Journalists from the mainstream media in the country have completed their two days refresher election training in Honiara, Saturday. The training was organised by the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) together with the Media Association of Solomon islands (MASI). It is for local journalist to refresh themselves on their roles in election reporting, as the…
Vendors want Central market extended With the over crowdedness currently faced at the Honiara Central Market, market vendors have called on the Honiara City Council (HCC) to consider an expansion to the current facility. A group of vendors spoken to yesterday say they no longer enjoyed selling their produces at the market venue, as…
THE Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) are currently advertising internally for officers to fill up positions ranging from Sergeant to Assistant Commissioner within the Force. “The call for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) in the positions started mid-December 2018 and will close on 15 February 2019,” says Deputy Director RSIPF-HR, Inspector Flotilda Sabino. She…
Threaten to stop work starting Feb 27 NURSES across the country will go on strike starting February 27 if the government continues to ignore allowances it promised to pay the nurses. This followed a 28-day strike notice the Solomon Islands Nurses Association (SINA) issued on Wednesday this week, which will lapse on February 26. SINA…
PERMANENT Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, Ethel Sigimanu says that our Intellectual property (IP) laws are still laws of England. She was speaking during the opening of the building a national copyright system for Solomon Islands consultation meeting in Honiara, early this week. Our government has done some groundwork on IP…
MAJORITY of direct employees from the reigning Malaita provincial government have lost trust and hope to the current regime, under care-taker Premier Peter Channel Ramohia. This was after employees experienced the lack of support, communication and update of workers salary payments. A senior employee of the Malaita provincial government expressed that most of them are…
By ANDREW FANASIA THE acting Commissioner of Lands Alan McNeil has begun the process of resuming state land in the He nderson area that were illegally allocated to an Asian businesswoman. McNeil announced this in a published notice printed in the Solomon Star today. He said the Asian developer, Mindi Zhu, has been given a…
THE matter of the outgoing Member of Parliament (MP) for Savo/Russell, Dickson Mua has been adjourned to Thursday next week. This was after the completion of the evidence of two prosecution witnesses who were recalled to the witness box, Thursday. Former Constituency Development Officer (CDO), Richard Duva, and former Project Officer, Dennis Akorae were grilled…
POLICE in Honiara have arrested 39 vehicle drivers following a traffic operation targeting drink driving from 23-30 January 2019. Ten drivers were arrested for careless driving, nine for driving an unlicensed motor vehicle, 14 for driving with the presence of alcohol in a person’s blood, one for driving without a driver’s license, one for driving…
NPF to sell shares in Our Telekom to Fijian firm By ANDREW FANASIA THE National Provident Fund (NPF) has confirmed holding talks with Fiji’s biggest telecommunications company to sell part of its shares in Solomon Telekom to them. NPF general manager Mike Wate confirmed this in response to enquiries the Solomon Star made to his…