The SI Government has confirmed that the Solomon Islands National Broadband Infrastructure Project or SINBIP for the construction of up to 161 towers has been progressed with the recent signing of a contracting agreement with the vendor and contractor, Huawei/China Harbour Engineering Company Limited. A joint statement from the Ministry of Finance and Treasury and…
SOLOMON Islands young football striker, Raphael Leai is in Australia waiting for his visa approval before returning to Turkey for the trials with Turkey’s Alanyaspor Football club. Rafa as commonly known by football fans and supporters returned home last week just for a few days and returned to Australia and wait whilst his visa is…
THE Telekom S-league (TSL) competition enters match day 11 today featuring two matches. Matches will start at 2pm for this weekend’s matches featuring Honiara City FC and FC Isabel United. These two teams both have four points and will be aiming for a win to move up the ladder. Isabel United won their first game…
The SIFF Super Futsal league returns this weekend at the multipurpose outdoor court. More interesting matches are on scheduled for this weekend as the competition enters its fourth week. Today’s matches will see Marist FC take on the Saints at 3pm for the first match, Island Brothers and Dawn FC at 4:30pm, Salt FC and…
The dust is still swirling, far from settled, and already people are calling the 2022 elections the worst in Papua New Guinea’s history. Is that correct? I don’t know – the 2002 and 2017 elections provide stiff competition. And in some ways, 2022 hasn’t been as bad as I feared. The PNG Electoral Commission abandoned…
MALAITA Premier Daniel Suidani took time during the Malaita 39th Second Appointed Day anniversary to express his disagreement with continuing reference to provincial governments as mere agents of the national government. The Malaita Provincial Premier is of the view that those who refer to provincial governments as agents of the national government have taken the meaning…
THE Franjti Shipping Ltd’s new passenger vessel, MV Auki Express, successfully made its first passenger voyage to Auki, Malaita Province, yesterday. Auki Express broke the record as the fastest passenger vessel to ever serve the Honiara- Auki route with only two hours running time between Honiara and Auki. Passengers who travelled onboard MV Auki Express…
RHINOVIRUS and Influenza H3 are the main drivers of the current outbreak of flu-like illness in Honiara and Malaita Province, the Minister of Health and Medical Services Dr. Culwick Togamana announced in his special nation-wide address yesterday. He said during the week from 25 to 30 July, the National Public Health Surveillance Unit has recorded…
JUDGEMENT on the case of two juveniles accused of setting fire to the leaf hut next to the Parliament Building during last November’s unrest will be delivered this afternoon. Chief Magistrate Emma Garo will hand down the judgement at 2pm this afternoon. The judgement was previously listed last Monday but Ms Garo had it further…
Govt to table 2022 supplementary budget with Politicians as ‘biggest winners’ THE Government is spending an additional $284 million-plus to take us to the end of the year and, as in any budgetary appropriations, there are winners and losers. Politicians are amongst the biggest winners in the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2022. Finance Minister Harry…