FOREIGN Affairs minister Clay Forau Soalaoi joined his Pacific Islands Colleagues in Istanbul from June 7-8 to discuss way and means of enhancing cooperation between Turkey and the Pacific’s Small Islands Developing States (SIDS). The talks were held between Pacific Islands foreign ministers and their Turkish counterpart. Solomon Islands has a growing cooperation with Turkey,…
Gov’t urged to cut ties with investor THE Joint Civil Society Groups & Concerned Citizens (JCSG & CC) is calling on Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo and responsible government authorities to immediately terminate all contracts involving Evita Solomon Limited and urgently declare its Executives persona-non-grata in Solomon Islands. The call comes in the light of…
RAPID migration to cities and towns, driven by scarce public services and jobs in rural areas, is producing a profound social shift in Pacific Island countries, where agrarian life has dominated for generations. But the urban dream remains elusive as a severe lack of housing forces many into sprawling, poorly-serviced informal settlements. In the southwest…
HARSH northern winter in the US along with the Ukraine conflict have chilled the outlook for global economic growth this year, but highly developed economies will lead a rebound later in the year, the World Bank has projected. The bank trimmed its global growth forecast to 2.8 per cent for the year, from its 3.2…
The Autonomous Bougainville Government passed a Bill on Friday to authorise expenditure from the Special Intervention Fund Trust Account to implement a range of priority projects. The fund is a grant for ABG which the Government appropriated, K200 million (US$73 million) for last year and this year under its K500 million (US$184 million) a year…
PRIME Minister Lilo and his deputy Manasseh Maelanga silently left Honiara yesterday to their respective provinces, resulting in the cancellation of a planned joint press conference with visiting Australian justice minister Michael Keenan. Mr Lilo travelled out to the Western Province to attend the funeral of the founder of the Christian Fellowship Church (CFC) Sir…
A FORMER police officer will be re-sentenced in the Honiara Magistrate Courts after successfully appealing his sentence. Ubaldo Tiva was sentenced in 2010 for one count of reckless and dangerous driving and careless driving. The court has imposed a total fine of $1,500 in default of two months, twenty days. His driving licence was also…
NO further progress has been made so far on the case of the two Chinese nationals facing larceny charges. This was because they have no interpreters to translate the court proceedings or for the prosecutors or lawyers to get instructions from them. Xu Jie Ping (fmale) and Zhau Zhen Wei (male) could only speak and…
POLICE at Tetere, northeast Guadalcanal, arrested a second suspect in relation to a murder incident at Dudula at Tasimboko area in 2011. An off duty police officer spotted the accused working on the palm oil farm yesterday morning, when he quickly alerted the Guadalcanal Police headquarters which led to his arrest. The accused saw police…
A TAIWANESE national accused of attempting to export tubi logs out of the country will face the court again on June 17. This is for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to serve his lawyer with the disclosures. Hsieh Chen Chin Fu was charged with one count of attempted export of prohibited goods.…