THE NATIONAL – Bank South Pacific (BSP) says it is waiting for few more regulatory approvals before it can fully acquire the banking operations of Westpac in Samoa, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tonga for A$125 million (US$99 million). Chief executive officer Robin Fleming said the bank was targeting end of May to complete…
THE GOVERNMENT through the Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID) is committed to ensure most of the feeder and connecting roads plus the drainage system within the Honiara city and the outskirts of the city are improved. A spokesperson from the Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID) on Wednesday told the paper this road improvement project is…
POST COURIER – The Papua New Guinea Government will push for Indonesia to become an associate member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to encourage greater participation of its 11 million West Papuans in cultural, trade and investment opportunities with their Melanesian wantoks. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said this Tuesday during the signing of an…
THE Solomon Islands National University (SINU) has launched its first ever students’ handbook on Wednesday. The launching took place at the SINU Kukum campus’s lecture theater. The hand-book was supposed to be launched in early January. However due to late printing they’ve done it yesterday. Speaking during the ceremony Campus Life Manager Selison Faisi Jnr…
The National Community Policing Unit of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) has launched a nationwide Family Violence program with delivery of family violence training to the RSIPF officers and other stakeholders. A statement from the Police Media Unit said, the Family Violence program started towards the end of April 2015 and the Family…
The Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) has posed an economic and social impact to the lives of people in the Solomon Islands. A representative from the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) highlighted this during the launching of the WW2 photographic exhibition at the National Art Gallery on Wednesday. Sakiusa Rabuka said, this has caused the slow progress…
A photographic exhibition of World War Two (WW2) bombs in Solomon Islands has been launched on Wednesday. The exhibition which will look at the current situation of unexploded ordinances of WW2 in the country will run from 13th to the 27th of May at the National Art Gallery. For the past 70 years, Solomon Islanders…
A CROCODILE measuring about 2.6 meter has been trapped and killed at Bina in the Langlanga lagoon, Malaita Province yesterday. This was made possible through the assistance of the local Police officers and Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI). Acting Provincial Police Commander in Auki Inspector David Wate said,the operation followed concerns from local…
An array of colour, smiles and laughter from the school kids that descended on to Lawson Tama made the beautiful Saturday morning brighter than usual. Close to more than four hundred school children from Lunga in the East to Marara in the West flocked to Lawson Tama Stadium for the official launch of the 2015…
AUSTRALIA and New Zealand should open their labour markets for graduates of the Australia-Pacific Technic College (APTC). Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare uttered this during an APTC graduation ceremony on Tuesday in Honiara that saw 185 Solomon Islanders graduating in various technical courses. Mr Sogavare said one of the goals of APTC is “employment”, which is…