Hard on the heels of commencing a significant codeshare agreement with Qantas Airways, Solomon Airlines has now officially validated a tripartite code-share agreement with fellow Melanesian carriers Air Niugini and Air Vanuatu. Initially announced in principle last February, the watershed agreement confirming the code-share was officially signed by the heads of all three carriers at…
LAWSON Tama national stadium will be the place to be for many families as one of the biggest entertaining events in Honiara returns this weekend. Dubbed as the ‘Carols in the Islands”, the event will again see thousands of Honiara residents being part of the event this coming Saturday, 12th December. It was confirmed that,…
CONGREGATION at KOBITO 2 church in east Honiara were shocked on Sunday morning after discovering their power mixer went missing on Saturday night. Speaking to the Solomon Star on Tuesday, Esther Mae said, the mixer was locked in the church building. “Some thief may have climbed through the window and remove that mixer. “This is…
PARIS, (SPREP) —- Before it has even been agreed upon, the world is already failing the current proposal for the new Climate Change agreement to reduce global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. While the Pacific islands call for the 190+ parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to limit global warming…
Chief of Klousuu Patterson Divasia is calling on the national government and provincial leaders of Guadalcanal to seriously look at the need of highland people of North East Guadalcanal to have a separate constituency from people from the coastal areas. Speaking to the Solomon Star Divasia recently, the chief said, people of Kolousu’u from the…
About 15.6 percent antenatal women reported that they had been victims to some forms of physical or sexual violence from male intimate partners in the past twelve months; this was revealed by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services latest findings. The findings also revealed about 12.8% have experience being forced to have sexual intercourse…
The Minister for Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology Hon Samuel Manetoali has called for the collective establishment of practical medium and long-term carbon emission pathways to limit temperature increase to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius in the remaining days of the 21st United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or COP21. Hon Manetoali…
SENIOR journalism lecturer at the University of the South Pacific (USP) Dr Shalendra Singh has acknowledged the performance of Solomon Islands students studying journalism at USP Laucala Campus in Suva, Fiji. Speaking to the Solomon Star, Dr Singh said Solomon Islands students did well over the past years and have received best overall awards in…
Solomon Islands Women in Business Association (SIWIBA) has successfully hosted its first ever Corporate Event with their Gala Night Launch on Thursday at the Monarch Bar & Grill, IBS. The launching was well attended by corporate houses around Honiara, who braved the rain and enjoyed the night with SIWIBA who received Corporate Sponsorships that will…
LIVE & Learn organisation based in Honiara is set to kick off the RED CADIM VAELENS project in Malaita province by educating rural people there about violence issues. Two officers from the organisation have traveled to the province to carry out assessment on the level of people’s understanding on violence and 16 days of activism…