THE Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) is yet to respond to a request to ease social distancing at schools. Social distancing rule was applied mainly in schools within the emergency zones like in Honiara. After visiting those schools and conducting awareness to school leaders, MEHRD has encouraged schools within the zone to…
Dr. Rodgers: why we should not suspend SOPE quickly By IAN M.KAUKUI THE decision to suspend or extend the State of Public Emergency (SOPE) in the Solomon Islands will have to be made with careful consideration. Secretary to Prime Minister Dr. Jimmy Rodgers made the statement during the weekly talkback show yesterday over the national…
The Correctional Service Solomon Islands (CSSI) Dietetics & Nutrition department is working to improve inmates’ menu and local food suppliers. Dietetics & Nutrition Officer and Dietetics Counseling Officer Ms Stacy Kofela revealed this during a recent presentation to CSSI executive, a statement from CSSI Media Unit said. Ms Kofela explained the standardised menu are formulated…
The MARA government’s bold stand against the logging industry operation in Malaita Province has attracted the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a bilateral United States foreign aid agency. A local representative from MCC Dr. Philip Tagini visited Malaita last week where he met with the Malaita Provincial Premier Daniel Suidani to discuss support Malaita Province could…
THE deadline to submit an application for the Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) will be on the 26th of June 2020 but it is likely to be extended. Chief of Staff at the Prime Minister’s Office, Robson Djokovic made the statement when responding to question whether the government would give ample time for rural populous to…
MORE than 300 locals and expatriates are expected to travel back into the country via the two governments’ sanctioned flights next week. This was revealed on Sundayt by the Secretary to Prime Minister, Dr Jimmy Rogers during the weekly talkback show on the national broadcaster. Dr. Rodgers said that the incoming citizens are mostly from Australia,…
Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at the Gizo Police Station in Western Province have arrested and charged an 18-year-old Form 4 female student at Eleoteve Community High School on Vella la Vella Island in Western Province on 17 June 2020. Initial reports say the accused gave birth to a baby in…
Officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Auki, Malaita Province are investigating the suspicious death of a 25-year-old male person at Kiu Village in West Are’Are on 20 June 2020. Supervising Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Malaita Province, Superintendent William Foufaka says, “Police received a report from a police officer at Kiu Village…
High school girl gives birth, then suffocates baby By TERENCE ZIRUIn Gizo A SIXTEEN-year-old high school student from Vella La Vella, Western Province is under investigation for allegedly suffocating her newborn baby minutes after giving birth inside a school’s ablution block last week. The brutal act which occurred at a boarding high school has…
Prime Minister (PM) Manasseh Sogavare has called on the media to be more responsible and to exercise the required ethics and standards that is expected of them. PM Sogavare made the call during his nation-wide COVID-19 weekly address, Friday. “The media has been quite unacceptable in discharging its duty to the people of this nation. …