Baby killed by the sea

Police charge girl with murder AN 18-year-old girl accused of the murder of her new born baby in 2015 will be appearing again at the Honiara Magistrate’s Court again on September 29. The girl fronted the court on Thursday for the mention of her matter and was further remanded in custody. The alleged incident occurred during…

PORTS $16M INVESTMENT

SOLOMON Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) yesterday commissioned three container cranes worth $16million in Honiara on Tuesday. The 45 ton Kalma reach stackers full container handler was bought from Australia. Kalma officials, SIPA’s chief executive officer, Michael Wate, legal officer Charles Ashley, director engineering, Ronald Ivupitu, chairman of SIPA board Billy Titiulu and staff have witnessed…

MP threatened

Leaders must be protected, a leader’s plea A Member of Parliament (MP) of the ruling Democratic Coalition for Change Government was threatened over the weekend by thugs at the Gilbert Camp area, East Honiara. The MP who does not want to be identified, was traveling with his family to attend Church on Sunday. The alleged…

Gov’t pledges to work with Catholics

The Government has pledged to work together with the newly installed Catholic archbishop, the Most Reverend Christopher Michael Cardone Op. Archbishop Cardone, who was installed last Saturday at the Holy Cross Cathedral, was the third archbishop of Honiara. “I want to commit the partnership of the government of Solomon Islands to your service,” government rep…

Raising literacy

READ SI – Never gives up! DETERMINED to raise literacy and improve living standards in the country, READ SI is a committed NGO and also one of the newest in the nation. It was started at the end of 2014 by Joyce Boykin, a former teacher at KG VI, Woodford International School and USP. Joyce…

PM meets Taiwanese military personnel

TAIWANESE military officers engaged in a United States-Taiwan-Solomon Islands Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Relief and Health Emergency exercise in Honiara over the past three days, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare last Friday. The trilateral exercise saw the deployment of 10 military personnel of Taiwan and six military personnel of the United States…

Major highway ground-breaking this week

THE ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of the Kukum High Way Road Upgrading Project,will he held Wednesday 14th of September. The Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID)confirmed this. MID previously set the ground-breaking ceremony for 1stof this month (September) but now it has been moved to 14th of this month. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare will…

CBSI hailed for gender inclusion policy here

THE 2016 Alliance for Financial Inclusion Global Policy Forum (AFI-GPF) under its Pacific regional sub-group have noted the efforts of the Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) in championing gender-balance in its financial inclusion work. Members of the Pacific Islands Regional Initiative (PIRI) under AFI highlighted this during their major panel session yesterday in front…