PAPANGU Community in east Guadalcanal plains has commended the Kastom Gaden Association KGA) for providing them basic agriculture training. KGA conducted a series of trainings in the past weeks for communities in Berande, Balasuna, and Ngalimbiu, who were affected by the April flash floods that hit Guadalcanal and Honiara. Chief Leon Thugea described the trainings…
GUADALCANAL plains farmers have been warned against using chemicals in their food gardens. Kastom Gaden Association (KGA), an organised established to promote organic farming, issued the warning when conducting basic farm training for flood victims of Papangu village, Ngalimbiu, on the Guadalcanal plains this week. KGA manager Clement Adosaia said like any chemicals, fertilizer, which…
KASTOM Gaden Association (KGA) conducted a three-day integrated agricultural farming training for flood victims of Papangu community on the Guadalcanal plains this week. Hundreds of families in the area lost their food gardens when flash flood hit the plains on April 3 this year. The training, which concluded yesterday, was part of the rehabilitation process…
ANZ on Wednesday announced a sponsorship of SBD$33,000 towards the Solomon Islands Tennis Association (SITA). ANZ’s financial contribution to SITA will support the ANZ inter-primary school championship to be held in September in Honiara. ANZ CEO Solomon Islands Geoffrey Buchanan said the bank is happy to show its support for the sport as part of…
The Solbrew national invitational rugby 7s championship is set to kick off on during the Independence celebration. A statement from the organisers said the games will be played throughout the long weekend on Saturday 5th July and Monday 7th July. The championship is an open invitational to provincial unions namely; Bellona, Malaita, Western, Makira, West…
The National Olympic Committee of Solomon Islands (NOCSI) will elect its president this Sunday. The decision to elect the president was agreed upon by the NOCSI executive following their recent meet. This is actually a re-election since the previously elected president the late Andrew Nori died not long after his new appointment. Since Nori’s loss…
THE Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Sports Committee has resolved that they would finalise what they have discussed in the meeting in Port Moresby last weekend in their next meeting in May, next year. Vanautu-based MSG Programme Manager Barbra Age said all the issues on the agenda were discussed and will be finalised in their next…
The Solomon Islands basketball federation (SIBF) has announced the kick off date for the Honiara basketball league (HBL) for this year. The confirmed date is July 13. The HBL competition for this year will be slightly different in terms of which categories to participate. The competition includes the senior men’s and women’s category, high school…
Dear Editor – As one of the investors that has spent millions of dollars and nearly every waking hour for six years working on Tavanipupu, I need to correct a few things that were in the article printed on Wednesday, June 25th on the above. First, the NPF board is probably one of the finest…
Dear Editor – We write on the above subject to express our deepest disappointment on Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo led government to hijack the TRHDP from us by dealing with people outside Bahomea to pursue their self serving interest to use section 75 part two of the “land and little act” to compulsory acquired…