Gov’t official confirms move to open new diplomatic missions in India and UAE as Honiara pushes forward with its Look North policy SOLOMON Islands is opening new diplomatic missions in India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in what is clearly the nation’s new push in the Look North policy. Foreign Affairs and External Trade…
THE Malaita New Government for Fundamental Redirection Government (MNGFR) under the leadership of Premier, Martin Fini, has held its first dialogue with the National Government and a number of international donor partners in Honiara last week. Premier Fini, in his 2023-2024 Budget Speech on the floor of the Malaita Provincial Assembly on Tuesday, announced that…
Remains of fallen US Marines are set to be taken home to their families almost 80 years after the Guadalcanal Campaign following a repatriation ceremony at the Skyline US War Memorial yesterday THE remains of five United States (US) Marines will return home to their families after being buried at Gilbert Camp in East Honiara…
A MAJOR clean-up is set to go ahead in the Western Provincial capital, Gizo, today. This is to prepare for the four-day premiers’ workshop next week. The township is all excited and gearing up for the event that will bring together the country’s provincial leaders for the first time after the COVID-19 pandemic. All premiers…
The Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (OPMC) will be convening a one-week meeting on the draft Federal Constitution for Provincial Premiers in Gizo, Western Province, from 3-6 April 2023. The meeting is to present the Draft Federal Constitution to the Premiers and explain its features, challenges, and implications, and to seek their views…
The High Court sentences a man to six years imprisonment for 2016 White River playing field stabbing incident which left another man dead THE man who caused the death of another man at the White River playing field, West Honiara, in 2016 by stabbing him with a knife has been sentenced to six years in…
MALAITA Provincial Finance Minister, Randol Sifoni, has called on all leaders in the Malaita Provincial Assembly to work together to improve the provincial revenue collection. Mr Sifoni made the call when delivering his 2023-24 budget speech on the floor of the assembly on Tuesday. He said the Provincial Government needs all leaders to assist the…
FIVE of the students from Vanuatu who recently arrived in the country to undertake nursing studies are with the Seventh-day Adventist-owned Atoifi Nursing College in East Kwaio, Malaita Province. The five students who arrived in the country earlier this month have settled down at the college. They were accompanied to Atoifi by a Solomon Islands…
OPPOSITION Leader Hon Matthew Wale has slammed the Government’s ongoing excuse that the current drug shortage in the country is ‘cyclical’. In a statement today, Hon Wale said his office has received information from health authorities around the provinces that there are currently a serious drug shortage situation around the country. Following reports of drug…
THE Ministry of Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening (MPGIS) has clarified recent media complaints by members of the Western Provincial Assembly about their accommodation allowances during the initial formation of the Western Provincial Executive Government early this year. In a statement yesterday, Permanent Secretary Stanley Dick Pirione said the allowances were paid through their individual…