Uni students’ plea for help

STUDENTS studying at the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) under self-sponsorship are appealing for financial support towards salvaging them from the financial constraints they are currently facing at the moment. According to the student’s task-force chairman Dickson Koke, the appeal is made to the general public, business houses, Non-Government Organizations, and other stakeholders. “Your support…

Ngiumoana denies quotes

PROVINCIAL Secretary of Renbel Rubin Ngiumoana has denied quotes attributed to him in yesterday’s paper. He said the quotes from the article which appeared on page 2 with the title “Premier is not biased” was not his actual words. “I never mention those words that were attributed to me and I have no idea why…

Gov’t appoints new PSs

THE Government, through the Public Service Commission, has appointed new Permanent Secretaries to the Ministry of National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace, Ministry of Communication and Aviation, Ministry of Infrastructure Development, and the Ministry of Mines Energy and Rural Electrification. They are:     – Justus Gaeti  Denni as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of National Unity…

Government sells APID logs

THE Government has gone ahead to sell logs felled illegally by Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID) at its controversial operation in west Rennell. The action follows a seizure notice the Ministry of Forestry and Research served on APID on 24 September 2015, threatening confiscations by the Crown of more than 25,000 cubic metres of round…

Police boss clarify delay

Commissioner of Police, Frank Prendergast has clarified why fire trucks were delayed to attend to a building burnt to ground at Chinatown last weekend. Vuvula poultry, a two storey building near the old Mataniko Bailey Bridge at Chinatown was razed to the ground after attempts by firefighters to quell the blaze. Commissioner Prendergast said, it…

Ramohia to meet Honiara-based Malaitans

Malaita provincial premier Peter Chanel Ramohia will have an informal meeting with all Honiara-based Malaitans this evening. The meeting will be held at the Multipurpose Hall starting 5pm till late. The Malaita premier who is a regular contributor on Facebook and has a good public relationship with the public will address all Honiara Malaitans as…

Diabetes leads to blindness

AN estimated 13.5% of the country’s population who are believed to live with diabetes are at risk of developing blindness, says the Director of the Eye Department, Dr Claude Posala. Dr Claude said it is vital to do early eye screening with diabetes patients for the sole reason of early detection of sight threatening complications.…

Overseas medical team on a mission

A MEDICAL team from Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States is currently in Honiara providing medical support to newly graduated doctors from Cuba at the same time conduct health services. In response to the invitation extended by Ambassador Victor Te-Sun Yu – The Embassy of the ROC (Taiwan), the Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatric Emergency…

South Korea to support PIC at COP21

SENIOR officials of the governments of the Republic of Korea and fourteen Pacific island countries reaffirmed cooperation to achieve a legally binding agreement at the international climate change talks at COP 21 in Paris later this year. “Pacific island states are some of the most vulnerable to climate change.  The world must give special consideration…