THE Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey is calling for applications for land allocation at April Ridge in Honiara. April Ridge is the name given to an area near Gilbert Camp Aekafo and Lau Valley in east Honiara, and the area is currently unallocated and owned by the Commissioner of Lands. Permanent Secretary Stanley Waleanisia…
AXIOM says it will recommence exploration at its Isabel Nickel Project this week after the Court of Appeal set aside the interim injunction instigated by Sumitomo on 30 September. Shares in the company in the Australian stock market are trading higher on the news. Key points of the decision included: – The interim injunction ordered…
THE Ministry of Finance and Treasury held a briefing session for the media on the Public Financial Management Reform Roadmap, where the purpose of the Mid-Year Budget Review was discussed in depth at an inaugural Media Workshop on the road map on Friday. The Mid-Year Budget Review was released by the Minister for Finance and…
THE nephew of outgoing MP for Fataleka Steve Abana has urged voters in the constituency to vote wisely in the November 19 elections. Billy Abana, who was the first born of Steve Abana’s brother Billy Buga, made the comments, claiming not much development has happened in the constituency in the last eight years. Billy said…
The European Union’s newly-introduced Ambassador to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu has added another first to his portfolio as he settles into his role, seeing from the inside how regional surveillance over fisheries is being led by the Pacific’s Honiara-based Fisheries Surveillance Centre. As he made his first visit to the regional headquarters of the…
“BUILDING a strong Public Financial Management (PFM) system is everyone’s business,” a top government officer says. Supervising Permanent Secretary for Finance, Elizabeth Kausimae pointed this out at an inaugural media workshop on the new PFM Road Map in Honiara yesterday. She stressed that a robust financial management system will help achieve our collective vision of…
YOUTH at Work has designed a course to help mould the talent of young people and boost their self-esteem. According to the facilitator, June Magasu, youth who don’t make it far in education, but who are assertive always get by and can prosper. This assertiveness is one of the key goals of the training for…
TO get into Youth@Work, you have to perform a minimum of one month’s community service. Youth@Work interns for the 6th phase of the Youth@Work internship programme are now weeks into their community service stage. The community service sees youth in the program taking up initiative and doing work in and around their communities and in…
Fr. Clement Wanesubua celebrated his first Eucharistic mass as a newly ordained priest on the feast day of the Holy Name of Mary in September 2004. It was ten years ago on the 11th September 2004 that deacon Clement was ordained priest in the Catholic Diocese of Auki by the late Bishop Gerald Loft at…
SUVA, (FBC NEWS) – An 18 storey tower for MHCC in downtown Suva will add to the capital’s skyline, it has been confirmed. The Carpenters Fiji Group which owns the building, has been given the green light for the project to proceed. Malaysia based company owner, Sir Mogan Lourdenadin was recently in Fiji, and has…