THOUSANDS of people living in Honiara concluded their Easter celebration with muscle flexing when they hit the road for the annual Easter fun run, Monday morning. The annual Easter Monday occasion attracted children, youths, women, leaders, expats, locals, visiting friends and families, all dressed in their respective uniforms to participate. The route started at Lawson…
RURAL Development and Infrastructure are to be the prized items in the Democratic Coalition for Change (DCC) Government’s 2015 Budget this year. Finance and Treasury Minister, Snyder Rini, will bring down the $4.1 billion budget, the nation’s historic budget, when the 10th Parliament resumes later this morning. Dubbed the People’s Budget, the DCC Government, led…
A MAN has been fined $150 on Wednesday in the Honiara Magistrates’ Court after he confessed to having in his possession paper rolls and dried top of marijuana plant. Junior Fiduka, 23, pleaded guilty to the charge without a lawyer. He admitted having in his possession 24 dried top of marijuana plants and five paper…
A PRE-TRIAL conference will be held on 24 April on the case of the Member of Parliament for East Guadalcanal Bradley Tovosia and former Guadalcanal Premier Anthony Veke. The pre-trial date was fixed yesterday after Tovosia and Veke entered not guilty pleas to the amended charges of abuse of office and attempted abuse of office…
A YOUNG man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife with a scissors last year at GPPOL 2, East Guadalcanal,has been sentenced to one and a half year in jail, Wednesday. Junior Taro, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful wounding and was sentenced by Principal Magistrate Fatima Taeburi.Following an argument with his wife…
PERMANENT Secretary (PS) for the Ministry of Lands, Housing & Survey Stanley Wale has reminded the public to be careful of conmen. He said certain conmen are going around with false land title documents and deceiving people to pay cash for their land title transfer. Speaking during the Public Accounts Committee hearing, Mr Wale said…
THE Renbel non-executive bench has maintained the legality of the budget that was passed by the executive in Tigoa, last Saturday, needs to be tested. The executive passed the Rennell and Bellona Appropriation Ordinance 2015-2016 without non-executive members bypassing the Public Accounts Committee. The budget, which is about $5 million, is by far the province’s…
HONIARA City Council (HCC) Mataniko dental clinic will open up for services to the public in Honiara next week. This was revealed by HCC Health Director Harvest Miabule. Speaking to the Solomon Star yesterday, Mr Miabule said, the clinic will open next Wednesday offering dental services. “At the moment, our works departments are doing final…
THE Mataniko dental clinic will have 16 dentists working to provide services to the public. The clinic will start its operation next Wednesday. HCC Health Director, Harvest Miabule said, this clinic will be equipped with more chairs and dentists to cater for the demand of dental services. Currently Kukum dental clinic is the only one…
The Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of states whose Secretariat is based in Brussels, Belgium has this week responded to the cyclone Pam relief appeal by the government of Vanuatu by sending a humanitarian Mission to Vanuatu. The objective of the ACP Humanitarian Mission to Vanuatu was to meet with government leaders; relevant authorities,…