RESIDENTS of several urban centres nation-wide will soon enjoy a much faster internet service via the Fiber Distribution Terminals (FTDS). Our Telekom last week announced the good news. “Exciting news! Our Telekom bringing fiber internet service closer to you via its FDT technology!” This means, starting in April, residents in Gizo, Noro, Munda, Kira Kira,…
Solomon Warriors Vs KOSSA SOLOMON Warriors FC and KOSSA FC are all set for the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Champions League Playoffs. Both teams qualified for the playoffs after finishing in the top two spots of the recently completed 2022/2023 Telekom S-league (TSL) season. The first leg of the playoffs is set for tomorrow Wednesday…
A colorful presentation was successfully held on Saturday night at the Coral Sea resort & casino to mark the end of the 2022-2023 Solrais Women’s Premier League. All the winning teams and outstanding players received their awards for their achievements. Champions Koloale walked away with $30,000 and 25 gold medals while runners up RSIPF Royals…
Administrative issue to be sorted soon SOLOMON Islands young football star, Raphael Lea’i, is yet to make his debut for his new team, FK Velež Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A report from Oceania Football revealed that the delay is due to some administrative issues regarding Raphael’s registration. A FK Velez Mostar team staff member,…
The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) boosted its capabilities with a new forensic autopsy laboratory with the assistance from People’s Republic of China (PRC) on 16 February 2023 at National Referral Hospital (NRH). The forensic autopsy laboratory program is worth two million Solomon dollars including the equipment worth 1.4 million SBD and the infrastructure…
The Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the Solomon Islands vows to continue to work collaboratively with the government to faithfully serve this nation. His Excellency, Archbishop (Apostolic Nuncio) Fremin Emilio Sosa Rodriguez passed on the assurance to the honourable Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare, MP, recently. “We mutually work with the Government for…
TRAINING of laboratory technicians from Choiseul and Temotu provinces has started last week in preparation for new laboratories which are proposed for their provincial hospitals. The laboratory staff from Lata and Taro hospitals few to Munda, Western Province to join their colleagues at Helena Goldie Hospital for the training which is provided under Australia’s laboratory…
HELENA Goldie Hospital in Western Province has officially launched and opened its new SBD$1million prefabricated biomedical laboratory last week. The laboratory is funded and delivered by Australia and is fully equipped with associated reagents, furniture and fittings including a GeneXpert machine to perform COVID-19 tests, haematology, a biochemistry analyser, an autoclave machine, microscopes, centrifuge, blood…
It’s almost three weeks after a flooded water cut off part of a road at Anonakinaki area in West Kwaio Malaita province and yet the government is still to take immediate action to fix the road condition. The situation has become a center of frustration to the public particularly the transport operators and people in…
SIX out of 14 businesses engaged by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) to provide goods and services were not registered. This was uncovered in the latest Audit Report carried out in the three key government ministries, MHS, Ministry of Infrastructure and Development and National Disaster Management Officer under the Ministry of Environment,…