The Western provincial government yesterday issued a warning to Lauru shipping company (LSC) to settle its outstanding business fee or services to some ports in the province will be suspended. Western provincial finance minister Lester Saomasi Huckel issued the notice after Lauru shipping failed to sort out its long overdue business shipping licence fee. Lauru…
A renowned Australian group who travelled around to surf and fish will be arriving this afternoon in Honiara. Known as the Mad Hueys, the group is expected to spend a week surfing and fishing on the Papatura Island resort on Isabel province. Solomon Island visitors bureau marketing manager Freda Unusi yesterday said the group is…
AT Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (SIEA), Linemen play an important role in our operations; they ensure that the distribution network, safely and reliably provides the required supply of electricity to the customer. A lineman is a tradesman who constructs and maintains electric power transmission and distribution lines and equipment. You have to be a…
A BRISBANE based video production company; Torn Parachute is taking Solomon Islands music to greater heights, producing music videos for some of the country’s top local artists-taking their music globally. Speaking to this paper in an interview on Thursday, producer and director Karl Bouro said that Solomon Islands is a country that flourishes with a…
TORN Parachute video production company is eyeing to take Solomon Islands tourism to another level, exposing the beauty and friendliness of the once happy isle of the Pacific back to its original state. This could be made possible following the signing of a business partnership between the Brisbane based video production company and The Solomon…
Fiji’s participation in team events at Glasgow 2014 is “under consideration” following their reinstatement into the Commonwealth, insidethegames can reveal. Reg Sanday, President of the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC), has appealed to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) for the country’s rugby sevens and netball teams to be allowed to compete…
Fiji’s Sports Minister Viliame Naupoto has assured government’s support in Fiji Rugby Union’s bid to host one of the 2015/2016 HSBC Sevens World Series tournaments as well as host of the 2018 Sevens World Cup. He said the ministry had also written to the International Rugby Board to assure the international rugby body that Fiji…
Fifty two participants including 10 Digicel Cup referees, six ENBRL referees, 10 Digicel Cup coaches and trainers and 16 national development officers will undergo a two day accreditation course in rugby league in Kokopo on Saturday. The course run under the Team Kumul program will be conducted by three Australian accredited trainers with assistance from…
Samoan and New Zealand based rugby player, Kelly Meafua has been called to join the Samoa Sevens team to the IRB World Sevens Series Round 6 and 7 in Japan and Hong Kong. The last minute change is to replace Captain Reupena Levasa who is suspected of illness. “At this stage we are awaiting Levasa’s…
The 2014 OFC Women’s Championship saw the wide open margins by which New Zealand has long dominated their Pacific counterparts narrowed. The gap still exists, but with the work being put into the women’s game from Member Association’s like Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu this tournament was evidence that the hard work is starting…