More of SINU’s internal ‘dirty laundry’ keeps coming out GOVERNMENT-sponsored students who owed the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) more than $3 million in meals and accommodation costs in 2020 were issued credit notes, it was revealed this week. The latest revelation was made by the Business Investment & Commercial Services (BICS) Finance Officer, Jimmy…
THE recent security deal signed by the governments of Solomon Islands and China might backfire and create an internal division within the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF), it was revealed. While the DCGA government thinks it has provided all that the country needs when it comes to the country’s so-called internal security by getting…
MALAITA Provincial Premier Daniel Suidani says the national government has failed to attend to people’s grievances which led to the November riot. Speaking during the Malaita Provincial Assembly budget meeting last week, the Malaita Premier is of the view that the national government is being ignorant when it comes to addressing people’s grievances. He said…
CHAIRMAN of the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee and MP for East Are’Are Hon. Peter Kenilorea Jr. is in Strasbourg, France this week to preside over his first face-to-face meetings in his capacity as the President of the Organization of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly…
West Guadalcanal – If you asked the local children about the long line of trees growing next to the coastal road between Takamboru and Horabau on Guadalcanal Island, they might tell you that the trees have always been there. Many of the young people won’t remember that a decade ago, this part of the island…
SPC, Suva, Fiji : This week, nine technical officers from Fiji’s Maritime Affairs Coordinating Committee received specialised software training to map and define the extent of Fiji’s maritime zones, including extended continental shelf areas. The training, funded by the United Kingdom and delivered in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC) under the Pacific Extended Continental Shelf Project, is the first of several…
FORMER Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Small Malaita Hon Rick Houenipwela says the security treaty with China was supposed to be a secretly orchestrated deal. Hon Houenipwela said the secret undertakings on this agreement started way back in 2019 when the Police Minister indicated in Parliament then that ‘if the government had its…
MALAITA Province Minister for Health, Dickson Pola has called on all Malaitans to respect health properties in the province. He stated this after noticing most people have no respect for health facilities in the public. A fortnight ago, the Covid 19 central field centre in Auki was looted and vandalizes by some ignorant and rude…
THE Guadalcanal Provincial Assembly has passed a SBD$32,608,910 budget for its 1st quarter of 2022/2023 financial year, Friday last week. Provincial Minister for Finance and Treasury, Andrew Tahisihaka stated that this year’s budget is prepared against the backdrop of difficult economic situation currently facing the country. “The current state of the local economy is very…
MINISTER of Education and Human Resource says one of the pre-conditions to resume the 2022 academic year is for all teachers and students to get their jab. Lanelle Tanangada reiterated this, Thursday when speaking in Parliament during her contribution to the motion moved by the Prime Minister to approve and extend the State of Public…