TRANSPORT owners in east Malaita have praised the works of the Labour Based Project (LBP) along east road, Malaita province. Lanour based projects (LBP) were rendered into communities by the Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID) to clean up along the roads. Truck drivers told this paper that they were very happy with the way community…
DISGRUNTLED students of the Solomon Islands National University(SINU) who have completed their studies at the university last year have called for immediate release of their academic transcript. The students made the call after they claimed the SINU management failed to respond to their request for the release of their academic transcript since last year. A…
Tetere Police uproots, destroy marijuana plants Intelligence information gathered prompted Guadalcanal Provincial Police to a conduct an operation near Komukea village in the North East Guadalcanal region on Friday. The operation was coordinated by Tetere police with additional men-power support from Henderson Police Station. Police were informed by members of the community about they suspected…
THE Solomon Airlines board is asked to justify the high salary cap of chief executive officer (CEO), Captain Ron Sumsum. This came after a leaked information stated Sumsum is paid $4.8 million; almost 5 million dollars annually, to make him the highest paid officer in any State Owned Enterprises (SOE) in the country. A prominent…
THE Ministry of Health (MOH) workers will be under-going a training on a new curriculum that will focus on emergency response to victims in crisis. This will be staged next month in Honiara. The training will be funded by United Nation Funds for Population Activities (UNFPA). Gender Based Violence coordinator Nashley Vozoto said,the training will…
A new draft Education Bill aimed at replacing the existing Education Act of 1978 will be circulated soon for further nationwide consultation. Minister for Education and Human Resources Development Dr. Derek Sikua announced this new bill last week at a two-day Tertiary Education Think Tank meeting in Honiara. This new Bill envisions a more desirable,…
A framework to integrate provincial, community driven and constituency based planning processes is vital for infrastructure development throughout the country. The recently completed World Bank report on the findings of how the different forms of funding programs have performed over the years is quite intriguing. The Provincial Constituency Development Fund (PCDF), Rural Development Program(RDP),Rural Advancement…
FBC NEWS – Fiji’s Civil Aviation Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says it’s important to maintain control over Fiji Airways and not allow veto rights to shareholder Qantas. The Australian airline has forty six percent shares in Fiji Airways but lost control over operational matters following the National Airlines Decree in 2012. The relationship between the government…
The National – MOST investors eyeing Papua New Guinea’s newest industry – petrochemical – are from Japan, Petroleum and Energy Minister Nixon Duban says. Japanese Ambassador to PNG Morio Matsumoto had told The National that apart from SojitzCorporation, more Japanese companies had indicated interest for the industry in PNG as well. “Apart from Sojitz, there…
Fiji Times – Tattooing has been practised in the Pacific region for ages and in the traditional societies of Samoa, Tonga and New Zealand, it is part of their identity. In Fiji though, tattooing has become more of a fashion statement, if anything. People of all ages, backgrounds and stations in life have tattoos, many…