The National Disaster Council (NDC) in its efforts to support the Temotu Provincial Response to the twin weather systems, the Planning Function Team within the National Emergency Operation Center (NEOC) has developed a Response Plan of action. The document captures a plan of actions to be taken for the deployment of resources in responding to…
A five-day Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) training course was conducted at Central Fire Station in Honiara recently. The course was attended by 18 participants from the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), Airport Fire, and Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF)’s Fire Rescue. The Course was facilitated by a representative from Fire Rescue New South…
A 25-year-old motocross rider died at the National Referral Hospital early this morning from injuries sustained when his motor bike hit a car at Kukum on Sunday. According to eye-witnesses, the accident happened around 1pm at the junction into Kukum Police Station. They said the bike was travelling at high speed on the highway when…
THREE families who sought immunization for their newly born babies were lucky to escape after strong wind and waves smashed the makeshift house, they took shelter in at Lokuloku in Munda, Western province. A strong wind and waves smashed the makeshift house just after they move out their belongings. They were recently discharged from the Helena…
Thirteen-year-old Rosemary Leah Kelesiwasi who is being diagnosed with a brain tumor is now in Fiji for medical attention. Ms Kelesiwasi from ‘Suava’ in Lau and ‘Gwaidadai’ in Kwara’ae, Malaita Province traveled on Friday with her parents and a doctor, Dr Florence Fiuramo. The trip was made possible following weeks of fundraising and support from…
Former Premier of Central Province Stanley Manetiva has questioned the Central Provincial Government (CPG) for engaging a person with a police record to collect revenue from business owners in the province. Manetiva told Solomon Star that a person who has a police record was paid daily subsistence allowances and accommodation while in Honiara where he’s…
INTERNATIONAL flight IE703 due to travel to Nadi, Port Vila to pick up nursing students from Vanuatu was cancelled due to cyclone. That flight was to pick up around 70 students from Vanuatu to commence their study at the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) School of Nursing. The school of Nursing is one of the…
Closing submissions for Botanical Garden death Monday CLOSING submissions will be made on the matter of the man charged for the death of another man at the Botanical Garden in 2020, Monday. Ruben Jayrick Hitu faces one count of manslaughter. Justice Maelyn Bird will hear the closing submissions at 1.30pm. Hitu’s co-accused, Tatasi Fati Forau,…
THE first ever major clean-up of Honiara as part of the “Safe and Green Games SOLPG23” in preparation for the city’s hosting of the premier regional sporting event later this year was successfully carried out from Henderson to White River, Saturday. The “Safe and Green Games SOLPG23” campaign was launched by Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare…
DID the Ward 20 Member of the Malaita Provincial Assembly (MPA) and Minister of Works and Transport, Jimmy Rerehe, just let the secret out of the bag during a mobile conversation with a nurse that was overhead by another nurse and a priest? In what was supposed to be a confidential mobile conversation between the…