Closing submissions for Botanical Garden death Monday CLOSING submissions will be made on the matter of the man charged for the death of another man at the Botanical Garden in 2020, Monday. Ruben Jayrick Hitu faces one count of manslaughter. Justice Maelyn Bird will hear the closing submissions at 1.30pm. Hitu’s co-accused, Tatasi Fati Forau,…
THE first ever major clean-up of Honiara as part of the “Safe and Green Games SOLPG23” in preparation for the city’s hosting of the premier regional sporting event later this year was successfully carried out from Henderson to White River, Saturday. The “Safe and Green Games SOLPG23” campaign was launched by Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare…
DID the Ward 20 Member of the Malaita Provincial Assembly (MPA) and Minister of Works and Transport, Jimmy Rerehe, just let the secret out of the bag during a mobile conversation with a nurse that was overhead by another nurse and a priest? In what was supposed to be a confidential mobile conversation between the…
THE MV VATUD STAR – beached by heavy seas whipped up by tropical cyclone Judy this week – was finally refloated on Friday afternoon as on-lookers and passersby cheered the vessel’s freedom. Heavy seas forced the Vatud Constituency-owned ship to beach on the foreshores of the Prince Philip Highway at Kukum last Wednesday. Large crowd…
The Labour Mobility Unit within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade will establish phone lines to enable members of the public to enquire if their online/email submissions for the LMU recruitment drive is received by the office. This action will be taken as a measure to ensure public trust in the two modes…
PM Sogavare – A target for an US-assisted assassination plot after the Honiara November 2021 riot PRIME MINISTER Manasseh Sogavare was to be assassinated after the success of the November 2021 riot in Honiara, sources deep within the Malaita For Development (M4D) movement have revealed. But the assassination plot – the second step carefully planned…
Official correspondences between the MPGIS Minister, Rollen Seleso and former Malaita Premier, Daniel Suidani show DCGA is not done with Suidani yet as it is working to have him totally removed from the Malaita Provincial Assembly THE Democratic Coalition Government for Advancement is still pursuing the former Malaita Premier, Daniel Suidani, even after he was…
THE Safe and Green Games has been officially launched in Honiara, Friday. More than a thousand people took part in the day’s event hosted at the Lawson Tama Stadium. The initiative was officially launched by the Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in the presence of the City Mayor Eddie Siapu. Prime Minister Sogavare in his speech…
A MAN who allegedly threw a knife that went through her sister’s leg has been charged with murder and is remanded in custody after the death of his sibling at the National Referral Hospital (NRH). At his weekly conference yesterday, Police Commissioner, Mostyn Mangau said the incident happened between 7am and 12pm on 5 January…
Staff of the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) has joined the parade and official launching of the ‘Safe and Green Games SOLPG23’ today (Friday 3rd March 2023). The program kicked off with a parade involving three different locations which are from SMI for Westside group, Honiara City Council (HCC) carpark for Central group and SINU…