OPPOSITION Leader Hon Matthew Wale has described sarcastic climate change comments by a government minister on social media as insensitive and shameful. This followed a news article published on social media recently, which carried the President of the Federated Stated of Micronesia David W Panuelo’s letter to Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare raising concerns on the…
Solomon Ports this week welcomed the arrival of three new modern ‘Lashing Cages” at Honiara International Port. This is the first time for SIPA to use such equipment, and the second Port in the Pacific Region to have such equipment in its operation. These lifting cages are designed and will be used to improve the…
Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Spey, one of the Royal Navy’s most modern ships, will transit Solomon Islands territorial waters, including close to the capital, Honiara, on 4th and 5th April as part of its first tour of the South Pacific. Since December 2021, HMS Spey has travelled from the UK via Hawaii, conducting…
Q: Why should China and Solomon Islands sign security agreement? A: Solomon Islands has bitter memories of social unrest in the past decades since its independence. In November 2021, riot broke out again in Honiara and resulted in huge property losses and social panic. The government of Solomon Islands decided to diversify its international security…
GP gov’t to reclaim debts through law suits The total remaining SBD$9 million debts owed to several creditors by successive Guadalcanal Provincial Governments (GPG) over the years, will have to go through lawsuits, according to Premier Francis Sade. This was stated in his Sine Die speech in the Chamber last Tuesday. Premier Sade highlighted that…
The National Statistics Office (NSO) continues to progress the analyses of the results of the 2019 Population and Housing Census towards a planned release of the results later this year. Following a meeting convened on Wednesday 23rd March, the NSO officers within the various units in the department organized into pairs and groups, and were…
More of SINU’s internal ‘dirty laundry’ keeps coming out GOVERNMENT-sponsored students who owed the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) more than $3 million in meals and accommodation costs in 2020 were issued credit notes, it was revealed this week. The latest revelation was made by the Business Investment & Commercial Services (BICS) Finance Officer, Jimmy…
THE recent security deal signed by the governments of Solomon Islands and China might backfire and create an internal division within the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF), it was revealed. While the DCGA government thinks it has provided all that the country needs when it comes to the country’s so-called internal security by getting…
MALAITA Provincial Premier Daniel Suidani says the national government has failed to attend to people’s grievances which led to the November riot. Speaking during the Malaita Provincial Assembly budget meeting last week, the Malaita Premier is of the view that the national government is being ignorant when it comes to addressing people’s grievances. He said…
CHAIRMAN of the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee and MP for East Are’Are Hon. Peter Kenilorea Jr. is in Strasbourg, France this week to preside over his first face-to-face meetings in his capacity as the President of the Organization of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly…