Thursday, December 29th, 2016
U-17 friendly today
THE country’s national under-17 boys’ soccer team will play their second friendly match today against visiting Arosi Kings FC at Lawson Tama. Arosi Kings FC from Ward 5 in West Makira are here to help test the national U-17 team who are preparing for the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) U-17 qualifiers in Tahiti February next year. The two sides met on Tuesday for their first of three friendly matches and saw the national U-17 squad defeating the visitors 3-0 win. The U17 national team fielded three separate teams in thatRead More
Copra boom
High Copra price gets farmers flooding in BARIK copra buyers at White River is now flooded with copra producers because it is currently one of the three firm copra buyers in Honiara that are currently buying copra for $5 per kilo. According to the owner of Barik Copra buyers Mr Coleman Togana, this could possibly be the last week for the high price of copra so they are encouraging copra producers to sell their products to them before this Christmas week concludes. The highest copra price per kilo currentlyRead More
PM Sogavare, Ambassador Te-Sun Yu officiate Fakaloloma sanitation project accomplishment
THE people of Funafou and Niuleni artificial islands in the Lau Lagoon in Malaita Province yesterday celebrated a milestone to rural community sanitation development in Solomon Islands as they marked the accomplishment and handing-over of a $3-million sanitation project funded by the Republic of China (Taiwan). The celebration held on Funafou Island, which is only a stone’s throw from Niuleni Island, was officiated by Prime Minister Hon Manasseh Sogavare and the Taiwanese Ambassador to Solomon Islands, His Excellency Victor Te-sun Yu. This project called the Fakaloloma sanitation Project saw theRead More
Christmas sea festival held at Gizo
AS Christmas celebrations were held in most communities around the country, Vorivori village on West Gizo hosted a sea festival to coincide with the annual celebrations. The Vorivori South Sea Evangelical Church (SSEC) hosted the sea festival activities like swimming, diving, canoe race, fishing competition and other sea games played yesterday at the village. The day four of activities was highlighted with sea games and tug of war as everyone took part during the program. Theme for this year Christmas celebration is ‘Christmas against Crime festival’. This is the 6thRead More
RSIPF personnel urged to pursue further study
PATRON of the Police Recruit Course 2016 has urged the 70 newly graduated Police Constables to pursue further studies in their career. Sir Paul Tovua, speaking during the recent graduation ceremony, said that in order to become professional in work one needs to willingly availing one’s self for study. “You have to become a good police officer and my advice is that you must never stop learning throughout your career. “Continue to upgrade your qualification and knowledge as you progress through your career in the Police Force,” he said. SirRead More
A novel approach to combat mosquito-borne diseases and more medical help from Australia
DEAR EDITOR, Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) today, Wednesday, carried a bulletin that New Caledonia’s capital plans to introduce bacteria in a novel approach to combat mosquito-borne diseases. The programme has been developed with Australia’s Monash University and entails releasing mosquitoes with the Wolbachia bacteria. A statement issued by the authorities of Noumea says once the mosquitoes carry these bacteria they can no longer pass on dengue, chikungunya and Zika. It says gradually the bacteria will spread to all the disease-carrying mosquitoes, hoping to eliminate the problem within about fourRead More
A tangible acknowledgement of Taiwan’s support for Solomon Islands rural development
THE Government and People of the Republic of China are active partners with the Government and People of Solomon Islands in the empowerment of Solomon Islands rural dwellers for active participation in economic development through their direct annual $80- million budgetary support for rural development. Through Taiwan’s annual budgetary support people in the rural areas in many parts of the Solomon Islands are now able to own solar-power, low-cost houses and sanitation facilities. Taiwan’s contribution to providing sanitation facilities was fully exemplified, yesterday, when the people of Funafou and NiuleniRead More
Sympathy and practical help to earthquake victims
DEAR EDITOR, in his Christmas message to the nation, the Prime Minister said, “Our hearts go out to the victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Makira, South Malaita and parts of Guadalcanal and the Shortland Islands.” The PM said as an island state the country is vulnerable to extreme weather patterns and other natural disasters, but despite such vulnerability we have been able to effectively cope, He gave credit to the good work of the staff at the disaster management offices at the national and provincial levels andRead More
Crocodile has commercial value: Sandakabatu
THE population of crocodile in the country is wild and becoming dangerous but Chairman of the Bills and Legislation committee, Hon Connelly Sandakabatu, says there is way of controlling them. Mr Sandakabatu said one way of controlling the number of crocodiles is to put them in farms and make money out of them. “We must not afraid to assist our people to look for new opportunities. For instance crocodile farming is an opportunity that we should look into “Not only that but we all know that the population of crocodileRead More
West tourism body strengthened
THE Western Province Tourism Association (WPTA) has re-strengthened its approach to support tourism products in Western province. WPTA President, Ivan Maeke, in an interview with Island Sun, said he wants to see this association come up strong, and calls for operators to work together with governments and stakeholders. “I want to see this association come up strong, every operators in Western province we need to work together with the provincial government, national government and every stakeholder. “Government must play its part to improve our infrastructures such as roads, airports, bridges,Read More