A group of Pacific journalists are in Australia meeting Australian politicians and business leaders as part of their development program on news media and the role of women in the economy. The five-week program is ran by the Melbourne-based Asia Pacific Journalism Centre under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australia Awards scheme. Three…
MOTHER’S Day was celebrated peacefully in Makira-Ulawa provincial capital Kirakira, police say. Provincial police commander Richard Hane relayed this to the Solomon Star yesterday. “It’s peaceful, there are no criminal incidents over the weekend. People just celebrated with their mothers at home and enjoy themselves,” Mr Hane said. He added this was the same all…
THE organisers for J Boog concert say they won’t able to organise the show this month. The show was cancelled two weeks ago due to the bad weather and flash flood that struck Honiara city. Heritage Park Hotel who invited the reggae star stated in a previous statement stated the show will not happen. This…
A TWO-WEEK long spiritual campaign by Pr Alwin Wako of the Seventh Day Adventist Church at the Honiara Central market will end tonight. The campaign also ends with a baptism of 30 plus new SDA Church members expected to be held at around 7:30pm. The campaign, which focuses on the theme “Basics of salvation” is…
THOUSANDS of Christians congregate to witness the Passion of Christ drama performed in Honiara on Friday. The crucifixion story was dramatized by youths and parishioners of Tuvaruhu Anglican church. Tens of thousands of people processed from All Saints church at Point Cruz to St Barnabas Cathedral where the Passion of Christ drama was performed. Men…
FOR the past six days, women of United Church in Honiara were engaged to feed six of the evacuation centres in Honiara with simple nutritious meals. The national government provided $50,000 for each church group to assist in feeding the more than 9,000 evacuees who registered at the centres. The United Church women’s group was…
The Solomon Islands Women in Business Association or SIWIBA has announced that its proposed second Mere’s market had been deferred to a later date. In a statement the association said it regrets to advise the members and the public that the upcoming Meres’ market proposed for April 23rd -25th at Ports Authority Ground ,near Commonwealth…
SEVENTH Day Adventist church at White River, West Honiara, received $40,000 from the constituency’s church funds on Tuesday. The funding will help the church to complete unfinished jobs with their building, according to chairman of the church Henry Waitua. “This funding will help us to complete the unfinished jobs inside our church building, which were…
FANS of popular music boy bands Dezine and Onetox are furious with a recently created page on social media network Facebook which targeted insults directly at the two groups. The page which was believed to have been created over the weekend by an unknown anti-Dezine and Onetox person was aimed at receiving any or all…
Musical concert to raise funds for the flood victims is being planned for Easter Monday. In preparation for that a committee was formed last week called– April Rains-Flood Band Laev Komiti. Its role is to organize the hosting of Band Leav: a music fest of contemporary and religious bands and cultural groups from within Honiara…