THE Kilu’ufi Hospital Improvement Project is progressing smoothly, with earthworks excavation currently underway. The improvement project is set to transform Kilu’ufi Hospital through the introduction of a new Outpatient Service facility, Maternal and Child Health facilities, Surgical Services, and Diagnostic Services. Once completed, the upgraded hospital will also create additional jobs, offering new employment opportunities…
THE Workers Union of Solomon Islands (WUSI) has issued a 28-day strike notice to the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA). The notice is effective from Friday 10 January. This action follows SIPA’s failure to provide workers with their COVID-19 allowances, a 3.5 per-cent Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) and bonuses from the previous year. WUSI…
A BUSINESS faction within the hardware industry is said to be responsible for putting together a 10-point Memorandum of Demands (MoD) on Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele, sources have revealed. The move is intended to dampen a price war that is brewing in the lucrative hardware industry, resulting in rival political factions being formed and established,…
DEPUTY Prime Minister Bradley Smokey Tovosia is believed to have accepted in-principle a decision to relinquish the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification (MMERE) portfolio with a condition. The Minister wants his proxy to be the new MMERE Minister, mining industry sources confided in Solomon Star this week, implying that nothing would change. A…
THE Malaita Provincial Government (MPG) is set to implement 35 per-cent of its revised 2024/2025 budget in this 2025 financial year. The 35 per-cent of the revised 2024/2025 Budget is worth $11,873,158 and these finances come from the Provincial Capacity Development Fund’s (PCDF’s) Capital Development Fund Budget. Malaita Province was unable to access this budgetary…
THE Malaita Provincial Government (MPG) has officially endorsed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) initiative with the objective of empowering indigenous people through the provision of more business opportunities across the province. This announcement was made by Malaita Province Premier Elijah Asilaua yesterday at the Revised 2024/2025 Budget Meeting in the Provincial Assembly Chamber.…
THE Malaita Provincial Government is in the process of securing land for the construction of a youth hub in Auki, a project valued at SBD3 million. The project will be funded by the National Government through the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs. The youth hub will be a multipurpose facility designed to…
THE Miss Pacific Islands Pageant (MPIP) is an event brining all women representatives of Pacific Island nations together to showcase their cultures and traditions through attires, story-telling, dancing and so forth. Miss Solomon Islands Pageant Director and MPIP Board Member, Joyce Konofilia said MPIP is a Tourism Destination Marketing event and that for Solomon Islands,…
THE Solomon Islands Council of Trade Unions (SICTU) has announced that following a productive meeting with the Prime Minister, it will be embarking on a series of follow-up discussions with key Cabinet Ministers and officials to address important matters concerning public and private sector workers’ work conditions and welfare. SICTU said the series of discussions…
THE country is expecting chances of rainfall for the first quarter of this year from January until March, the Solomon Islands Meteorological Service (SIMS) says this week. SIMS said the seasonal outlook for December 2024 based on two months average value of November and December 2024 of the Central Eastern and South Western Pacific Ocean…