THE two days women’s right workshop is underway at Rock Heaven Inn in Honiara. The workshop started yesterday and will finish today. According to the women’s right program manager Patricia Pollard, the workshop is being organized to further inform the civil society groups of the women’s right action movement in the country. Pollard added that…
West Rennell landowners labelled the Attorney General’s (AG) media statement as merely a legal opinion, which raised more questions that needs clarification. Spilling-off disappointment yesterday Richard Pautangata Hakatingisa’a questioned the statement from the AG conveyed through the Prime Minister’s Press Secretariat yesterday, claiming AG’s legal opinion does not consider pending court cases over those registered…
THE National Teachers Education Conference on Developing Competent, Committed and Professional Teachers for Solomon Islands has come to an end. The two days conference which started on Tuesday ended on Wednesday with numerous presentations from education experts from three major regional institutes namely University of Goroka and University of South Pacific SI Campus and off…
Leaders and representatives of Malaita Outer-Islands made a resolution on Thursday 23rd July 2015 to fully support the proposed Federal Government System. They met in Honiara for the week-long awareness program on the 2nd 2014 Draft Federal Constitution of Solomon Islands last week. Representatives from Luaniua, Pelau and Sikaiana islands made the resolution after intelligibly…
Solomon Islands Scouts and Coastwatchers will have another opportunity to be formally recognised for the role they played in World War II, through the presentation of the Solomon Islands Scouts and Coastwatchers Medallion as part of Guadalcanal Day commemorations. The first medallions were presented to family members of former Solomon Islands Scouts and Coastwatchers at…
THE Public has been warned to look out for fake $100 notes said to have been circulating in Honiara. Various people had already reported being sold the counterfeit not in the past weeks. One of the victims, who is a betel nut seller at Rove said someone used the counterfeit note this week to buy…
MADRE Chocolate owner and founder from the United States (US) says there is a potential for Solomon Islands to set up a chocolate factory in the future. Speaking in an interview with the Solomon Star yesterday Dr Nat Bletter, a chocolate maker based in Hawaii said, its possible to set up a chocolate factory if…
…To take charge of all business operations within the ports area THE Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) is taking control over all business operations at the ports area as part of its reform. The reform program will see changes happening at both the international and domestic ports area. SIPA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Colin Yeo…
THE GOVERNMENT through the Ministry of Forestry has issued a seizure notice against Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID) to halt any logging operations on Rennell and exports out of the country. Permanent Secretary (PS) for the Ministry of Forest & Research Vaeno Vigulu disclosed this yesterday. This follows claims the mining company had felled and…
HUMAN trafficking still persists in Solomon Islands according to the 2015 U.S Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released on Monday. It stated that Trafficking in persons is modern slavery. It involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion. With more than 20 million people today trapped in human trafficking, also called modern slavery, it is…