PM meets new Japanese envoy

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Prime Minister Hon. Rick Houenipwela early this week met with the newly appointed Ambassador of Japan to Solomon Islands, His Excellency Shigeru Toyama. This was during a courtesy call to the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In his statement to the Prime Minister, His Excellency Shigeru took the opportunity to express his ‘deepest…

DSE: we are not part of West Papua trip

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DEVELOPMENT Service Exchange (DSE) has rejected claims that it is “officially represented” in a government delegation that visited West Papua last week. The delegation, led by the Chief of Staff in the Office of the Prime Minister, John Usuramo, included chairman of DSE Inia Barry and other civil society activists. But DSE, the peak body…