WITH less than a week before the country goes into poll, Auki, Malaita Province has witnessed mass arrival of voters and supporters flooding in from Honiara on ships. Voters started arriving in huge numbers since last week. Over the past days Auki has witnessed ships being loaded with people most of the voters and supporters…
WEDNESDAY next week – 19th November has been declared a public holiday due to the election. Caretaker Minister for Home Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Manasseh Maelanga has declared. A statement from the Electoral Commission said, the public holiday will not cover the several days that some people may need in order to vote in…
The Political Parties Commission says three political parties have fielded over 30 candidates to contest the November 19 National General Elections. They are the United Democratic Party, the People’s Alliance Party and the National Transformation Party of Solomon Islands. Twelve political parties have registered to contest the seats in the 50-member National Parliament. Meanwhile, the…
The President of the Youth Own Urban-Rural Party, Jonathan Zama is appealing for the support of youth voters in the November 19th National Elections. He said youths of both genders should support his party because it’s focus is based mainly on empowering them to take active part in advancing the national economy and ensuring a…
SPC: Pacific Island leaders will gather in Noumea, New Caledonia, on Monday (17 November 2014) to discuss critical issues linked to climate change with the visiting President of the Republic of France, François Hollande. Initiated by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the High-Level Dialogue on Climate Change will give Pacific leaders a platform…
TWO hundred and seventy-four (274) intending candidates have been nominated to contest the 33 seats for the Malaita provincial assembly next month. Returning Officer for MalaitaProvince Thomas Puahanikeni confirmed this after nominations closed at 4pmyesterday. He said that total number is for the whole province. Mr Puahanikeni revealed that list of provincial candidates and their…
About 160 candidates have been nominated to contest the 21 seats of the Guadalcanal Provincial (GP) Assembly election on 10th December. At the close of nominations 4.30pm yesterday, Returning Officer, Charles Sisimia, confirmed that out of 198 forms being issued 160 nominations were received at the close of nomination. Out of the 160 candidates, 150…
COMMONWEALTH Observer Group warns members in the community to give free access to candidates to do their campaigning in their respective constituencies. This came after reports that former Members of Parliament (MP) were chased and banned from campaigning in certain communities around the country ahead of the polling day on November 19. Chairman of the…
OUTCOME of today’s High Court decision on the case challenging the constitutionality of the Political Parties Integrity Act (PPIA) will not affect the national general elections. Attorney General Billy Titiulu made the comments in an interview with the Solomon Star on Wednesday. Mr Titiulu said whatever the outcome may be, it will not affect the…
THE GOVERNMENT, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade says that there is no ‘break down’ of talks between the Governments of Fiji and Solomon Islands over the current airlines impasse. This follows media report by this paper on Wednesday and in the Island Sun on Friday. In a statement yesterday, the Ministry…