EIGHTEEN new local lawyers have taken their oaths of admission yesterday before Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer. Sir Albert in his remarks during the ceremonial event yesterday said in taking the oath of allegiance and legal practitioner’s oath, they have subscribed to two fundamental duties. “……one owed to your clients and the other more important…
SOLOMON Airline is set to conduct two international flights to Brisbane on the 6th and 20th of this month. In a statement issued yesterday, the Airline management said that the two passenger flights have been approved only from Honiara to Brisbane. “We have been approved to carry passengers on two flights from Honiara to Brisbane…
THE Japanese Ambassador to Solomon Island has announced that his government would provide an ISUZU garbage truck under its grassroots project to Malaita Provincial Government. H.E. Yasuhiro Morimoto revealed that the garbage truck costs SBD$642,000. The Malaita Provincial Government and the Japanese Embassy yesterday signed the grant contract agreement to formalize the project. During the…
QUESTIONS are being asked as to whether the initial design of the Government’s Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) took into account strategic considerations critical to long term returns on the overall tax-payer-funded $320 million investment. “Has the initial design for example embraced target sectors, the level of the proposed investment and returns from those sectors, the…
POLICE Chief Mostyn Mangau has assured members of the public that there is no police front liner protest over unpaid Covid-19 allowances as reported in the media, Thursday. He made this clarification to reporters yesterday at his weekly conference at Rove Police Headquarters. “I want to assure the members of the public that there is…
MPs await RCDF funds from China By ANDREW FANASIANewsroom, Honiara THE politicians will pocket their shares of the Rural Constituency Development Fund (RCDF) contributions of SBD$1.8 million from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) anytime soon. This was revealed by a reliable source within the government. The source who spoke to this paper in anonymity…
JUST as Honiara-based members of the Solomon Islands Nurses Association (SINA) have returned to work after a two-day lightning sit-in protest, another group of frontline workers has threatened staging a similar sit-in protest. Police officers on frontline duties in the emergency zone, which covers the area between Alligator Creek in east Honiara to Poha River…
Ontong Javans livelihood snatched again By ANDREW FANASIAHoniara Newsroom BECH-DE-MER valued at over $500,000 was confiscated in the early morning hours of yesterday at the Honiara wharf by officers from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force. This paper was tipped by a lawyer on Tuesday night that…
CONTRACTORS engaged to collect rubbish around Honiara City are demanding Honiara City Council (HCC) to pay their bills. A contractor responsible for rubbish collection in Vura and Panatina Wards said it had been over five months since their last payment. “We have families and need money to put bread on the table and yet the…
Or the health system spiral down By ANDREW FANASIANewsroom, Honiara THE negative comments made by the government officials and certain individual doctors do not speak well of their capacity as government officials and medical Doctors. Some nurses spoken to this paper who wish to hide their identity said that sentiments like ‘they do not need…