Dear Editor, We wish to share a scary and terrifying incident we encountered during our recent travel from Honiara to Auki, and then on to our village at the Fouia head-road in northeast Malaita. When we arrived in Auki, we realised that all three trucks destined for Fouia head-road had departed and so we had to look around for any truck travelling north road. …
THE One More Shot (OMS) photography campaign for Joy which supposed to end last Friday has been extended till Wednesday 6th of September. The campaign kicked off on Monday last week in Honiara and in Auki, Malaita Province, on Thursday last week. The extension applies to both Honiara and Auki. The OMS team of freelance…
BUILDING new public toilets for the 17th Pacific Games in Honiara will be impossible given the hurdles of land and finance but existing facilities can be upgraded for use. That’s according to Honiara City Council Clerk Justus Deni during the Iumi Sol2023 talkback show on the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) on Sunday. He was…
MALAITA Province is seeing a big number of Malaitans living in Honiara back in the province since last week for the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) which started yesterday. Reports have it that some of registrants who have a busy schedule and want to get their registration done as soon as possible were the first to…
THE three men who were accused of masterminding the November 2021 riot in Honiara will face trial next month. The trial will start on 9 October. Simon Mannie, John Kwaita and Knoxley Atu are facing trial for two counts of managing unlawful society, one count of sedition, two counts of unlawful assembly and seven counts…
A MAN has been sentenced to two years in prison for attacking three people with a Chainsaw chain in May 2022 in Tulagi, Central Province. Marvin Parina, 35, has been found guilty after a trial of one count of Unlawful Wounding and two counts of Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm. When sentencing Parina, Principal Magistrate…
IN a disappointing turn of events for the Solomon Islands U23 football team, star player Raphael Lea’i will be unable to join his teammates in the crucial semifinal clash against Fiji in the OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifiers. This setback is due to unforeseen visa difficulties that have left the talented young footballer unable to make…
SOLOMON Islands national U23 men’s football team, Solympics will meet Fiji in the semi finals of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Olympic Qualifiers. The match is set for 6pm tomorrow, September 6th at the Go Media Stadium, Mt Smart. Solympics confirmed the top spot of group B and earned their semi final spot following their…
LEADER of Opposition Hon. Matthew Wale has called on the Police Commissioner to come clean following an Al Jazeera report that the ‘replica’ firearms supplied by China to the RSIPF were actually real firearms. Hon. Wale said this new information has undermined the Commissioner’s earlier claims that the firearms that were brought into the country…
Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare MP and Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Maelanga MP were both conferred honorary awards in the Grand Masters Authentic Method of Kung Fu Martial Art in a ceremony over the weekend. Prime Minister Sogavare was awarded an honorary Sifu belt (red belt) by Sifu (instructor appointed by the grand master…