The Safe and Green Games Initiative, which will be launched on Friday 3rd March in Honiara will engage a whole of community approach as Honiara looks to beautify itself ahead of the 2023 Pacific Games in November. The approach, according to the joint taskforce including the National Hosting Authority, the Government Services Integrated Committee (GSIC)…
COASTAL communities in Malaita have been hit by usual huge tides last week and the situation triggered concerns amongst the inhabitants about their welfare and future. Reports reaching Solomon Star Auki claimed the gigantic tides have affected the Aoke-Langa coastal communities in the Langa Constituency, Lau-Mbaelelea Constituency, Baegu-Asifola Constituency, Fataleka Constituency, East Malaita Constituency and…
IT appears impossible at this stage for the current Malaita Provincial Government to have a Provincial Public Account Committee (PPC) since it does not have the numbers required to form this important committee. This was according to a report cited by this paper this week. The report has it that the current Malaita Provincial Government…
HUMAN development for the formation of human capital is one of the underlying philosophies of Choiseul Province’s development priorities. That’s according to the Deputy Provincial Secretary of Choiseul Province, Nelson Tanito Kere. He made the statement during the celebration of Choiseul Province’s Second Appointed Day in Gizo, Western Province last Friday. The event was held…
COMMISSIONER of Correctional Service Solomon Islands (CSSI), Mactus Forau, has paid a visit to the Auki Correctional Centre (ACC). The recent visit was strategically to oversee the ACC’s functions, meet with officers, inmates and key provincial stakeholders and to conduct other important CSSI business matters. Speaking during the visit, Commissioner Forau acknowledged the ACC Commandant…
First batch of regional nursing students from Vanuatu due in Honiara today as part of an arrangement between Vanuatu’s Ministry of Health and SINU FIRST lot of regional students from Vanuatu to undergo nursing studies at the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) will arrive today. About 30 of them are expected to arrive this evening.…
OFFICERS of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) at Tulagi in the Central Province have conducted an awareness in relation to crocodile threat in the township after a crocodile attacked a man who went out diving at the seafront of Raiders Rest House. The crocodile attack occurred last Wednesday night. Assistant Commissioner (AC) Crime…
CHIEF Robert Satu, described as the cultural anchor of Fishing Village in Honiara, has died, leaving a vacuum that would be hard to fill. But he died without collecting millions of dollars the government owed him in a High Court Order relating to the export of dolphins several years ago. 72-year-old Satu died at the…
SOLOMON Islands is in ready mode to cooperate further and work together with the Government of the Republic of Fiji as a close neighbor, members of the MSG and the PI Forum and the UN on issues of common and mutual interests bilaterally, regionally, and multilaterally. Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, made the assurance to Fiji’s…
Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, was accorded a guard of honour on his arrival on Thursday night at the Nadi International airport. Prime Minister Sogavare is in Fiji for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Retreat which started yesterday. He was given an official briefing immediately after his arrival. Yesterday the leaders commenced the Special Leaders’ Retreat…