More than 300 women from East Choiseul Constituency (ECC) have successfully completed their two-week of intensive life-skills training on 27 June 2023 at the ECC Development Centre in Kerepangara Ward 15, Choiseul Province. The training on sewing, sewing machine troubleshooting, bakery, floral and other important life-skills training for mother and girls was facilitated by Madam…
Local employees of the national stadium bid farewell as the project go towards its completion. The event was held on Saturday on the west stands of stadium, where the project team, National Hosting Authority, and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Labour & Immigration (Labour Division) gathered. The Executive Director of NHA delivered a speech, expressing…
SOLOMON Islands national Futsal team, Kurukuru finished off their first international friendly match against the Australian Futsalroos with a 1-1 draw at the Heffron Centre yesterday. It was a tough contest between the two teams which ended with a nil all draw in the first half. The hosts were the first to find the back…
The Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has endorsed this year’s 45th Independence Anniversary theme following submissions from officials early this month. The theme for this year is “Rising Above and Overcoming our Challenges as One People”. A statement from OPMC today explained that the theme calls for our collective responsibility as one people…
Police are investigating a suspicious death of a Novice brother of the Church of Melanesia whose body was found with deep wounds lying at the seaside close to Tolegu village at Havulei district in Isabel Province. The National Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) are working closely with Buala police…
CHURCH leaders have successfully completed a weeklong Training of Trainers workshop from 12th-15th June, 2023 in Honiara. The workshop was attended by the leaders and representatives from the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM), United Church Solomon Islands (UCSI), Seventh Day Adventist (SDA), South Seas Evangelical Church (SSEC), Catholic Church (CC), Solomon Islands Christian Association (SICA)…
Dear Editor, More than two decades ago when I took over command of the then Solomon Islands Police Force (SIPF) public trust in the local police force was low, exacerbated by a critical shortage of budgetary support from the government of the day, a strict moratorium on recruitment, personnel having to wear shabby, old uniforms,…
Solomon Islands as a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 23rd of September 2008, officially deposited the Instrument of Ratification to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 22nd of June 2023. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted at the sixty…
MULTIPURPOSE hall was fully packed to the brim with people who came out to witness the first ever boxing Pacific Challenge 2023 in Honiara on Wednesday night. Despite tickets being sold for $100 per person, people came in numbers to witness Fijian boxers take on Solomon Islands boxers as part of their preparations for the…
THE AUKI Catholic diocese members and the respective Catholic parishioners in Malaita province will soon miss the presence of their beloved bishop, Peter Houhou from the diocese. This comes after the announcement of Bishop Houhou’s new appointment as the new bishop for Gizo Catholic diocese in Western Province. He served as Catholic bishop for six…