THE Honiara City Council (HCC) Lord Mayor, Eddie Siapu and his delegation arrived back in the country following a one-week study tour to the Christchurch City Council in New Zealand. The delegation arrived back in Honiara last Saturday. The one-week study tour was purposely designed to strengthen the governance, administration and operations of HCC. “Pacific…
MANY schools in North Malaita are yet to start classes for this academic year despite the fact that this now the third week of schooling for schools nationwide. Information reaching Solomon Star Auki said schools in the Baegu-Asifola Constituency is lagging behind in the resumption of classes, a worrying sign for students and parents alike.…
The Solomon Islands government has welcomed the visit of the Vice-chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and members of his delegation to the country. The acknowledgement of the visit was made during a reception hosted by the People’s Republic of China’s Embassy in Honiara on Monday (21 February 2023).…
AFTER weeks of hard work and construction the much anticipated concrete road at Tophill in the Western Provincial capital Gizo has been completed and is now fully utilized by road users. Work completed last week much to the excitement of residents living at Tophill. Construction started in early January thanks to the CAUSE Project. A…
The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) boosted its capabilities with a new forensic autopsy laboratory with the assistance from People’s Republic of China (PRC) on 16 February 2023 at National Referral Hospital (NRH). The forensic autopsy laboratory program is worth two million Solomon dollars including the equipment worth 1.4 million SBD and the infrastructure…
The Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the Solomon Islands vows to continue to work collaboratively with the government to faithfully serve this nation. His Excellency, Archbishop (Apostolic Nuncio) Fremin Emilio Sosa Rodriguez passed on the assurance to the honourable Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare, MP, recently. “We mutually work with the Government for…
TRAINING of laboratory technicians from Choiseul and Temotu provinces has started last week in preparation for new laboratories which are proposed for their provincial hospitals. The laboratory staff from Lata and Taro hospitals few to Munda, Western Province to join their colleagues at Helena Goldie Hospital for the training which is provided under Australia’s laboratory…
HELENA Goldie Hospital in Western Province has officially launched and opened its new SBD$1million prefabricated biomedical laboratory last week. The laboratory is funded and delivered by Australia and is fully equipped with associated reagents, furniture and fittings including a GeneXpert machine to perform COVID-19 tests, haematology, a biochemistry analyser, an autoclave machine, microscopes, centrifuge, blood…
It’s almost three weeks after a flooded water cut off part of a road at Anonakinaki area in West Kwaio Malaita province and yet the government is still to take immediate action to fix the road condition. The situation has become a center of frustration to the public particularly the transport operators and people in…
SIX out of 14 businesses engaged by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) to provide goods and services were not registered. This was uncovered in the latest Audit Report carried out in the three key government ministries, MHS, Ministry of Infrastructure and Development and National Disaster Management Officer under the Ministry of Environment,…