VOTERS from North East Guadalcanal and Central Honiara Constituencies will go to the polls on the 18th November to elect their members of parliament. The election date instrument was signed by His Excellency, the Governor-General, Sir David Vunagi at the Government House and published in the gazette on Tuesday. Chief Electoral Officer Jane Waetara in a…
PNG to reduce tertiary assistance to SI By ANDREW FANASIANewsroom, Honiara PAPUA New Guinea (PNG) Government will reduce its scholarship assistance to Solomon Islands students under a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which is yet to be framed. PNG Commissioner to Solomon Islands Dr John Balavu told the Solomon Star in an exclusive interview in…
PRIME Minister (PM) Manasseh Sogavare says the Solomon Islands Government has been blessed to receive assistance towards meeting the financial expense of the Philippines students as they go into hotels awaiting their return flights home. Speaking during his weekly nationwide address on Monday, Sogavare said thanks to our State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) and private sector for…
Solomon Islands Electricity Authority trading as Solomon Power Ltd has contributed 1 million dollars towards the ‘Bringing Our Students Home Project.’ In his opening remarks during the brief handover at the Ministry of Finance and Treasury on Tuesday, Secretary to Prime Minister Dr. Jimmie Rodgers thanked Solomon Power for contributing towards bringing our students from the Philippines home…
Sending money home to friends and family in the Solomon Islands will be cheaper for ANZ customers from Monday after ANZ announced the temporary waiver of its $7 international money transfer fee for online foreign currency payments made from Australia and New Zealand into ten Pacific countries. ANZ customers in Australia and New Zealand…
North-West Guadalcanal Development Association (NWGDA) last Friday had successfully held its Covid-19 training at Pisei meeting area in North West Guadalcanal. Guadalcanal Province Manager for Covid-19 Dr. Angela Tahani and Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Health Promotion Acting Director Anne Toncan Eli facilitated the one-day training for NWGDA villages’ representatives and coordinators. During the…
The Solomon Islands Government continues to work on sorting out expired Visas of students studying in the Philippines. This is according to Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, MP during his weekly National Address. According to the Prime Minister, out of the 161 students that had problems with their Student Visas last week, 73 of them had…
Opportunists are back on the roads in Malaita Province demanding money for patching affecting areas along the North Road. This came following a heavy downpour felt in the province lately. Transport providers along the North Road told Solomon Star Auki that they hardly make a profit from their daily runs because of the high demand…
THE Camp Management Sector Management assures the country that the camp team will always do what it has mandated to do to contain any possible Covid-19 cases in the country. The sentiment was echoed by the Camp Management Sector Management Chair Karl Kuper in his response to a question asked during the weekly radio talk-back…
A MAN who lied to four people and stole more than $21,000 from them early this year in Honiara has been sentenced to a total of four and a half years in prison, Monday. Danny Lapa was also ordered to make full repayments of $21,400 to his four victims 28 days after his release from…