The Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Investment, the Hon Steven Ciobo MP, is visiting the country starting on Tuesday. This will be Australia’s first high-level visit to Solomon Islands since its national elections in November 2014. Mr Ciobo during the three days visit will have the opportunity to meet…
Victims of the RHA Consultancy, a money laundering scheme illegally operated bya local Robert Henry Alufurai have questioned the investigation process. And they have queried the Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) how far they have gone with the investigation in to the scam business. Mr Alufurai…
An expensive government vehicle was badly damaged when it veered off the road and crashed in the Alligator Creek area, east Honiara, over the weekend. The G-plated vehicle with plate number G-3634 was allocated and garaged by the recently assigned Provincial Police Commander for Guadalcanal Province, Daniel Hunikera. The incident occurred between 4am and 5am…
A MALAITA man says lack of better infrastructure is one of the major setbacks to development in the Solomon Islands. And Jonah Myles said, that it’s something that the current Democratic Coalition for Change (DCC) government must prioritise and seriously invest into it. He said, that in any development there must be an infrastructure like…
ONE of the country’s state owned school, King George VI is yet to allow its students to move into campus after three weeks of no water. Solomon Water has disconnected water to the school due to delay of payment from Ministry of Finance to pay the outstanding bill. Principal Sam Fangata said, since he came…
Though the number of magistrates has increased, the issue of office and court room space is a problem that needs to be seriously addressed. Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer made a call requesting the government to assist them to build a new court complex for the Central Magistrates’ Court in Honiara. The call was made…
TRANSPORT owners in east Malaita have praised the works of the Labour Based Project (LBP) along east road, Malaita province. Lanour based projects (LBP) were rendered into communities by the Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID) to clean up along the roads. Truck drivers told this paper that they were very happy with the way community…
DISGRUNTLED students of the Solomon Islands National University(SINU) who have completed their studies at the university last year have called for immediate release of their academic transcript. The students made the call after they claimed the SINU management failed to respond to their request for the release of their academic transcript since last year. A…
Tetere Police uproots, destroy marijuana plants Intelligence information gathered prompted Guadalcanal Provincial Police to a conduct an operation near Komukea village in the North East Guadalcanal region on Friday. The operation was coordinated by Tetere police with additional men-power support from Henderson Police Station. Police were informed by members of the community about they suspected…
THE Solomon Airlines board is asked to justify the high salary cap of chief executive officer (CEO), Captain Ron Sumsum. This came after a leaked information stated Sumsum is paid $4.8 million; almost 5 million dollars annually, to make him the highest paid officer in any State Owned Enterprises (SOE) in the country. A prominent…