THE Office of the Auditor General [OAG] says they were pleased to witness two of its managers graduating from the University of the South Pacific (USP) last Friday. Randall Noda and Jenny Tura were amongst 154 students who graduated at the ceremony, held at Maranatha Hall. A senior representative of the Office said that this…
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MAKIRA-ULAWA premier Thomas Weape says the care-taker NCRA government under Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo was a “disappointment”. He said he was very disappointed the government was unable to complete the unfinished Ngorangora Airfield. Mr Weape said the government started upgrading the airfield in 2013 by building a fence around the airstrip. The government also…
Malaita’s cash flow problem was made worse by lack of payment of revenue expected from logging companies, premier Edwin Suibaea says. He clarified this during an interview with the Solomon Star this week. Mr Suibaea said logging companies operating in the province owed Malaita a significant amount of revenue. It’s understood loggers were unable to…
KIRAKIRA Hospital, Makira-Ulawa, will resume full services soon, authorities there say. The hospital’s operation was suspended June this year due to water shortage and lack of space to dump hospital wastes. Health Director Dr Arnold Nguduamae said all services will resume as soon as the installation of the incinerator was done. He said the incinerator…
PEOPLE related to Kahua land, in Makira-Ulawa Province, are standing up together to oppose a proposed logging operation on the island. Educated sons of the land took the action after learning a few “selfish” villagers who claimed to own the land, invited Asian logger Elite Logging to operate there. The land has not been touched…
THE Gizo public are stunned after last Monday night’s events which saw a senior female police officer stoning the Gizo Police Station after an argument. According to witnesses, the female officer had an argument with other officers on duty and then came out and started hauling stones at the building. Witnesses said they were stunned…
THE father who earlier entered guilty pleas to incest charges and another of attempted rape is likely to be charged with rape soon. This was after the court found evidence of rape charges in the summary of agreed facts and from the Victim Impact Statement from the accused’s daughters.Justice Stephen Pallaras upon this finding vacated…
CARETAKER Finance and Treasury minister Rick Hou has released information about Government expenditure up to the end of June, 2014 prior to deliberations of the recent Supplementary Budget Bill by Parliament in the past two weeks. Minister Hou outlined that consolidated expenditure for the first half of 2014 was $1,621.8 million against revised pro rata…
MALAITA’S financial woes are deepening, resulting in provincial workers not getting paid again last week. This is the third time workers are not paid in time in recent months. Workers told the Solomon Star on Friday that on pay weeks, their salaries were supposed to be in their bank accounts by Wednesday. “Until Friday evening,…