THE country will soon take ownership of its firstever new world class synthetic training running track. For the first time the public was able to get a glimpse of the new running track after the 2023 Pacific Games Stadium Project was able to publish some of the first photos of the running tracks. Many have…
Q: Why should China and Solomon Islands sign security agreement? A: Solomon Islands has bitter memories of social unrest in the past decades since its independence. In November 2021, riot broke out again in Honiara and resulted in huge property losses and social panic. The government of Solomon Islands decided to diversify its international security…
GP gov’t to reclaim debts through law suits The total remaining SBD$9 million debts owed to several creditors by successive Guadalcanal Provincial Governments (GPG) over the years, will have to go through lawsuits, according to Premier Francis Sade. This was stated in his Sine Die speech in the Chamber last Tuesday. Premier Sade highlighted that…
The National Statistics Office (NSO) continues to progress the analyses of the results of the 2019 Population and Housing Census towards a planned release of the results later this year. Following a meeting convened on Wednesday 23rd March, the NSO officers within the various units in the department organized into pairs and groups, and were…
Kuper is winner of SITAS logo competition LOCAL designer, Kurt Kuper is SBD$1,000 richer after winning the Solomon Island Tertiary Association of Sports (SITAS) logo competition. Solomon Island National Institution of Sport (SINIS) in a statement Friday announced Mr Kuper as the winner. This was after a careful screening by the SINIS & SITAS…
AFTER failing to make it for the CONCACAF playoff, the Solomon Islands National Team is on their way back home. The team left Doha, Qatar yesterday to Brisbane, Australia where they will stay for six days before heading back home. The team is scheduled to return home on Friday April 15th and will go into…
More of SINU’s internal ‘dirty laundry’ keeps coming out GOVERNMENT-sponsored students who owed the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) more than $3 million in meals and accommodation costs in 2020 were issued credit notes, it was revealed this week. The latest revelation was made by the Business Investment & Commercial Services (BICS) Finance Officer, Jimmy…