Last week I attended the opening of the Mock Parliament debate about Constituency Development Funds. It was great to see so many women in the Parliament Chamber. As a representative of one of Solomon Islands Development Partners and a guest in Solomon Islands over the past two years, I have attending many meetings focusing on…
The planned HFA coaches and administrators workshop in Partnership with Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) that should kick start yesterday at the SIFF Academy Conference room has been postponed to a later date. This was due to low turn out from club members. Organisers said the workshop has been deferred for a later date and…
Five schools in Honiara have been earmarked to undergo the pilot program of the Chess in Schools (CiS) program for this year. This was confirmed by the Solomon Islands Chess Federation (SICF) secretary general, Michael Qwanafia yesterday. The five schools are Chung Wah School, Woodford International, Perch primary school, King George secondary school, Tenaru secondary…
Parisisi village in North Guadalcanal constituency is currently hosting seven-a-side soccer knock out without any registration fee. The hosting of the game is part of a program by the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency Martin Sophage’ to engage youths participate in games and to stop them from engaging in unlawful activities during weekends.…
Solomon Warriors FC may have been held to a disappointing 1-1 draw to Malaita Kingz FC over the weekend but that does not wash away the fact they are way out of reach for any other contestant to challenge the TSL title for this season. The defending champions are currently leading with 28 points with…
The Government is facing a budget crisis barely a month after it rushed through an historic $3.2 billion election budget only last December. As a result, Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo’s Government has been forced to slash this year’s constituency funding by a massive 60 per cent. This means that instead of getting $6 million…
Honiara have welcome and celebrated this new year by witnessing mega performances from duo international artists put on by reggae legend son ‘Julian Marley’ and bombastic man himself ‘Shaggy’. However this time next month we will be proud and sensational to hear from our Pacific Islands renowned artists – George Fiji Veikoso and Spawn Breezie.…
Dear Editor – I wish to express my concern over the current stature of Renbel provincial government. I can see the current situation of the Renbel province as chaotic or in our Pidgin version “Olobaot”. After seceding from the Central province I don’t see advancement in our province. The situation is extremely hard to believe.…
Dear Editor – There are people who claim to be Christians and live with GOD’s living word each day and pray each day for GOD to help them especially manage certain obligations that they wanted to achieve but inside their heart is not clean at all. And this is a disgrace to GOD himself. As…
Dear Editor – If Solomon Islands is to developed economically, it would have done some decades ago as millions of dollars had been pumped into the constituencies for rural development through the MP’s. Today our people including the writer continue to face economic hardships because of lack of economic development in the rural areas. Why…