The Management of Auki Market in Malaita have finally put a stop to black-market activities that have been going on within the market premises over the past years. Last week, security officers at the market stopped vendors who attempted to purchase out-right produces from farmers arriving at the market. Their intention was to buy off…
The Solomon Islands Melanesian Arts Festival National Organizing Committee (MAFNOC) has resumed its pre-festival planning process for 2018 this week. Solomon Islands will host the 6th Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival (MACFest) from July 1 to 10 this year on the theme “Past Recollections; Future Connections.” The event is programmed to coincide with the country’s…
Grade four and five students of Aruligo Seventh Day Adventist primary school in North West Guadalcanal will move into their new classrooms as of Monday after taking ownership of their six unit classrooms building on Thursday. The classroom project is funded by the Government of Japan under the grant assistance for grassroots human security projects…
The Police Response Team(PRT) of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is currently conducting an operation in the community of Boneghi in North West Guadalcanal after the alleged sighting of a crocodile in the area. It was alleged a saltwater crocodile was sighted at Boneghi Two Beach which is a popular swimming location for…
UNIVERSITY of the South Pacific (USP) doctoral student Dickson Boboria has stood by his research findings that cyanide was found in sediments downstream of the Gold Ridge mine in central Guadalcanal. And he stated that there is no time to argue, but to deal with the issue. “Let me say this. What I told the…
TENANTS currently occupying the Auki plaza are demanding the Malaita provincial government to settle their repatriation package of $5000 before they vacate the building. This comes after they received a matching-order from Malaita provincial government to vacant the Auki Plaza to allow the Solomon Islands National Provident Fund (SINPF) to take over the building and…
MALAITA’s provincial capital Auki is slowly taking shape with a number infrastructure development underway. This is surely going to facelift the provincial centre and once they are completed. One of the latest developments is a newly built three story complex own by local business man and indigenous business advocator Charles Dausabea. The complex is likely…
Kukum highway is now covered with dust as construction for the main road and repair works continue under the current fine weather. Last week the construction of road was disturbed and delayed due to heavy rain. The heavy rain created a lot of potholes, floods, mud and traffic jam causing a lot of inconveniences to…
A TOTAL of 17 buses being seized early this year by the Honiara City Council (HCC) Law Enforcement Officers for breaching the newly implemented long bus route will face court on Thursday. The buses were impounded for disobeying and operating short bus route instead of the designated long route. HCC’s Head of Law Enforcement Division,…
GOV’T SETTLES SINU DUES By CHARLES KADAMANA THE Government on Tuesday settled $3.7 million in outstanding tuition fees with Solomon Islands National University (SINU). Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Dr Franco Rodie confirmed this on Wednesday ahead of a meeting SINU Students Association is organising today at Kukum campus. Dr…