Youths engaged under the Gizo Youth@Work branch are kicking off a two weeks community service work to tidy up Gizo town, commencing last Wednesday. The two week campaign is mainly to engage all the youths in doing community work service around the communities in Gizo. It is also to ensure the skills and the effort…
Intending Candidates are reminded that the payment of Nomination Fees ($5000) will be made at the constituency level with returning officers. Therefore, it is safe to use or pay in cash and not cheque, the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission has stated. SIEC added that if an intending candidate pay up using a cheque and it…
ABC: Leaders of the Free West Papua movement have met in the PNG capital Port Moresby to stress their commitment to war against Indonesia. The group’s chairman Jeffrey Bomanak delivered a statement at a West Papua Freedom Conference, saying the fight wouldn’t end until Indonesia agrees to meet them peacefully to discuss independence for the…
Coordinator of the Malaita province Community Lead Total Sanitation (CLTS), Tony Wale says the program has positively rolled out smoothly in the province. He told Sunday Star that a total of 28 communities from ward 7, 8 and 9 in Malaita have positively engaged in the project,since its establishment in2016. Wale explained that at this…
Journalists from the mainstream media in the country have completed their two days refresher election training in Honiara, Saturday. The training was organised by the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) together with the Media Association of Solomon islands (MASI). It is for local journalist to refresh themselves on their roles in election reporting, as the…
Vendors want Central market extended With the over crowdedness currently faced at the Honiara Central Market, market vendors have called on the Honiara City Council (HCC) to consider an expansion to the current facility. A group of vendors spoken to yesterday say they no longer enjoyed selling their produces at the market venue, as…
THE Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) are currently advertising internally for officers to fill up positions ranging from Sergeant to Assistant Commissioner within the Force. “The call for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) in the positions started mid-December 2018 and will close on 15 February 2019,” says Deputy Director RSIPF-HR, Inspector Flotilda Sabino. She…
Threaten to stop work starting Feb 27 NURSES across the country will go on strike starting February 27 if the government continues to ignore allowances it promised to pay the nurses. This followed a 28-day strike notice the Solomon Islands Nurses Association (SINA) issued on Wednesday this week, which will lapse on February 26. SINA…
PERMANENT Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, Ethel Sigimanu says that our Intellectual property (IP) laws are still laws of England. She was speaking during the opening of the building a national copyright system for Solomon Islands consultation meeting in Honiara, early this week. Our government has done some groundwork on IP…
MAJORITY of direct employees from the reigning Malaita provincial government have lost trust and hope to the current regime, under care-taker Premier Peter Channel Ramohia. This was after employees experienced the lack of support, communication and update of workers salary payments. A senior employee of the Malaita provincial government expressed that most of them are…