Improving quality service is important: Dr Dalipanda
THE PERMANENT Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services says improving the quality of services must be prioritised in order to achieve the 2016-2020 National Health Strategic Plans....
View ArticleRTC teachers visit local Eco-tourism site
MORE THAN forty rural Training Centre (RTC) teachers undergoing the Hospitality and Tourism training this week embarked on a look-and-learn field trip yesterday. They went to the mountains of Belaha,...
View ArticleDCCG solidarity threatened …SIPA Board sacking has potential bring down Go’vt
THE SACKINGS of Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) Board chairman, Billy Titiulu and a Board member, businessman Johnny Sy, have the potential of bringing down the DCC Government, it was warned...
View ArticleGWAUNARU’U AIRPORT SET TO REOPEN FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL NEGOTATIONS
The Gwaunaru’u Airport near the Malaita Provincial capital Auki will reopen in the next two weeks following successful negotiations between the national government and representatives of the tribal...
View Article10 new Australian Volunteers set to commence assignments
THE AUSTRALIAN High Commission has welcomed ten new Australian Volunteers to Solomon Islands, who will use their skills and expertise to develop host organisations across the country. The volunteers,...
View ArticleAPTC celebrates students’ success
OVER 50 STUDENTS of the Australia-Pacific Technical College (APTC) were awarded with qualifications in 15 programmes in Nadi on 22 April, 2016. APTC is an innovative development project funded by the...
View ArticleOriginal landowners furious over payment of Lomlom Airport
DEAR EDITOR, Responding to the above topic published in your paper (p6) of yesterday’s issue. On the outset, let me put the record right in that the payment which the report referred to does not in any...
View ArticleMP Marau assists community with long standing water problem
THE PEOPLE of Suu Moli village in the Ulawa/ Ugi constituency will soon have good clean water after more than ten years. This was made possible by the Member of Parliament for Ulawa/ Ugi constituency,...
View ArticleFr Kanaga, representative of the Rector Major visits DBTI
On Tuesday, 19 March, the IT students of DBTI (duty Class of the week) welcomed Fr Kanaga at Henderson airport. He is on an official visit to the Don Bosco Institutions in Solomon Islands and Papua New...
View ArticleSIPA CEO FIRED… Colin Yow given marching order for ‘non-compliance and...
IT’S OVER for Colin Yow – SIPA’s controversial Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The Board of Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) decided last Friday to fire the man on the grounds of “non-compliance...
View ArticleHigh Powered SIPA Committee is foreign influenced: MMF
THE RECENT High Powered five men SIPA committee set up to investigate the Solomon Islands Ports Authority CEO, Collin Yow is foreign influenced says the Malaita Ma’asina Forum. MMF President, Charles...
View ArticleTeachers question delay of housing allowance
TEACHERS FROM Central Islands Province are questioning the delay of payment for their housing allowance since last year. A teacher who claimed to be the spokesman for those concerned said that teachers...
View ArticleFishing Guide training conducted successfully on Isabel
THE MINISTRY Of Culture and Tourism in collaboration with the Solomon Islands Fishing Safaris (SSFS) has successfully conducted a fishing guide training on Isabel province. A total of 12 local guides...
View ArticleDeep division on Vanikoro Island from Logging Activities
DISPUTE OVER ownership on Vanikoro Island in Temotu province remains high between Tikopian settlers and the indigenous people of the Island. An elder from Vanikoro reports to this paper last week that...
View ArticleSavo MPA urged to compensate damaged properties
Ward Member for South Savo, Central Islands Province, Hon Jim Planet, is being called on to compensate owners of properties his committee had reportedly damaged. His committee were reported to have...
View ArticleAndrew Nihopara is new PS for Tourism
ANDREW NIHOPARA has been appointed the new Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Mr Nihopara was a senior tourism consultant until his latest appointment. He immediately took...
View ArticleCHEC assures Naro-Lambi road project will kick off soon
CHIAN HABOUR Engineering Company (CHEC) has given assurance that work into the Naro-Lambi road project will start very soon amidst delays faced by the company. CHEC, who had come under the media...
View ArticleSINU and UNDP seal agreement to develop environment studies module
THE VICE-Chancellor of Solomon Islands National University (SINU) and Country Representative of United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) to Solomon Islands have sealed an agreement to develop an...
View ArticleMedia plays important role in RAMSI drawdown
MEDIA PLAYS a very important role in disseminating information regarding the drawdown of RAMSI in the country. Newly appointed Special Secretary to RAMSI, Mr John Wasi, reiterated that the role local...
View ArticleSI expresses commitment to implement UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
SOLOMON ISLANDS has joined 192 UN member countries in expressing commitment to domesticate and implement the 2030 agenda adopted at the 70th United Nations General Assembly meeting in September 2015....
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