A PACIFIC Islands economics professor has expressed seeing little change in Solomon Islands welfare in the last decade but nonetheless what has changed is the intent to drive economic improvements by the leadership of the country’s financial institutions. Professor Paresh Narayan, a Fiji-born academic of Indo-Fijian heritage, was one of the key speakers at the…
TWO young men who confessed to breaking into a house at Tasahe B in West Honiara in April and stealing properties worth $56,000 have been sentenced to 14 months in prison. Ron Mewa, 19, and Jack Junior Haikiu, 21, were sentenced after they pleaded guilty to the charge of House Breaking and Felony. The defendant…
Twenty-five education sector leaders from across Solomon Islands are attending a Change Leadership course at the University of Newcastle, Australia, supported by the Australian Government. Training participants include senior officials from the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD), Provincial Education Providers from all nine provinces, representatives from the Education Sector Support Program (ESSP),…
The Solomon Islands and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) today, Thursday 7th November officially signed an agreement on Mutual Visa Exemption for ordinary passports holders from both countries to travel freely. The signing ceremony between the Solomon Islands Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Hon. Peter Shanel Agovaka, and PRC Ambassador, His Excellency Cai Weiming…
IT has emerged that a Caretaker Cabinet approved the DOCA deal with Hall Chadwick liquidators in February 2024 – just two months before the joint elections in April this year. By then, the DCGA government – under the leadership of Manasseh Sogavare – was already in a caretaker mode after the 11th Parliament rose on 31…
A ROTARY club in Australia has donated a number of vital triage medical diagnostic kits to the Western Provincial Gizo Hospital. The donated kits worth thousands of dollars were personally delivered by Colin Scobie Redcliffe Sunrise Rotary Club Vice President to the hospital administration on Friday 1 November. The kits were received by the Western Provincial Health Director Dr Dickson…
The Institute of Solomon Islands Accountants (ISIA) has initiated implementation of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) requirements on its public practitioners starting in 2024 onwards. This means that members of the Institute who are registered as public practitioners will be required to submit records of their CPD activities and hours at the end of this year…
A USD15 million project to support climate change adaptation and risk-resilience building across the country’s nine provinces was officially launched in Honiara on Friday. The multi-million-dollar funding is provided under the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) project. LoCAL project is part of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to support climate change adaptation…
THE Malaita Provincial Youth Council has expressed its admiration for the business development initiatives undertaken by the youths of Ambu village in the Aoke-Langalanga Constituency of Malaita Province. The Ambu youths recently launched a poultry project after several of their leaders participated in an online learning platform simulation supported by the Mala I Tolo organization and learned about entrepreneurship and other relevant courses.…
THE former police officer who obtained $40,000 under false pretence from a man in 2019 is now serving a one year and 10 months imprisonment term. She was also ordered to undergo spiritual counselling whilst in prison on the topics of ‘Falsehood vs being Truthful, Freedom in Christ, Living in Contentment and Peace and Truth…