THE newly elected Premier of Santa Isabel Province and the country’s first female Premier, honorable Rhoda Sikilabu, and her executive have visited Prime Minister Honorable Manasseh Sogavare in office, Wednesday. During the brief courtesy call, honorable Sikilabu reaffirmed her executive government’s support to the national government. She pledged to implement government’s policies relating to the…
A CONCERNED Guadalcanal man has called on Premier Francis Sade to settle overdue land issues on Guadalcanal rather than backing up the Prime Minister to host the Pacific Games 2023. Speaking in anonymity, the man said Guadalcanal has a lot of issues Hon Sade needs to address. “As a Guadalcanal, I am so concerned about…
THE Malaita Provincial Government has recently passed a budget of $28,820,122 during the Full Assembly Budget meeting which ended successfully, last Friday. Speaking to Solomon Star Auki in an interview yesterday, Premier Daniel Suidani confirmed the successful passing of the 2022 budget. Premier Suidani said the Ministry of Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening (MPGIS) has…
SOLOMON Islands has now recorded a total of 11,856 cases of COVID-19. Minister of Health and Medical Services Dr Culwick Togamana confirmed this in his national address on the COVID-19 situation in the country yesterday (5th April 2022). Dr Togamana said this was the country’s total after recording 236 new COVID-19 cases in the 72…
Front liners who deal with Covid-19 swab tests for incoming passengers and outgoing passengers both in the international and domestic levels are working without any Covid-19 allowances since September of 2021, it was claimed. Speaking to Solomon Star Auki in an exclusive interview on Tuesday front liners who requested their identity to remain anonymous said…
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Gizo and Noro Police Station in the Western Province have charged 13 defendants out of the 17 who crossed the Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Solomon Islands (SI) border to Buin last month. They were charged with one count of restriction of movement of small craft vessels contrary…
Solomon Islands to likely to go for early polls THE DCGA government is believed to have abandoned its plan to extend Parliament by another year, sources have revealed. Instead, it has backed the idea of an early dissolution of Parliament – an option proposed by the Opposition, the sources said. It is understood that public…
In his national address of late, PM Sogavare made an assurance that Solomon Islands will never be used as a military base or other military institutions of any foreign country now or in the future. PM Sogavare pointed out that any naval or military bases of foreign countries will destroy, and not develop Solomon Islands.…
Frontline workers on COVID-19 response at Atoifi and Kilu’ufi hospitals in Malaita province are attending a two-week training opportunity delivered by the UK Emergency Medical Team who travelled to the province on 24 March. The team was deployed to work alongside the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services and the World Health Organization…
Police Minister Anthony Veke says he stands by his social media comments in relation to a post carrying a letter by the President of the Federated State of Micronesia (FSM) to Solomon Islands Prime Minister asking the Solomon Islands Government to withdraw its security deal with China. Veke said his comments were personal and does…