VIRU Harbour Community in New Georgia Island in the Western Province has been selected as a beneficiary of the $160-million Forest Value Enhancement Project for Solomon Islands Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Programme. The multi-million-dollar project funding was announced by the Vice President of the Department of Policy and Evaluation at MCC, Ms Alicia Philips…
Japan is building a new hospital for Malaita Province as early as the end of this year WORK is expected to start soon on a new hospital for Malaita Province, thanks to Japan. Japan’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Solomon Islands, Miwa Yoshiaki, confirmed this in an exclusive interview with Solomon Star yesterday. Ambassador Yoshiaki…
THE National Crime Prevention Department (NCPD) of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is proactively working to achieve the three goals of its five-year Strategic Direction Plan 2021-2025. The three goals are to: Improve community confidence and trust; Work in close partnership with stakeholders and the community to strengthen public safety; and to Enhance…
THE Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Jasper Anisi, has cleared the air surrounding the confusion by some West Kwara’ae Constituency voters on the eligibility of a sitting Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) to contest the constituency’s bye-election next week. A sitting MPA in the Malaita Provincial Government (MPG), Iven Tonafalea, is one of the candidates…
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) and the Solomon Island Office of the Auditor General (OAG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Office of the Auditor-General in Honiara on Friday May 19 2023. The MoU sets out areas of cooperation including manners of referrals, follow ups, sharing of information and sharing…
A JOINT rescue operation by the China Medical Team and Cardiologists at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) has saved a Solomon Islands man who suffered a bout of acute heart attack a week ago. The man was discharged on 18th of this month after he had regained his health. The case has prompted a cardiologist…
Finding the Solomon’s best Tuna Fish Dish is a focus of Tuna Bites, a live cooking competition that will take place on Friday 26th May at the Coral Sea Resort from 4pm. All Solomon Islanders who love to cook are invited to participate by entering the Fusion or Traditional categories and creating a dish that…
Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare leaves today (Sunday 21st May) to attend the third Summit of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation, (FIPIC III Summit). The FIPIC is a multinational grouping developed in 2014 for cooperation between India and 14 Pacific Islands nations namely Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of…
Tokyo awaits final report from the International Atomic Energy Agency to proceed with the discharge of nuclear treated water JAPAN is almost certain to go ahead with its plan to dump nuclear treated water from its Fukusima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, its envoy to Solomon Islands Miwa Yoshiaki told Solomon Star in an…
THE matter of the late Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister’s Office Robson Djokovic before the Honiara Magistrate’s Court has been discontinued. This was after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) entered a Nolle Prosequi (to no longer prosecute) to discontinue with the matter against him after he died recently. Deputy…