Cabinet urged to upgrade fundings to ‘reasonable levels’ PREMIER of Guadalcanal Province says provincial governments need more support to perform up to the required standard. Premier Anthony Veke said all the premiers are planning to meet with the Prime Minister to discuss pressing issues facing the provincial governments, especially manpower which is critically affecting the provinces’ performances. He announced that the recent premiers’ conference had suggested for Cabinet to increase grants to a reasonable level that would allow provinces to directly recruit specialists, whose capacities can be expanded through the Provincial Government Strengthening Programme (PGSP) phase 2. Premier Veke
CASE against a woman charged for stealing more than SBD20, 000.00 from the Solomon Islands Government will appear again in court today. This is for the schedule of a new
AUSTRALIA has voiced their concern over the treatment made on applications from Australian mining companies in the Solomon Islands. Australian Assistant Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Hon Keith Pitt
THE cost’s to ordinary taxpayers in maintaining the Solomon Islands High Commission office in London by the Sogavare led Grand Coalition for Change government (DCCG) is proving burdensome and financially
AUSTRALIA is reportedly putting pressure on the Solomon Islands Government to withdraw the undersea cable Project Honiara awarded to China’s telco giant, Huawei. The Government and the Company signed a
A concerned voter of Baegu/Asifola constituency has called on responsible authorities to free their member of parliament under the Members of Parliament Immunity action made by the Prime Minister. Mr
IT has surfaced that overseas scholarships for next year, 2018 will perhaps be reduced. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) Permanent Secretary highlighted this during last week’s
THE Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) is calling on the general public to immediately report fake money found circulating in the public. The Bank made the statement following reports
..Sogavare reportedly forced to sack two ministers under internal pressure TWO senior government ministers stand to lose their portfolios as Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare finally relented under Party pressure
THE Police Commissioner has confirmed that cause of death in relation to the dead corpse found at the Mataniko River last week was medically related. Mr Matthew Varley revealed this
THE Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) has rebutted the front page article, headlined Students to defer studies, of Island Sun Newspaper, Thursday 20 July 2017, as misleading,
