PM requests visa-waver from NZ

PRIME Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has requested the New Zealand (NZ) Government to reciprocate the visa-waver arrangement that Solomon Islands is currently offering to NZ. The Prime Minister made the request in a courtesy meeting with the NZ Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee delegation that visited Honiara last week. The Prime Minister’s Press Secretariat described…

Kunu water project progressing well

WORK on improving and securing the water source in Kunu community near the Malaita Provincial capital, Auki, is progressing well and nears completion. Kunu, a community with no water supply from Solomon Water depends almost entirely on the water source for washing and cooking. Lately, the Community Access & Urban Service Enhancement (CAUSE) Project saw…

US HOSTS SUIDANI

Former Malaita Premier Suidani given government-in-exile option discussions hosted by Washington DC A GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE is one of two options the United States reportedly discussed with former Premier Daniel Suidani in Washington DC in recent weeks, it was revealed this weekend. The first one is funding his political campaign when he returns (to) Solomon Islands (SI)…

ADB visits new USP campus in SI

THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday led a media tour of the almost complete, expanded campus of the University of the South Pacific in Honiara which will provide students better access to higher education. Funded by a $15.4 million concessional loan and a grant of $1.5 million from the ADB-administered Clean Energy Fund, the Higher Education…

Man arrested for attempted murder in Auki

Police in Auki have arrested a 42-year-old male person for attempted murder at Auki wharf this morning (17 March 2023). The incident occurred this morning on board MV Express Pelican II while berthing at Auki wharf preparing for its departure to Honiara. Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Malaita Province, Superintendent Leslie Kili said the 42-year-old suspect is…

Japan hands over new modern airport facility to SI

IN an official ceremony at the Honiara International Airport on Wednesday, Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare on behalf of the Government and People of Solomon Islands received the newly completed Japan-funded airport improvement project from the Japanese Ambassador to Solomon Islands, Miwa Yoshiaki. Through an SBD$300-million funding support from Tokyo through the Japanese International Corporation Agency,…