A PASSENGER who traveled back on the first repatriation from Honiara to Western Province has thanked the Repatriation Local Organization Committee (LOC) for the effort in organizing the trip. The trip left Honiara on Tuesday night and arrived in Gizo on Wednesday night. Speaking to Solomon Star Gizo yesterday, Paul Nason, who is also a…
Fake acquisition case returns to court, March 31 THE case of a private acquisition officer accused of falsifying documents produced to the Ministry of Lands regarding a land acquired for mining at Rennell, Renbel Province will return to court, March 31. This is for a trial date to be set by Principal Magistrate Tearo…
THE Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) National Traffic Department has conducted an operation following the increasing traffic accident during the State of Public Emergency period on Tuesday 1 March 2022. Supervising Director Inspector Hugo Maelasi explained the purpose of this operation is to curb the ongoing drink drive behaviors and those unlicensed vehicles on…
United Arab Emirates (UAE) national Mr Ahmed Tarak Al Mansouri from the Emirate of Abu Dhabi visited the Solomon Islands Pavilion for the first time Thursday this week and was attracted to the various handicrafts on display. After a brief introduction including the history of how the Solomon Islands was named, Mr Al Mansouri decided…
The Solomon Islands High Commission in Port Moresby in collaboration with the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC), this morning facilitated the repatriation of nine (9) Solomon Islands nationals from Port Moresby on a Papua New Guinea Government charter Air Niugini flight to Honiara. The nationals consisted of tertiary students and their dependents. They were…
WOODFORD International School continues to offer education to its students despite the community transmission of COVID-19. A statement from the school today (Friday 4th March) said when community transmission of COVID-19 was announced a week before 2022 school year began and schools were advised to close indefinitely, Woodford teachers worked to ensure students continued their…
Premier Suidani welcomes ‘reconciliation call’ with open arms MALAITA Province needs you and so be it, says the Malaita Provincial Premier Daniel Suidani in response to a call by Ward 15 Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Edward Misite’e. Premier Suidani is responding to a call by the MPA for a reconciliation with the MARA…
ROYAL Solomon Islands Police Vessel (RSIPV) Gizo has transported nine survivors who are natives of Dawa Island, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), from South West of Rennel Island to Honiara after they were found drifting at sea and rescued by a Taiwanese fishing boat on 24 February 2022. Director Police Maritime of the RSIPF Superintendent…
On Tuesday 2nd of March, the Minister for Communication and Aviation, the Hon. Peter Shanel Agovaka and Australia’s Head of the Office of the Pacific Ewen McDonald exchanged signed copies of a funding arrangement worth SBD37.6 million (AUD6.5 million) for six new telecommunications towers to be built this year. The support for the towers was…
Former govt workers’ question policy approach, as 900+ unvaxed teachers still paid in full A GROUP of unvaccinated government workers who were ‘self-terminated’ recently, for not getting their jabs have questioned the government on how the No Jab, No Job Policy works. The former government employees were amongst the 222 Public Officers that decided not…