BETHEL Community in East Fataleka in Malaita Province has refuted a police statement regarding the raid at their community on the early hours last Thursday, to arrest suspect Knoxly Atu. Community members spoken to said what was released by the Police Commissioner in the media is far from the truth regarding the raid. Villagers claimed…
THE World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a US$15 million project to increase agricultural production and improve market access for rural communities in Solomon Islands, initially focusing on Guadalcanal, Makira and Malaita provinces. The Solomon Islands Agriculture and Rural Transformation Project will support 85,000 Solomon Islanders with training, farming and livestock support services,…
SOLOMON Islands Electoral Office (SIEO) has fostered partnership with the Office of DPP with an objective to assist SIEO staff understand the prosecution aspect of the Electoral Act. Deputy Director Public Prosecution Mr Andrew Kelesi held a half day training session with SIEO staff on the Electoral Act especially on Offense and Penalties, and compliance.…
OFC: The Oceania Football Confederation can confirm that due to a number of positive cases of COVID-19 in the Vanuatu and Cook Islands squads, Match Day 3 of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Oceania Qualifiers will not go ahead. As a result of the vast majority of the squad testing positive to COVID-19, Vanuatu…
RNZI: Covid-19 numbers are climbing quickly in Samoa. Health officials have now indentified 45 cases of community transmission of coronavirus. The National Emergency Operations Committee said 34 new positive cases were confirmed last night after the announcement by Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa of 11 cases and the upgrading of the alert level to level…
OFC: A Sairusi Nalaubu double saw Fiji edge New Caledonia 2-1 in a thrilling encounter on Match Day 2 of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Oceania Qualifiers. While much of the pre-match attention on Fiji focused on the inclusion of captain Roy Krishna in the starting side, just over 24 hours after he arrived in…
DEAR EDITOR – I fully oppose the idea of extending Parliament term from current term to additional years. Term is not the problem, explore what is the real problem is, others before you have done it well too with the same given term or time and others also fail like now but went out gracefully…
DEAR EDITOR – Looks like we are wasting our time to complain, it looks like the government looks will extend the life of parliament. This is the same government that turned all the stones and make decisions, so what do we expect? So when election comes, enough of accepting bribes, because these are the people…
DEAR EDITOR – Transparency Solomon Islands congratulates the newly appointed Chairman of the Political Parties Commission Mr. Francis Billy Hilly, newly appointed Commissioner Lady Joy Kere and continuing Commissioners Mrs. Taeasi Sanga and Dr. Jack Maebuta. It is encouraging to see this Commission continuing to be gender-balance. Transparency Solomon Islands urges the Executive Government to…
Dear Editor – Breast cancer in women is known to be a serious medical concern in the Solomon Islands and the reason I have written so often about the report that the Cancer Unit at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) is without a workable mammogram machine to carry out routine screening of women for early…