COUNTING of votes for Central Honiara and North East Guadalcanal constituencies will take place at the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Headquarters at Rove. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare revealed this during his weekly nation-wide address, Monday. Mr. Sogavare said this was endorsed in accordance with Section 98 of the Electoral Act 2018 during the Solomon…
A MAN who was convicted after a trial over a fatal stabbing of another man in North Malaita in 2015 had been sentenced to life in prison. Stanley Suikona Agwa was sentenced following his conviction on one count of murder during a High Court circuit in Auki, Malaita last Friday. Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer…
THE Cabinet has approved a recommendation by the Oversight Committee to allow two repatriation flights by Solomon Airlines in November. That’s according to Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his weekly nationwide address on Monday. He said the first flight will be on 19 November to Kiribati and Nadi to pick up our stranded citizens from…
The country’s population hits 721,455 By IAN M.KAUKUINewsroom, Honiara THE country’s population now stands at 721,455 with an annual growth rate of approximately 2.7 percent. The provisional figure was obtained from the 2019 National Population and Housing Census which ended on the midnight “census night” of 24th November 2019. Ten years ago the country’s…