PM took $5m and bought old hulk Elizabeth Ann PARLIAMENT Member of North Malaita Hon Jimmy Lusibaea calls for on an enquiry into the shipping grant received by the Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare who is also MP of East Choiseul. In an exclusive interview yesterday Mr Lusibaea who was recently terminated by the Caucus as…
Party says Rini’s move not negotiable Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s proposal to reshuffle the Minister of Finance and Treasury Snyder Rini and the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources John Maneniaru has hit a snag, government sources reveal. The United Democratic Party (UDP) which both Prime Minister Sogavare and Minister Rini are members of is…
RSIPF with the assistance from local diving company, Tulagi Dives today located and recovered the body of the missing Asian crew from a tug boat that sunk off Bungana Island in the Central Islands Province in the early evening of Thursday 27 July 2017. There were seven crew members on board the tug boat when…
RSIPF Guadalcanal Officers today recovered the stolen plaque from the WWII memorial at Bloody Ridge East of Honiara and are in search for a suspect who allegedly removed the plaque last weekend. The plaque was only installed during the recent commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal during the Second World…
PERMANENT Secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Andrew Nihopara on Monday denounced the vandalisation of a plaque at the United States Bloody Ridge World War II Monument. “This type of behaviour must be condemned by every Solomon Islander in the strongest terms. “It is unfortunate and rather very disrespectful act by someone with…
Poor road conditions and unwanted demands from opportunists has forced transport providers along the East Road in Malaita province to halt services in the transportation business. A local business man who wants his name withheld from publication told the Solomon Star office in Auki that he was now giving up on the transport business because…
Honiara City Police officers have arrested the suspect in an alleged assault on two New Zealand (NZ) naval officers at a night club in the capital on the night of Friday 4 August 2017. The two NZ naval officers were in Honiara as part of the recent 75th Battle of Guadalcanal Anniversary Commemorations. Following the…
Grandchildren of the US Coast Guard Commander Ray Evans were thankful to be part of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal in Honiara last week. Evans, 92, passed away in 2013 and was the one who served alongside Douglas Munroe and moreover was the last survivor of the Marines who were pinned down…
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program Private Sector Window, is lending $10 million to National Fisheries Developments (NFD) Limited to support sustainable tuna production and employment in Solomon Islands. This loan is IFC’s second investment to support the tuna industry in Solomon…
Bred Bank will slowly expand its services throughout the country as things continue to progress, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Owen Thomson assured. Speaking to the Solomon Star in an exclusive interview, CEO said they will see how things progress as they have just open up their banking business last Friday. He says that option to…