The dust is still swirling, far from settled, and already people are calling the 2022 elections the worst in Papua New Guinea’s history. Is that correct? I don’t know – the 2002 and 2017 elections provide stiff competition. And in some ways, 2022 hasn’t been as bad as I feared. The PNG Electoral Commission abandoned…
MALAITA Premier Daniel Suidani took time during the Malaita 39th Second Appointed Day anniversary to express his disagreement with continuing reference to provincial governments as mere agents of the national government. The Malaita Provincial Premier is of the view that those who refer to provincial governments as agents of the national government have taken the meaning…
THE Franjti Shipping Ltd’s new passenger vessel, MV Auki Express, successfully made its first passenger voyage to Auki, Malaita Province, yesterday. Auki Express broke the record as the fastest passenger vessel to ever serve the Honiara- Auki route with only two hours running time between Honiara and Auki. Passengers who travelled onboard MV Auki Express…
RHINOVIRUS and Influenza H3 are the main drivers of the current outbreak of flu-like illness in Honiara and Malaita Province, the Minister of Health and Medical Services Dr. Culwick Togamana announced in his special nation-wide address yesterday. He said during the week from 25 to 30 July, the National Public Health Surveillance Unit has recorded…
JUDGEMENT on the case of two juveniles accused of setting fire to the leaf hut next to the Parliament Building during last November’s unrest will be delivered this afternoon. Chief Magistrate Emma Garo will hand down the judgement at 2pm this afternoon. The judgement was previously listed last Monday but Ms Garo had it further…
Govt to table 2022 supplementary budget with Politicians as ‘biggest winners’ THE Government is spending an additional $284 million-plus to take us to the end of the year and, as in any budgetary appropriations, there are winners and losers. Politicians are amongst the biggest winners in the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2022. Finance Minister Harry…
Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogvare today welcomed the Ambassador of Portugal, His Excellency Pedro Rodrigues Da Silva into the country. H.E Da Silva is in the country to formally introduce himself after he was unable to pay a courtesy call on the Prime Minister earlier because of the Global Pandemic. Prime Minister Sogavare assured the…
AFTER ignoring High Court enforcement orders for four and a half years, the ruling DCGA government has finally run out of steam and will comply. Within hours of a High Court ruling on Tuesday 16th August 2022 that dismissed government application to suspend enforcement Orders in the Levers Solomon Ltd v Attorney General case, the…
OFFICE of the Prime Minister will respond to the “Malaita People’s Log of Claim” once they see the contents of the claim. Special Secretary to Prime Minister Albert Kabui in a press conference yesterday said they have to see it first then see how they will respond to it. He said as reported in the…
Portugal’s new Ambassador to Solomon Islands, His Excellency Pedro Rodrigues da Silva has presented his credentials to the Governor General Sir David Vunagi this morning (Thursday, 18th August). In his remarks, Ambassador Pedro Rodrigues da Silva said Solomon Islands and Portugal are geographically far apart but he believed the Peoples of the two countries share…