More than 20 young aspiring entrepreneurs graduated last Thursday from the Youth@Work business class. The class spanned 3 weeks and saw the young business men and women learning basic business training which covered topics such as identifying opportunities, managing a business, costing their products and analysing their intended market. The young participants of the Youth@Work…
ABC: An Afghan Australian who was tortured and killed in Afghanistan while visiting relatives was targeted because he was Australian, authorities say. Sayed Habib Musawi, 56, grew up in Helmand Province, in Afghanistan’s south, and came to Australia by boat in 2000. He held an Australian passport and citizenship and lived in Sydney’s west with…
‘Escapes with logging machines’ SAMLIMSAN logging company trading as Macranka Timber Enterprise has allegedly shrugged off a seizure order and escaped with machines. Bishop Tuhenua, a local who operates Isles Tropical Timber Limited in Rennell Island said the logging machineries were ‘silently’ loaded onto two barges and shipped from Rennell Island last week. “The first…
Submits your acquittal report or face serious actions GOVERNEMNT through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) has issued a strong warning to all tourism operators who have benefited from the 2014 tourism funds to submit their acquittal reports to the ministry or will be dealt with accordingly. Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of…
Five provincial Members of the Western Provincial Assembly (MPA) are in for the race s in this year’s General Election. Despite criticism and questions from their wards reports reaching the paper said they have been to Honiara to visit and conform their intention with one political party – United Democratic Party. The intending candidates include…
Western provincial assembly last week passed an additional $4.5 million dollar. The supplementary amount of just under five million dollar is to cover costs and service up until the next budget session which is due to take place March of 2015. Lestor Saomasi provincial finance minister presented the estimates at the full Assembly meeting. He…
The Western provincial executive took a sudden decision at the end of the midterm review of the Western Provincial Full Assembly meeting by appointing a new deputy premier. Winding off the Sine die motion on Friday afternoon last week Hon. Robert Pae Kuve Premier of Western Province announced to the surprise of the sitting MPA’s…
A THREE days workshop on Gender Based Violence (GBV) was successfully conducted in Malaita province last Thursday. About 25 nurses, church women leaders and chiefs from Kilu’ufi hospital and communities around Auki attended the workshop. The workshop focused on gender based violence issue and how to prevent it from affecting women and young girls in…
Their joy was uncontained. It was written all over their faces. It was evident in the chiefly welcome they gave Axiom KB Chief Executive Officer Ryan Mount and his delegation from Honiara. It was heard in their melodious singing in church and expressed in the island feasting and cultural dancing that followed the Axiom KB…
Axiom KB has pledged to support the Kalaenga community school in Sepi Village in Isabel Province with a completion of a permanent classroom and a permanent chapel. Axiom KB Chief Executive Officer Mr Ryan Mount made the pledge when he visited Sepi last Friday for a special thanksgiving service following the High Court ruling upholding…