Adrian Wickham (OBE), the Chairman of the SolTuna board, will be delivering the keynote address at the Manufacturing Industry Symposium that will be taking place this week. Mr Wickham, a qualified electrical engineer from PNGUT 1978, can be described as the stateman equivalent for the Private Sector with a career in the fisheries sector but…
A FORMER graduate and product of Papapi technical school in Mondo, Ranoggah, Western Province, says the school offers an alternative for school dropouts to pursue their dreams in marine engineering and seek further education. Dutley Mamipitu was one of the first three students who underwent training at the mechanical and engineering school when the school…
Solomon Islands as a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 23rd of September 2008, officially deposited the Instrument of Ratification to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 22nd of June 2023. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted at the sixty…
Reports of Surface Access Agreement process hijack emerge as 11 of 24 landowning tribes in East Malaita withdraw their support from the mineral prospecting operation of New Asian Mining company which the Malaita Provincial Government issued a business license to after the Fini-led MNGFR took office THE Malaita Provincial Government under the leadership of Premier…
A JOURNALISM and Media student of the Solomon Islands National University (SINU), Elron Dokese, has posted disturbing images of sea-level rise which continues to destroy his village of Ughele on South Rendova in the Western Province. In posting the images, Dokese called for urgent action such as the building of sea-walls and wave-breakers to mitigate…
THE Second bi-annual grants for schools in the country this year may likely be affected. This was stated by a senior educationist and school leader from Malaita Province after attending a high-level meeting in Honiara recently. The senior educationist who spoke on the condition of anonymity said schools in the country may be affected because…
POLICE commissioner Mostyn Mangau says he will be updating the media when shop owners who illegally sold t-shirts and shorts bearing the 2023 Pacific Games Logo and Mascot are charged. At his weekly conference with the media on Thursday, Commissioner Mangau said they have received the complaints about the matter and are investigating it. “I…
OFC: SOLOMON Islands have struck first in Group C of the OFC Women’s U-19 Championship 2023 following a 1-0 victory over Tahiti at HFC Bank Stadium in Fiji. Tahiti dominated the early exchanges and controlled possession in the midfield and will be disappointed they weren’t ahead at the break. The Tahitians suffered a massive early…
NEWLY elected president of the Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF), Donald Marahare has acknowledged the support rendered for the SIFF presidency post. Marahare who is the SIFF Legal Counsel told SIFF Media following the election of the SIFF Executive he is happy for everyone who has supported him and have the trust in him to…
MALAITA Province Youth Council President, Philip Subu, has called on the Minister of Health and Medical Services, Culwick Togamana and his Permanent Secretary, Pauline McNeil, to resign. Mr Subu made the call due to outstanding health service issues the country failed to address to save the lives of people under the leadership of Minister Togamana…