The Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) boosted its capabilities with a new forensic autopsy laboratory with the assistance from People’s Republic of China (PRC) on 16 February 2023 at National Referral Hospital (NRH). The forensic autopsy laboratory program is worth two million Solomon dollars including the equipment worth 1.4 million SBD and the infrastructure…
The Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the Solomon Islands vows to continue to work collaboratively with the government to faithfully serve this nation. His Excellency, Archbishop (Apostolic Nuncio) Fremin Emilio Sosa Rodriguez passed on the assurance to the honourable Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare, MP, recently. “We mutually work with the Government for…
TRAINING of laboratory technicians from Choiseul and Temotu provinces has started last week in preparation for new laboratories which are proposed for their provincial hospitals. The laboratory staff from Lata and Taro hospitals few to Munda, Western Province to join their colleagues at Helena Goldie Hospital for the training which is provided under Australia’s laboratory…
HELENA Goldie Hospital in Western Province has officially launched and opened its new SBD$1million prefabricated biomedical laboratory last week. The laboratory is funded and delivered by Australia and is fully equipped with associated reagents, furniture and fittings including a GeneXpert machine to perform COVID-19 tests, haematology, a biochemistry analyser, an autoclave machine, microscopes, centrifuge, blood…
It’s almost three weeks after a flooded water cut off part of a road at Anonakinaki area in West Kwaio Malaita province and yet the government is still to take immediate action to fix the road condition. The situation has become a center of frustration to the public particularly the transport operators and people in…
SIX out of 14 businesses engaged by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) to provide goods and services were not registered. This was uncovered in the latest Audit Report carried out in the three key government ministries, MHS, Ministry of Infrastructure and Development and National Disaster Management Officer under the Ministry of Environment,…
GHABIHI villagers in Rarumana, Western Province, are searching for information in relation to damages done to their traditional war canoe known as tomoko (kolodomu) last week. Reports reaching Solomon Star Gizo said on Friday last week a group of men armed with bush knives and axes went to Ghabihi Village following an argument with some…
The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) has met with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission team representative on Friday 17th February 2023 in Honiara. The meeting was requested by IMF purposely to provide them with updates on the implementation of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and the delivery of government services to local communities through…
MEMBER of Parliament for West New Georgia Vona Vona Hon Silas Tausinga has denied that his constituency received any $200,000 for machinery equipment. Hon Tausinga made the clarification following a list containing names of MPs was circulated on social media, which misleadingly claimed West New Georgia Vona Vona as one of the recipients. “To set…
Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare, MP, briefly met his Papua New Guinea counterpart, Prime Minister Hon. James Marape at the Honiara International Airport this afternoon. Prime Minister James Marape was on his way to Fiji, transiting through Honiara. Prime Ministers Sogavare and Marape used the brief meeting to update each other on policy directions…