THE new medical operating theatre at Seghe area health centre in Marovo, Western province has saved many lives since it opened last year. The medical operating theatre opened May last year and doctors travelling down to Marovo have performed multiple operations down there. Called Bishop Wilfred Kurepitu operating theatre, it was funded by the Marovo…
The four core landowning tribes of the proposed Tina River hydro project have all signed the process agreement last Wednesday to consent to government acquire their land for the Tina Hydro development. Their consent marked the end of several months of negotiations between the core land tribes and the government through the Tina River Hydro…
The University of the South Pacific Student Association federal Council has commended the national and Guadalcanal provincial (GP) governments for their assurance and support towards the on the USP fourth campus USP in Doma, North West Guadalcanal. Last week visiting USPSA regional federal council’s chairperson Whitlam Saeni, his deputy Wilfred Luiramo, and the outgoing chairperson…
Parts of West Gizo will be promoted in one of Australian best Sunday newspapers thanks to David May a travel writer and photographer from Australia who is in Gizo to promote tourism in the country. Mr May is being engaged by Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) public relations (PR) officer based in Australia Mike Paker…
The National Coalition for Rural Advancement Government has acknowledged the donors’ help in getting Parliament to finish the Political Parties Integrity Bill in time for the 2014 general elections. The Government’s news magazine, The Nation reports without the general support of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the European Union, Parliament would not have completed…
The Clerk to the Honiara City Council (HCC) Charles Kelly says he will remain with the council as his newly announced posts overseas are only voluntary. Mr Kelly who is president of the Solomon Islands Planned Parenthood Association (SIPPA) has been elected into the regional executive committee for East and South East Asia and the…
A Solomon Islands pilot, Captain Francis Wilikai has lamented the leadership styles of fallen politicians including two late prime ministers. Captain Wilikai who flies the Pacific Air Express, a cargo carrier between Honiara, Port Moresby and Australia laments the leadership of late Prime Ministers, Solomon Mamaloni and Bartholomew Ulufa’alu because they cared more for the…
Special Coordinator of Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), Justine Braithwaite says the limited re-introduction of lethal firearms into the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force is among the major activities in the RAMSI PPF Drawdown Strategy for 2013 – 2017. She said last week the Solomon Islands Government, the RSIPF and RAMSI signed the…
A three day literacy training held at the national library in Honiara ended successfully yesterday. About 20 participants from different schools around Honiara city attended the workshop. The ministry of education and human resource development funded the training with the sum of $22, 901. Speaking to the paper director of national library Margaret Talasasa explained…
The civil society group Maliata Ma’sina Forum (MMF) has reiterated calls to the Prime Minister to quickly announce and fill the post of new police commissioner. The call came following months of wait for the Prime Minister to announce the new police commissioner. A reliable source has told this paper more than five weeks ago…