EIGHTY young people graduated from Youth@Work Auki last Friday after completing voluntary community services at various communities around Auki.This is the second Youth@work graduation held in Malaita. Speaking at the graduation, guest of honour Pastor David Gurau praised the program,saying many of Malaita’s young people have benefited through business and community participation. Mr Gurau said…
From 10%, NPF members get 5.3% interest this year MEMBERS of the National Provident Fund (NPF) will receive 5.3% interest payments to their savings this year. Finance minister Snyder Rini announced this yesterday. This year’s rate was a reduction from last year’s 10% interest payment. Some NPF members received the announcement yesterday with disappointment and…
15.00 120 Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”,serif;} Brisbane, Australia – THE ninth Australia-Solomon Islands Business forum is scheduled for next month in Honiara. A statement from the Australia Pacific…
For the first time in Honiara, a Careers Market targeted at post-school students to discover employment, training and further education opportunities will be held at Woodford International School on 31 May 2017 from 10am-3pm. Partnering with Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SICCI), Woodford will host this event to encourage links between businesses and…
THE founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Eagon Group of companies has left the country yesterday after spending a week in the country as part of his annual visit to the country. Young-Ju Park was in the country since last Wednesday to visit the Eagon Pacific Plantation Limited____s (EPPL) operation at Arara…
People of East Malaita constituency has collectively endorsed the plan to establish a Constituency Credit Union scheme in the presence of their Member of Parliament Manasseh Maelanga at Faumamanu Market last Saturday. People voted in favour of the proposal when Hon. Maelanga put the question to them and pledged to inject $100,000.00 from the RDCF…
The Ministry of Forestry and Research on Tuesday clarified concerns raised by Premier Patrick Vasuni to explain current operations of Tropical Resources Ltd on Gela Islands. In a statement yesterday the Forestry Ministry said procedures to acquire felling licenses are clear, and unless the Premier of Central Province overlooked the records and history of the…
Busu cultural center in the heart of Langa-Langa Lagoon, Malaita province will on Friday host the biggest number of tourists ever when 140 foreign tourists will grace their shore on a cruise boat this morning. The last time that the Island cultural centre hosted a cruise boat was 29th of November 2016 when 80 guests…
THE Government’s revenue collected in the last six months of 2016 went down by 8 percent (%) to $1,746 million, the CBSI’s March MonetaryPolicy Statement shows. According to the document, the drop was 3% below the budget, and was also 13% lower than the same period last year. Despite a rise in taxes, the decline…
PAN Oceanic Bank (POB) on Tuesday launched its savings deposit campaign scheme at its Hyundai Mall branch in Honiara. The bank’s Chief Operating Officer Adrian Nigel said this is a product innovation scheme where the bank will give out gifts to its customers for huge deposits. The free gifts scheme for the bank’s customers is…