AUSTRALIA’S Minister for Justice Michael Keenan has praised the enduring support of RAMSI and Australia to the Solomon Islands’ Law and Justice sector over the past 10 years. The acknowledgement was made on the Justice Minister’s arrival in Honiara yesterday. Australia has worked closely with the national government to strengthen its justice institutions since 2003,…
GOVERNMENT has lifted the immigration ban it imposed on Gold Ridge Mining Limited (GRML) expatriate workers, allowing the first 10 to return last week. Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo initiated the ban after GRML closed its Gold Ridge operation in central Guadalcanal in the wake of the April 3 flash flood and sent all its…
THE Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) says it is functioning effectively and has rejected claims that ‘the country does not have an Electoral Commission’. In yesterday’s Island Sun newspaper, freelance writer Alfred Sasako claimed that the timetable for the National Election is in doubt because there are ‘no Commissioners appointed’. A claim the SIEC has…
SOLOMON Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) has challenged the country’s population to show pride in their nation by keeping the Solomon Islands clean. The SIVB’s new ‘Green Team’, led by marketing manager Freda Unusi, started the nationwide drive recently by cleaning a badly blocked drain at the side of the SIVB headquarters, which had been left…
TEMOTU premier Fr Brown Beu strongly calls on youths to refrain from drugs and stop acting like arrogant wild men in the province. He made the call at his province’s second appointed day celebrations in Lata, Tuesday. “The positive harnessing of the raw energy in our youth population is of great importance, so great an…
TEMOTU Province is proposing to establish an agriculture trade link with the Republic of Vanuatu. The province has been liaising with the Republic of Vanuatu for trade link in fishing industry, and now they added another – copra. Premier Fr Brown Beu confirmed this in his keynote address on his province’s secondary appointed day celebration…
FOREIGN Affairs minister Clay Forau Soalaoi joined his Pacific Islands Colleagues in Istanbul from June 7-8 to discuss way and means of enhancing cooperation between Turkey and the Pacific’s Small Islands Developing States (SIDS). The talks were held between Pacific Islands foreign ministers and their Turkish counterpart. Solomon Islands has a growing cooperation with Turkey,…
Gov’t urged to cut ties with investor THE Joint Civil Society Groups & Concerned Citizens (JCSG & CC) is calling on Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo and responsible government authorities to immediately terminate all contracts involving Evita Solomon Limited and urgently declare its Executives persona-non-grata in Solomon Islands. The call comes in the light of…
PRIME Minister Lilo and his deputy Manasseh Maelanga silently left Honiara yesterday to their respective provinces, resulting in the cancellation of a planned joint press conference with visiting Australian justice minister Michael Keenan. Mr Lilo travelled out to the Western Province to attend the funeral of the founder of the Christian Fellowship Church (CFC) Sir…
A FORMER police officer will be re-sentenced in the Honiara Magistrate Courts after successfully appealing his sentence. Ubaldo Tiva was sentenced in 2010 for one count of reckless and dangerous driving and careless driving. The court has imposed a total fine of $1,500 in default of two months, twenty days. His driving licence was also…