OF all passenger shipping vessels servicing Malaita Province, MV Taimareho is the first passenger shipping vessel to have confirmed its resumption of service along the Honiara-Auki route. Many Malaitans who have been stranded in Honiara for the past two months since the declaration of covid-19 community transmission in the country which leads to the restriction…
Health and Medical Services Minister, Dr. Culwick Togamana has warned people not to neglect public safety measures regardless of the slowdown in covid-19 cases in Honiara and some parts of the country. Dr Togamana observed a worrying tendency, especially, in Honiara where people obviously ignored putting on face masks and observing social distancing, in common…
WESTERN Provincial Government (WPG) is planning on to request the Government to gazette an order to ensure wearing of masks becomes mandatory in the province. This was revealed by the Western Provincial Disaster Committee (PDC) Chairman Jeffrey Wickham. This proposal was agreed on after a meeting was held between the PDC and Provincial Health Emergency…
THE case of a couple accused of collaborating to rape a girl in Ngella, Central Islands Province will be brought again before the High Court on March 21 for mention. George Solopoto and his wife Elizabeth Koka are facing the charge of compelled sexual intercourse. A trial was already conducted before Justice Leonard Maina and…
THE Government’s ‘No Jab, No Job’ Policy is beginning to affect service delivery in some rural parts of Malaita province. Reports reaching the Solomon Star said few health workers manning rural health centres in the province who are still unvaccinated are now on half salary. The situation has forced these affected health workers to scale…
A MAN who claimed he used a spear to kill the deceased and then later cut off his head because he was provoked has been acquitted at the High Court, Tuesday. Bruno Sapa had gone through a trial last year for one count of murder. Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer in his judgment yesterday said…
Locals want access to services, food, calls for SI-PNG border to open SEVERAL communities in Shortland in the far end of Western Province have staged a peaceful protest on Monday over lack of access to services, lack of food and the need to reopen the border. Reports reaching the paper said the protest came about…
The COVID 19 Oversight Committee is currently reviewing the ‘School Reopening Guideline’ with the target to slowly reopen schools by April. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Services to draft the Guidelines which was submitted to the Oversight Committee last week. The Oversight Committee…
PAPUA New Guinea (PNG) Dr Miane Asapo has paid an administrative penalty fee of $10,000 for his spouse and himself before returning to PNG on Friday 4th March 2022. The court has acquitted Dr Asapo of his case against illegal border crossing during the lock down period when covid_19 Emergency law are enforced. The amount…
A MAN who confesses to sexually abusing his six year-old grand-niece in 2019 in north Guadalcanal has been sentenced to six years in prison. Justice Maelyn Bird delivered the sentence on Monday in the High Court. The accused who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim had pleaded guilty to one count…