THE newly elected Western Provincial Government (WPG) Executive under the leadership of Billy Veo is being urged to step up their monitoring and surveillance activities of logging companies operating in the province. This came after claims that there are companies currently in operating in the province without following proper process to acquire their operating licenses.…
Western Provincial Tourism Division has received the sum of $1 million dollars support from the Solomon Island Government (SIG) to boost up its tourism activities in Western Province. The $1M will be projected under a Cruise Ship Jetty Project that will be carried out later sometime this year in Gizo at the provincial capital western…
AUSTRAC, Australia’s financial intelligence unit (FIU), has provided Solomon Islands FIU with a new data analytics system that will aid in the detection of money laundering and be used to combat criminal and national security threats. The TAIPAN system will enable intelligence analysts in Solomon Islands FIU to identify suspicious financial patterns that can trigger…
COCONUT farmers in West Kwaio are excited to see the expansion and implementation of coconut rehabilitation project in West Kwaio constituency. The project is initiated by Ward 28 Youth Council through support of Member of Parliament for West Kwaio Constituency Hon. Claudios Tei’ifi. Report reaching this paper said the project implementation team in West Kwaio…
Western Province is one of the top performing provinces under the Provincial Constituency Development Fund (PCDF) for the past15 years with a record of 381 projects have been undertaken. Western Province Premier Billy Veo in his Sine Die Motion speech on Friday highlighted this. “Records under the Ministry of Provincial Government since the interception of…
GIZO: CASH circulation in any economy of a country is very important to keep businesses and trading activities going. In the country its important to allow our people to engage in economic activities and earn cash to help sustain their lives and improve their standard of living. However, the higher rate of cash circulation always…
CHINA Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) – the general contractor for the China-funded 2023 Pacific Games Stadium Project – has shared some of its resources with communities around the Henderson area in east Honiara. The company announced this week it had just completed the rehabilitation and improvement of an interior road around the Henderson area.…
SHORTLAND island’s locally baked smoked fish is back hitting the Buin market on Bougainville located just across the border between Solomon islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG). This had taken a jump following the opening of the international border in July last year. This means people of Shortlands island have earned alot of income through…
THE Honiara City Council (HCC) will only honour contractors authorised by the City Clerk. A noticed issued by the HCC City Clerk stated that Solomon Islands Government Ministries, State-Owned Enterprises, Private Sector Entities and Individuals that no procurement contracts for small works will be recognised and honoured by HCC unless prior approval is obtained from…
MALAITA Province’s Minister of Finance, Nelson Lenty, has announced the province’s revised 2022-2023 Budget Estimates in the Malaita Provincial Assembly. Mr Lenty, on Monday this week, announced that the total Revenue Budget Summary is estimated at SBD 24,819,672, whilst the total Expenditure Budget Summary is estimated at SBD 24,819,672. He added that the total Recurrent…