AS humans we cannot live without food or water in a day or so. We only go without food when we are asleep. But once we are awake up, food is always the first thing on our mind. In the mornings, many of us would go to the nearby shops, bread shop, market stalls to…
TEAM Malaita was crowned the champions of the 2023 Solomon Games. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare announced Malaita as the champion during the closing ceremony at the Town Ground Rugby stadium yesterday. “I now have the honor to announce the winner of the Solomon games goes to Malaita province. “Congratulations,” he said. “We have seen the…
THE Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Referral Hospital (NRH), Dr George Malefoasi, has clarified the essential drugs shortage at the National Referral Hospital. This was being interrogated by the media during a Press Conference in the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet yesterday about the essential drug shortage at NRH. Dr Malefoasi…
LED by Lord Bruce from the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament and Francisca Gale, a clerk to the Tynwald, a delegation from the Westminster Foundation for Democracy visited Honiara to continue work with the National Parliament of Solomon Islands on Parliamentary oversight of the budget. This partnership between the UK and Solomon Islands Parliaments will strengthen…
Gov’t official confirms move to open new diplomatic missions in India and UAE as Honiara pushes forward with its Look North policy SOLOMON Islands is opening new diplomatic missions in India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in what is clearly the nation’s new push in the Look North policy. Foreign Affairs and External Trade…
THE Malaita New Government for Fundamental Redirection Government (MNGFR) under the leadership of Premier, Martin Fini, has held its first dialogue with the National Government and a number of international donor partners in Honiara last week. Premier Fini, in his 2023-2024 Budget Speech on the floor of the Malaita Provincial Assembly on Tuesday, announced that…
Remains of fallen US Marines are set to be taken home to their families almost 80 years after the Guadalcanal Campaign following a repatriation ceremony at the Skyline US War Memorial yesterday THE remains of five United States (US) Marines will return home to their families after being buried at Gilbert Camp in East Honiara…
A MAJOR clean-up is set to go ahead in the Western Provincial capital, Gizo, today. This is to prepare for the four-day premiers’ workshop next week. The township is all excited and gearing up for the event that will bring together the country’s provincial leaders for the first time after the COVID-19 pandemic. All premiers…
The Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (OPMC) will be convening a one-week meeting on the draft Federal Constitution for Provincial Premiers in Gizo, Western Province, from 3-6 April 2023. The meeting is to present the Draft Federal Constitution to the Premiers and explain its features, challenges, and implications, and to seek their views…
The High Court sentences a man to six years imprisonment for 2016 White River playing field stabbing incident which left another man dead THE man who caused the death of another man at the White River playing field, West Honiara, in 2016 by stabbing him with a knife has been sentenced to six years in…