MILE 6 LOGGING PLAN CANCELED

PLANS to harvest trees at Gizo’s Mile 6 area in Western Province are no longer on the agenda of the Western Provincial Government. A provincial government source told Solomon Star that last year the David Gina led provincial government planned to log the Western Provincial Government owned site to boost the provincial government finances. Following…

Appeal for Baby Israel

A FAMILY in Honiara is desperately appealing to the general public for donations to meet medical expenses for three month old Israel Rovaly Katara. Baby Israel is diagnosed with Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA) – a defect of the heart in which his two main arteries carrying blood out of his heart are switched…

East Malaitans quell rumours

Leader clarifies reports on Faumamanu meetings AN East Kwara’ae leader, Samson Kwasi has called on the M4D-MARA leaders, associates and journalists to be mindful of publishing false and fabricated information on Facebook and the Print Media to stir public resentment and causing further divisions among Malaitans. A published statement by the East Malaita Watch page…

Chinatown clean-up set to start

THE Cleaning up of the Chinatown will begin on Tuesday. The Honiara City Council in collaboration with the Solomon Islands Government on Friday announced that the formal start date for the General Disaster Waste Clean-up on the locations destroyed during the last year’s Honiara Civil Unrest. It stated that the Disaster Waste Clean-up was part…

Suidani wants police to honor dialogue

Malaita Premier, Daniel Suidani and Malaita’s new Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Leslie Kili last week entered a positive dialogue. In the dialogue, PPC Kili asked the Malaita Premier to talk to MARA government supporters to stay calm and allow police to carry out its duty in Auki without interference from MARA supporters. During the dialogue,…