MANY Malaitans who have been hoping to return to Honiara this week after spending Christmas and New Year in their home villages in Malaita are facing challenges due to high demand for shipping services for the Auki-Honiara route. Last weekend, many passengers who were expecting to travel back to Honiara found themselves stranded in front…
THE Miss Pacific Islands Pageant 2025 is set to be held in Honiara from February 1 to 8. The highlights of the event will be the Speech Day scheduled for Thursday 6, the Float Parade and Market Day on Friday 7 and the Crowning Night on Saturday 8. Seven country representatives have been confirmed…
American gospel reggae artist of all-time, Christafari will embark on a tour to Solomon Islands mid this year. Christafari announced this in a Facebook page post around lunch time today. The post said, they are looking to visit the country in late May or early June. “We’re looking to return to minister again in the…
THE 2024 Mustard Seed Enterprise (MSE) annual tournament successfully concluded in North Malaita. The tournament saw the participation of eight soccer teams from Wards 7 and 8 in North Malaita Constituency. The tournament includes both a football category and a netball category, but the 2024 tournament proceeded without a netball competition as no netball teams…
IN a joint effort to foster stronger connections with local residents and promote public safety during the festive season, a vibrant community outreach activity was conducted by the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) and China Police Liaison Team (CPLT) at Adaliua Community in East Honiara recently. The event brought together officers, local leaders, and…
IT WAS in May 1568 that Spanish Explorer Álvaro de Mendaña made the first sighting Malaulalo in Makira/Ulawa Province, according to published reports. More precisely the sighting of Malaulalo was due to a local voyage that set out from Guadalcanal in a small boat, In the accounts the brigantine Santiago, commanded by Alférez Hernando Énriquez…
AUSTRALIA will begin a climate resilience partnership with the Global Green Growth Institute in 2025 to assist Solomon Islands Government with climate change national adaptation planning and vulnerability assessments. This was announced by the Australian High Commissioner to Solomin Islands, Rod Hilton in his latest fortnightly update on the progress of programs that Australia is…
THE Governor-General (GG) Reverend David Tiva Kapu has highlighted that Solomon Islands needs peace to achieve its goals for 2025. The Governor-General emphasised the necessity national peace to the achievement of the national goals for this year in his New Year’s Address on the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC). Governor-General Kapu said the country’s successful…
A TOTAL of seven pageants will be competing in the 2025 Miss Pacific Islands Pageant to be hosted in Honiara next month. The pageant is scheduled to be staged in the first week of February. The participating countries in this year’s pageant is of course the host, Solomon Islands which will be represented by Miss…
A representative of the Garavu tribe, Joel Jackson, has raised concerns over $2 million in royalty payments made by Win Win Investment Limited to the Koehota Landowners Association (KLA). Jackson alleges that the funds have been misused by KLA leaders. According to a Pan Oceanic Bank (POB) account statement covering the period from December 28,…