CHILDREN in Honiara and Guadalcanal will again have access to essential health services following a timely donation from Taiwan Kaochiung Medical University. The university has donated USD$10,000 (SBD$72,500) to repair the Pikinini clinic, which received extensive damages during the April flash flood. In a brief handing over of the money, Taiwanese ambassador Roy Wu said…
A GIRL, 7, from Manita village in west Bauro, Makira/UlawaProvince, has been the latest victim of crocodile attacks, over the weekend. The girl was playing with her friend at a river mouth where her mother was fishing, when the croc pulled her down into the river. Senior sergeant Peter Sitai of Kirakira police confirmed the…
It appears that the Hon Sogavare has become more forgiving and forgetting, based on Radio New Zealand International reports about the appointment of another Australian as Commissioner of the Royal Solomon Islands Police after the debacle of the expulsion of the last Australian Police Commissioner, Shane Castle. This might be considered to be pragmatic, given…
About 40 members of the Solomon Islands Women in Business Association (SIWIBA) has successfully completed a one-week workshop on Piggery and Poultry training at the Dioceses of Guadalcanal Conference Room at All Saints Compound last week. The training was facilitated by Hearly Aleve of the Ministry of Agriculture. The training aimed to empower women to…
As the 2014 Solo Icon program slowly itched up to its climax, the show is getting tougher and interesting. The Solo-Icon singing contest now enters the semi-final stage. There is evidence contestants are grooming up nervously but with authority as they all look for a place in the grand finale, which will be held on…
FLORENCE Young Christian School will host a parent’s open day this Friday. The school principal George Saemane said the day is important for parents to visit their children’s classrooms and see some of the work their children have produced over the term. “There will be no classes on Friday as the day has been set…
CHURCH of Melanesia’s new mothers union diocese leaders will be elected next week during their conference to be held at Saint Barnabas cathedral in Honiara. The new leaders will be elected to serve in the diocese for three years. Edith Koete provincial president of church of Melanesia mothers union said positions to be filled include…
LONGLINE fishing vessels will be the next issue Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) will be targeting to engage in the vessel day scheme (VDS) to generate more revenue for member nations as well as control tuna harvesting in the region. Director of the organisation Dr Transform Aqorau highlighted this yesterday during his presentation at…
A High Court officer yesterday appeared in the Honiara Magistrate Court to face an embezzlement charge in relation to a missing $20,000 at High Court registry office. Patterson Pou, the High Court office manager was accused of converting for his own use $20,000 collected and received by the High Court for Security of Cost for…
A committal hearing will be conducted next month on a court case involving a man who allegedly defiled an eight year-old girl at Russell, Central Province early this year. The accused’s lawyer Chris Rarumae from the Public Solicitor’s Office opted for a short form preliminary inquiry that only required the tendering of documents relevant to…