For mandatory pre-departure test THOSE wishing to travel overseas will now have to dig a little deeper into their pockets to pay for the pre-departure test fee. The new amount which will come into effect today is $1500 per test from the previous amount of $500. This was announced by Attorney General John Muria…
DEFENDING champions Solomon Warriors FC maintains the second spot of the Telekom S-league (TSL) with 31 points. Gagame Feni and Alwin Hou scored a brace each while Dennis Ifunaoa and Jerry Donga scored a goal each to give Warriors another three points. Isabel United managed to get three goals against the defending champions with two…
FORMER national U17 football player Chris Satu has died at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) on Sunday following a short illness. The right flanker was part of the team that created history for the Solomon Islands by qualifying for the FIFA U17 World Cup. Former teammates paid their respects to the young player who made…
THE Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) has paid tribute to one of the young aspiring footballers, former national U17 player Christ Satu who passed away in Honiara over the weekend following a short illness. In a statement, SIFF said: “On behalf of the president of the Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF), Provincial member associations, the…
Dear Editor – The Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Guadalcanal, Bodo Dettke has received widespread praise from the public for producing flour from green bananas. Last weekend Mr. Dettke launched and introduced one of his constituency’s new innovative products – the Banana flour products. “I will find a commercial way for banana farmers…
Dear Editor – Please help. I’m trying to top-up cash water and power using mobile banking 277 and it is useless. It seems it occurs especially on the weekends. Can Solomon Water and Solomon Power advise if they can make these services available at shops similar to the ones you can get top-ups from Solomon…
Dear Editor – In a couple of recent letters of mine I made mention the fact that despite high-level parties in the Solomon Islands looking into how best to solve corruption there was no clear answer found to tackle the scourge of corruption, recently said to be Solomon Island’s Elephant. Three or four possible reasons…
Dear Editor – The Prime Minister last week said Honiara will become a modern city ahead of the Pacific Games in 2023 with the generous help of the Government of Japan with the construction of new road infrastructure to ease traffic flow. It is good to hear of such plans but one has also read…
Dear Editor – As even time swiftly developments on Bangkok where I have found home for many years since leaving the Solomon Islands as long ago as 1999, I reflected on the many countries I was privileged to have served in as a policeman since 1959 and decided to turn to U Tube on my…
To be named ‘Patrol Boat 06 Taro’ coming May THE Australian Government will provide Solomon Islands with its sixth brand-new Guardian-class Patrol Boat named RSIPV Taro in May. The support comes just over a year after it supplied Patrol Boat Gizo in November 2019. This changeover will happen when RSIPV Auki completes its cycle…