SPC: Sustainable Energy is one of the six multi-stakeholder Partnership Dialogues being held during this week’s Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Samoa. Central to the Sustainable Energy debate is use of renewable energy technologies to reduce SIDS reliance on fossil fuels, with their high cost and damaging environmental impacts. “Lack…
SOLOMON Water is emerging from its dark days, cleared its huge debts, and now operating profitably. General Manager Richard Austin revealed this on Wednesday when Solomon Water took delivery of the $150 million water supply improvement project for Honiara and Auki, from the Japanese Government. Mr Austin said the organisation’s current financial situation is stable…
JAPAN on Wednesday handed over the $150 million water supply improvement project for Honiara and Auki to Solomon Water. The project provided: Four borefields: Tasahe, Titinge, Skyline and Borderline – each fed by 4 boreholes. Four high lift pumping stations Six treated water storage reservoirs (at Tasahe, Titinge, Skyline, Borderline, Panatina and West Kola’a) A…
FORMER Prime Minister and MP for North East Choiseul, Manasseh Sogavare says a vast majority of Solomon Islanders do not have a clue what the roles of RAMSI are since the mission’s arrival in 2003. Mr Sogavare highlighted this in Parliament on Wedneday during the opening of the debate on an Independent Report on RAMSI.…
The number of Measles cases is on the rise with more than 500 cases recorded so far in Honiara, Guadalcanal, Malaita and other provinces, health authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Last week two children lost their lives as a result of the outbreak. As part of curbing the spread, the Ministry of Health and World Health…
POLICE have successfully retrieved the boat, believed to have gone missing between Gizo and Choiseul last month. The ray boat, which had in it seven passengers, went missing on its way to Choiseul with only two survivors successfully rescued, a corpse believed to be the driver of the boat (found two weeks after the incident)…
A JUDGE has ordered the lawyer representing a murder accused to provide his sick leave to the court Wednesday. This was after the court was told the lawyer was unable to attend court on Tuesday for the start of the defence case. The defence case was scheduled to start on Monday before presiding judge Francis…
COASTAL freighter, MV Kosco was reported held up at Ringi in the Western Province on Monday night by relatives of a man who was claimed to have fallen over board and is yet to be found. However, latest reports from Gizo last night say the vessel was released late on Tuesday and allowed to continue…
THE five-week long political impasse that has got many people questioning who is the legitimate premier for Renbel province continues with Johnston Timothy calling on Premier Lence Tango to step down. Mr Johnston was elected recently as the new premier of Renbel having had the majority of assembly members over ousted Premier Lence Tango. However,…
TWENTY-TWO recently graduated medical students are still waiting for flight arrangements to return home from Cuba. According to reports reaching the Solomon Star, the students are waiting on the Ministry of Education to arrange and confirm their return flights. The students graduated in July in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo and…