MYSTERY surrounds the de-registration of Vella Development Company [VDC] – a people’s business entity on Vella Lavella. Board members told Solomon Star yesterday they were only made aware of the de-registration today (Monday). Angry board members are pointing the finger of blame on none other than the Minister of Commerce, Industries, Immigration and Labour, Kologeto,…
A WOMAN has been sentenced recently to seven years and six months in prison over the death of an elderly woman in Malaita in 2016. Judge, Leonard Maina sentenced Ida Gwaro after she entered a guilty plea for manslaughter charge. The period of more than six years Gwaro already spent in custody was also taken…
The National Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) are investigating an arson incident at Malaita Outer Island (MOI). The investigation was established after a semi-permanent house belonging to the Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) for Sikaiana ward 33 burnt down to ashes on 16 October 2022. It was alleged…
Vella Development Company plan for peaceful protest VELLA Development Company [VDC] – a people’s business entity on Vella Lavella – is calling on the Board of the Copra Export Marketing Authority (CEMA) to stop opening a buying centre on the island until the ownership issues of plantations on the island are sorted. A VDC spokesperson…
Young boy in stable condition A 10-year-old from Jejevo Katova district, in Isabel province is lucky to be alive after he was attacked multiple times by a crocodile while floating on a tire tube on Friday. Kingstone Siofi was swimming with his friends on a floating tube when the deadly beast emerged from nowhere and…
Senior citizen, Sir Nathaniel Waena has congratulated Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare’s prudent and tactical approaches and decisions on important national issues. The former Governor General and former member of Parliament for Ulawa Ugi, Sir Waena personally conveyed these remarks to the Prime Minister. “Your politics is not restricted to the might of power but…
MALAITA Deputy Premier, Glen Waneta, has labelled the visit by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to the northern region of the province this week as ‘not by mistake.’ Speaking at the ground breaking-ceremony for the Suafa Bay Economic Growth Centre in Lau-Mbaelelea Constituency on Tuesday, Mr Waneta shared a message about ‘compass.’ The Deputy Premier used…
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade has acknowledged that among the most significant benefits of the PACER+ agreement to the Solomon Islands is the Labour Mobility Arrangement. Trade Commissioner of MFAET, Barrett Salato made this acknowledgement during a two-days PACER+ Trade in Goods and Trade in Services national dialogue on the 25th and…
TWO officials from Immigration Department within the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Labour and Immigration are in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG) for a series of meeting with their counterparts. This was confirmed by the country’s High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (PNG) His Excellency (HE) William Soaki in a statement following a jointing meeting…
Canberra announces new aid funding to Solomon Islands as it moves to build a stronger Pacific family AUSTRALIA will provide an estimated AUD$169-Million in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) to Solomon Islands in 2022-23, including AUD$103-Million bilaterally, the Australian High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, Dr Lachlan Strahan announced, Thursday. This announcement comes as Canberra pledges to…