison, Tuesday. Frank Firimolea was convicted after a trial on one count of office break-in. Deputy Chief Magistrate Ricky Iomea said believes this sentence will again provide another opportunity…
THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) has approved 47 projects at the value of $587,082 to boost agriculture productivity within the country this year. Minister of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) Senley Levi Filualea said this is to assist cocoa, coconut, oil palm, coffee, kava, root crops, and tree crop farmers and processors under the…