The first bmobile-Vodafone travelling Cinema night was a huge success last Friday with the plantation works of GPPOL enjoying the movie, early Friday evening. Reports reaching the paper said, the crowd of around 300 who showed up to watch was well behaved. There was no disruptions at all during the movie including the no rain.…
A delegation from the Ministry of Lands led by the Minister Andrew Maneporaa visited Auki last week to negotiate with landowners to buy land for town expansion. Permanent Secretary Stanley Wale last night said, the urban expansion program will result in the purchase of land for commercial, industrial and residential development. He said during the…
Prime Minister Hon Manasseh Sogavare last week received the draft of the National Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) policy and draft National Broadcasting policy is now with the Prime Minister. PM Manasseh Sogavare formally received the policies last week for consideration and possible endorsement. The draft policies were presented to him by Dr Andrew Simpson,…
THE Government has denied claims its ministers have close links with Indonesian mining firm PT Mega Bintang Borneo. The controversial company has been illegally extracting bauxites on Rennell despite the cancellation of its licence. Government Media Consultant, Alfred Sasako, while denying any ministerial links with Bintang, said the decision to grant an export permit to…
EUROPEAN Union together with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community SPC and Solomon Islands Government has successfully completed the youth’s deep sea mining debate, Thursday night. The debate involves 14 youths and student from various high schools around Honiara after a weeklong series of information gathering and sessions about the good and bad sides of…
KOREA International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has donated a total of 1,037 items to the Ministry of Forest and Research, Thursday. The items were handed in a short ceremony held at the ministry’s headquarters at Lengakiki. The donation comes after the signing of the Record of Discussions on 10 October 2013, between KOICA and the ministry.…
THE Provincial Police Commanders (PPCs) of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF), stationed in provinces throughout the country, are to assist with the community consultations on the staged limited rearmament of the RSIPF. This follows a presentation on the staged limited rearmament of the RSIPF during the annual PPC’s conference held in Honiara between…
SOLOMON Airlines says its Dash 8 aircraft will be temporarily taken out of service as part of its planned maintenance with a down time from Sunday 7th to Tuesday 9th June 2015. The national carrier’s General Manager Operations & Commercial, Gus Kraus said the maintenance program is standard practice for the aircraft. “Scheduled maintenance of…
The High Court will today hear the case of the recent Parliament Entitlement Commission (PEC) awards of tax free pay for 50 MPs and pension entitlement for newly elected MPs. This was scheduled recently in the High Court’s time table attendance into civil cases hearing for this year. A day that the public of Solomon…
THE Parliamentary Opposition Group has expressed grave concerns over the revelations this week of the involvement of senior Cabinet ministers in the bauxite export saga. In a statement, the Parliamentary Opposition says the revelations in the Island Sun newspaper are serious, as they border on corruption, and serious allegations of conflict of interest on the…