DESPITE the nation’s precarious financial situation, the Government forked out $2.7 million to pay for Prime Minister Ricky Hou and his delegation to the recent APEC summit in Papua New Guinea. Chairman of the Public Account Committee and East Honiara MP, Douglas Ete, revealed this yesterday in parliament in his deliberation on the 2018 Supplementary…
THE Minister for Health and Medical Services (MHMS) Dr Kaitu’u should be reassigned by the Prime Minister for neglecting and not demonstrating any sense of urgency about addressing the crisis in our health sector. Chairman for Bills and Legislation Committee and Member for Parliament for Aoke/Langalanga Mathew Wale uttered this in parliament, Wednesday. Mr Wale…
RESOURCES Educational Advance Development in Solomon Islands (READ SI) is a local non-government organisation (NGO) working together with other partners to get more reading materials into primary schools and communities in Solomon Islands. The NGO was established in 2015 purposely to provide a second chance learning mainly for adults and youths who have missed out…
CHIEF Executive Officer (CEO) of the Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and Trade Solomon Islands (ICCTSI) Charles Dausabea is urging police to investigate corruption allegations rather than waiting for someone to lodged a complaint. Speaking to the Solomon Star recently Mr Dausabea said allegations of corruptions were revealed in the media every day, thus police should…
THE Extended Objection and Omission period of the Voter Registrants will end today 29th November 2018. According to the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) Chief Electoral Officer today will be the last day for the public to filing their objection or omission on the provisional lists. Mose Saitala said since the objection period ends today…
They spent $4M a year on lavish lunches to feed their members By ANDREW FANASIA THE GOVERNMENT has been spending $4 million a year to lavishly feed members of Cabinet and Caucus during their weekly meetings. That’s $37,000 a week! Cabinet is normally attended by government ministers, while Caucus meetings are usually attended by government…
‘Time ticking on strike notice’ By ANDREW FANASIA THE Government Lawyers Association (GLA) says the Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs Ethel Sigimanu had out rightly lied and misled the Public Account Committee (PAC) last week. Mrs Sigimanu was responding to a question asked by the Opposition Leader and PAC member Manasseh…
Rodie: Std 6 exam is no longer serving its purpose By IAN MCDONALD THE Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (MEHRD) sole purpose of advocating the termination of the Solomon Islands Secondary Entrance (SISE) exam is to lessen the high push outs from the education system. Permanent Secretary Dr Franco Rodie said according to…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $5 million policy-based grant to support the efforts of the Government of Solomon Islands to implement policy and institutional reforms to progressively improve fiscal sustainability, business climate, public financial management, and service delivery. “The Solomon Islands Improved Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program builds on previous policy-based operations of…
LOCAL journalists attending a week-long Anti-Corruption Reporting, Promotion of Integrity, Transparency and Accountability training in Honiara were being told to write more investigative stories. Vice President of the Media Association Solomon Islands (MASI) and Press Secretary to Prime Minister Douglas Marau reminded the journalists on their ‘watchdog’ role, when speaking at the close of workshop…