THE Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has formally handed over $2.5million (US300k) in a donation to support the country prepare for the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19). Foreign Affairs and External Trade Minister Jeremiah Manele yesterday received the funding support of US$300,000 (SBD2.5m) from Counsellor Yao Ming of the Peoples Republic of China Embassy in Honiara. The…
THE on-going repatriation exercise undertaken by the national government in its efforts to prevent, mitigate and possibly contain the spread of COVID-19 to the rural areas has put extra pressure on families to feed their relatives. Davidson Sepo of Kolofe village in North Malaita said that the heavy influx of relatives has resulted in food…
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is engaging with communities in the Solomon Islands side of the common border with Papua New Guinea to assist in the fight to prevent the COVID-19 virus from entering the Solomon Islands. “We are working with communities to bring back the Coastwatchers,” says RSIPF Assistant Commissioner (AC) Provincial…
Solomon Breweries has taken positive steps to boost their staff’s COVID-19 preparedness when they officially handed out their own produced hand sanitisers to all their employees. Solomon Breweries (SolBrew) stated that giving hand sanitisers to their staff was a small way to help them outside of the workplace as for some maintaining COVID-19 hygiene…