THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday led a media tour of the almost complete, expanded campus of the University of the South Pacific in Honiara which will provide students better access to higher education. Funded by a $15.4 million concessional loan and a grant of $1.5 million from the ADB-administered Clean Energy Fund, the Higher Education…
THE cruise ship, National Geographic Orion, is leaving Solomon Islands for Vanuatu today after spending six days visiting remote places and enjoying the rich cultures of the visited islands. The state-of-the-art 102-passenger vessel arrived in the country on Friday last week in Lata, Temotu Province. It underwent clearance in Lata and travelled onward to Malapu…
Solomon Islands High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (PNG) has briefly met with the new European Union (EU) Ambassador to PNG last week in Port Moresby. During the meeting, the two officials, His Excellency (H.E) William Soaki and H.E Jacques Fradin shared and discussed issues of common interest between the EU, SI and the region. In…
OUR Telekom will soon launch its mobile money service. This was confirmed by the company’s Information staff last Thursday during an information-sharing session with Honiara’s artisan community. The Our Telekom Information staff briefed the local artisans about the company’s range of new products that could help them market their products online. Amongst the range of…
Solomon Airlines joins IATA ‘25 by 2025’ initiative to improve female representation in the aviation industry SOLOMON Airlines marked this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) by proudly highlighting the diverse achievements of the airline’s female staff. The national carrier invited female representatives from various departments to take part in a public parade in Honiara on…
HONIARA City Council (HCC) Clerk, Justus Denni, has welcomed onboard the Coast Watchers Security & Investigation Services and the West Gate Security Services upon winning the bid to provide security and public order services at Central Market and Kukum Market. Speaking during the signing ceremony on Thursday, Mr Denni thanked the contractors for putting their…
MALAITA Premier Martin Fini has announced the creation of a body to help coordinate economic development activities on Malaita and to repair past differences between the National Government and the Province. The move to establish the Malaita Economic Development Initiative – MEDI for short – is an intervention to bury the disruptive activities in the…
Three years since commercial operations started on 1 February 2019, there has been significant increase in available international and domestic bandwidth capacity and usage. SISCC’s technology and business innovation together with good user experience has made it an attractive provider for domestic and international customers. Its growing traffic capacity cannot be fully offloaded to satellite…
Members of the business community had the opportunity to be updated on election reforms in the Solomon Islands on Friday 3rd March 2023. This was during a Business After 5 (BA5) event hosted by the Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) where the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission’s Electoral Reform Taskforce presented on the…
The Hon. Minister for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) Augustine Auga has left the country Tuesday 07th March for the Pacific Head of Agriculture and Forestry Service convene to be held in Fiji on the 9th of March, to be followed by the Pacific Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry meeting on the 10th…