READ SI has started Phase 2 of the National Literacy Campaign. After impacting 33 villages in Phase 1 (June and July) now the READ SI teacher trainers are going out for October through December training village teachers and helping to set up classes and libraries. In Phase 1 only two provinces were not visited and…
Zion Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church in East Honiara over the weekend successfully conducted a mass wedding. It was described as a historical achievement and milestone for the Church to host such a mass wedding ceremony. Eight couples who have been living together for years without properly legalising their union as couple underwent through the…
Women in the Northern region of Malaita province attended their first formal floral art training. According to reports reaching Solomon Star over the weekend, a total of 38 women from a group named Self Employed Women Association (SEWA) from North Malaita participated in training. SEWA is a women organisation of the Manaili tribe in Ward…
More than 40 candidates from the four Catholic Communities in Ulawa District under the patronage of Saint John the Baptist Kirakira Parish received the sacrament of Confirmation at St Joseph chapel Su’umoli by Archbishop Chris Cardone OP last week. Conformation is one of the seven sacraments and the third sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church…
Archbishop Christopher M Cardone Op of the Catholic Church last week visited the communities of Ulawa District in Makira Ulawa Province. His Pastoral visitation to the province was to meet with people of Ulawa District. The chairman, John Wala’ala, welcomed His Grace on behalf of the Su’umoli communities. “I wish to warmly welcome you to…
BY now you might have heard the “Half Tikopia” song as it dominates the airwaves, especially on Paoa FM. The artist behind this song is the 24-year-old Phillip Lauka of North Choiseul and North Malaita descent. Known as ‘Black M’, music for Phillip is just a hobby. “I listen to music every day, and I…
FUNKY and Rushee are hitting the airwaves again with their brand new single “Nice Bola Lo Kula”. The new song featured other notable artists in PNG like Young Dee, Drex Blunteh and J Liko who is also part Solomon Islands. The brothers Funky & Rushee are currently based in Port Moresby and have been living…
SINCE its inception in 2004, Solomon Islands Women in Business (SIWIBA) has always been a Honiara based association. Not because we decided to keep it that way but due to financial constraints has not been able to. However, it has always been a long time dream to eventually reach out to the provinces when time…
AUSTRALIAN-BASED Solomon Islands Hip Hop artist, Kera, working in collaboration with local artist Radical T.K have established a music production studio-”warrior records” at Gizo in the Western province. Speaking to Paoa FM, Kera said the studio was implemented to help boost the local talented artists down in the western province, and other artist around the…
MORE than 500 members of the Koa Hill Anglican congregation in central Honiara convened on Sunday 24th September to mark their church’s Saint Bishop Patterson Day. The church was named after a martyr Bishop John Coleridge Patterson from England who was murdered at Nukapu, an atoll in the Reef Islands in the Santa Cruz Islands,…