Thursday, June 1st, 2017
Aust High Commissioner to visit Gizo Youth@work today
AUSTRALIA’S High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands His Excellency, Roderick Brazier will be paying a visit to the Youth@Work Gizo branch this afternoon. This is part of his visit to the Western Province to assess projects and programmes they are funding. Youth@Work Provincial Coordinator, Hika Gonne said he is very happy and looks forward to welcoming Australia’s High Commissioner and team when they visit. “We are all looking forward for his visit and to share our ideas on the current programme we are working on.” Meanwhile, the High Commissioner andRead More
Solomon Islands AFTER RAMSI talk today at SINU
THE Solomon Islands National University today will host a public talk on Solomon Islands after RAMSI. Mr Quinton Devlin, the Special coordinator of RAMSI will be the guest speaker. After 14 years in operations, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) will come to the end on the last day of this Month. Started in in mid-2003, RAMSI was designed with the mandate to restore law and order, to revitalize the economy and to support the reconstruction of critical national institutions. Fifteen member countries of the Pacific Islands ForumRead More
Lauru Peoples Association to host AGM next week
THE Lauru Peoples Association (LPA) has appealed to all Choiseul people living in and around Honiara to gather on Whit Monday 5 June 2017. This came as an announcement made by the association’s caretaker President Shepard Lapo. The LPA will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the stated date and will also go into electing new LPA office bearers. “This meeting has been agreed from our previous LPA Meeting held on the 17 April 2017. “It is because so that I am appealing to all good people of LauruRead More
PM warns nation of financial and health consequences of tobacco
PRIME Minister Hon Manasseh Sogavare yesterday warned the nation of the financially costly and health risks of tobacco. The warning was contained in his keynote address at the 2017 World No Tobacco Day celebration in Honiara yesterday. The event held at the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation Headquarters was broadcasted live by the national broadcaster SIBC. The theme for this year is “Tobacco: A Threat to Development.” The Prime Minister said the theme is a very important call of warning to all Solomon Islanders in light of Solomon Islands status asRead More
PAP reassures commitment to DCCG
‘No Cabinet reshuffle expected’ THE Peoples Alliance Party (PAP) has come again assuring the Prime Minister Hon Manasseh Sogavare of its continued support for his leadership and the Democratic Coalition for Change Government (DCCG). This came about in an official statement by the PAP yesterday following the recent publication of the Party’s President Sir Nathaniel Waena stating that “the People’s Alliance Party has not achieved anything through the Democratic Coalition for Change Government. Sir Nathaniel previously told Island Sun in an interview that “it would be wrong to misleadRead More
Dead body identified
IDENTIFICATION has been made on the dead body that was left at the National Referral Hospital since last Friday. The deceased is from Buma village on West Kwaio, Malaita Province. Police Commissioner, Mr Mathew Varley confirmed this to the local media during his weekly media conference yesterday. Mr Varley said relatives of the deceased made the identification late yesterday night upon the appeal made by the Police and NRH morgue staff. He said now that the deceased has been identified his relatives are now arranging for proper burial of hisRead More
Fiu Hydro awaits high court decision
FIU hydro Project one of the national projects to be implemented on malaita province is awaiting a high court decision before any actual work can start after reaching this stalemate last year. The project was halted due to some parties claiming to be real landowners bringing this matter to the high court towards the end of last year. Informations obtained by this paper said the project has been halted for almost seven months without any decision being made from the high court as yet. Some have questioned why the decisionRead More
Government may look to treasure hunters to save nation’s economy
AS the government’s revenue collection continues to nose-dive, there are suggestions treasure hunters may hold the key to salvaging the nation from its worsening economic woes. This comes as one former Prime Minister warns the nation is taking the “wrong direction.” “Unless we change direction, there is danger lurking everywhere around us,” the man said earlier this week. The prophetic warning came on Tuesday when Government Caucus was lamenting the nation’s financial woes over which it has lost control. According to insiders the government’s finances are in dire straits. “EveryoneRead More
Electoral Bill expected to reach Parliament by July
THE new Electoral Bill is likely to reach Parliament when it resumes next month. Last week the Taskforce responsible for drawing up the final draft worked odd hours trying to finalise the bill before the June-July 2017 parliamentary session. The Task Force comprised of representatives from the office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Ministry of Home Affairs, Office of the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission and Office of the Registrar of Political Parties. The Bill was supposed to be tabled in the June-July 2016 parliamentary session, but for a rangeRead More
Distribution of shipping grants causes firefight in Caucus
THERE was a fire fight of sorts in Caucus last Tuesday – Government MPs on one side, the Minister of Infrastructure Development, Jimmy Lusibaea, on the other. In the dual that followed, Government MPs allegedly demanded that their applications for grants from the controversial shipping grants should be given priority over those from members of the Opposition, internal sources have revealed. Some even said that Opposition MPs should never be given anything at all, they said. But Minister Lusibaea stood up to them. He reportedly told Caucus that the shippingRead More