Less than 10 beds available THE Correctional Centre at Rove is reportedly full. Principal Magistrate Fatima Taeburi raised this issue last Friday when a defence indicated making a bail application for his client. Ms Taeburi then urged Public Solicitor’s lawyer Clifton Ruele to submit the bail application due to lack of space at Rove. She…
A roll of Santa Cruz feather money was sold for an incredible £22,750 (SBD$216,963.32) at a recent tribal antiquities sale in the United Kingdom. A UK website, www.blackmorevale.co.uk, reported the stunning Santa Cruz feather currency fetched the highest bid during the Tribal Art and Antiquities sale at Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms on March 1.…
Dear Editor – Solomon Islands’ Baha’is Celebrate Naw-Ruz, the New Year, B.E. 174, Monday, 20 March 2017. The Honiara Baha’i community’s programme begins at the Baha’i Centre at 9:00am. Monday is a Baha’i Holy Day on which work is to be suspended. The Baha’iEra, B.E. 174 is coincidental with the Gregorian calendar 21 March 2017.…
Dear Editor – After 20 years of closely monitoring societal issues in the Solomon Islands, both on the ground and from afar, I am increasingly alarmed about the high rates of alcoholism manifested in the reported increasing incidences of domestic and family violence, drunk driving, communicable diseases, crimes of violence, including wounding, and cases of…
Dear Editor – I refer to a letter earlier this week re SOE [State Owned Enterprises] board appointments. On checking I was informed the writer had never applied for a position on any SOE board. All board appointments are governed by the SOE Act which requires the positions to be advertised and then go through…
Dear Editor – Last week Sastol Management donated three flat screen TVs to the NRH for installation in the Children’s Ward of the Pediatric Unit. A member of the Happy Isles Foundation, Doreen Kuper thanked Sastol for the kind donation. The Chairman of the Hapi Isles Health Foundation, Joel Lamani, also gave similar thanks. Mr…
Dear Editor – The latest statistics of traffic accident released to the media by Inspector Brian Surimalefo of the RSIPF’s Traffic Branch, are quite shocking to read. Inspector Surimalefo revealed that there were more than 300 road traffic accidents in 2016 causing injury to a hundred-plus victims and 5 accident fatalities. In the first three…
Dear Editor – Every day I went past Honiara main business hub, I could see that there are business people who continue to sell their products outside their stores. One thing that keeps me wondering is if these business people are allowed by the Honiara City Council to carry out their business outside their doors.…
Dear Editor – There is enough evidence in the public fore to convince us that we can bring about change in this country. But that depends on you and me (everyone) to do the right thing come 2018. We must not be proud and arrogant as not to do the right thing for ourselves because…
Dear Editor – It was reported that a ‘back garden project’ is currently underway at Voruvoru in Northwest Choiseul. The project is under the careful supervision of the Climate Change Officer, Samson Koneke, as part of the Choiseul Integrated Climate Change and Adaptation Programme (CHICCAP). The project is said to be aimed at raising awareness…