NEWLY appointed LEAF (Learning and Ecological Activities Foundation) committee conducted their first field trip to the Ranadi dump site, East Honiara yesterday. The committee was led by the Vice Chairman of Solomon Islands LEAF committee, Nelson Manepora of Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB). The new committee was appointed during a stakeholders’ meeting held at the…
JAPAN International Corporation Agency (JICA) yesterday formed a local committee to administer a two years program called LEAF (Learning and Ecological Activities Foundation) that deals with the recycling, exporting of bottles and separation of waste mixture within the Honiara City. LEAF is a program that contributes to the development of a sustainable society by initiating…
A number of Solomon Islands Government (SIG) sponsored students studying overseas have criticized the Members of Parliament (MP) tertiary scholarship scheme that is currently being practiced. They said that many students with high grade point averages (GPA) are left out in such scheme and they see this as another ignorance of equal benefit sharing. A…
UP to one thousand and four hundred students undertaking various courses at the Solomon Islands national university (SINU) will be graduating tomorrow at Maranatha Hall, Lunga, east of Honiara. This was revealed by the university’s finance department yesterday afternoon after most of the graduating students with fee arrears rushed in to settle their fees with…
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MORE than 20 Solomon Islands National University (SINU) graduating students who are yet to settle their fee arrears with the university have begged for another chance to settle theirs today. This came after they have turned back at the SINU’s finance division after trying to settle their fees yesterday later afternoon but the office was…
THE office of the market master plans to provide scales to fish vendors at the Honiara central market to avoid vendors robbing customers by adjusting their scales. That was according to assistant market master Steve Batabiriala in an interview with the Solomon Star on Tuesday. “The idea of providing scales to fish vendors is to…
Plans are underway to improve the standard of Honiara central market. Market master Saxon Ofata highlighted this during an interview with the Solomon Star on Tuesday. Mr Ofata who just took up the market master post last month said, under his new management the team is working very hard this year to improve the standard…
A LOCAL pressure group has urged Small Malaita MP Rick Hou and Permanent Secretary for Planning Shadrach Fanega to stand aside while charges of official misconduct are hanging over their heads. Head of Malaita Ma’asina Forum Charles Dausabea made the call on Wednesday. Mr Hou and Mr Fanega are being charged by the Leadership Code…
Body found in shallow grave A HIGH school female student is in police custody after the body of a male baby was discovered in the Henderson area, Sunday morning. Guadalcanal Provincial police commander, Stanley Riolo, told the Solomon Star his officers arrested the student Tuesday afternoon. “We believe she is the mother of the dead…