The Solomon Islands contingent to the fifth Melanesian Festival of Arts has left the country for Papua New Guinea. Media Officer for the Solomon Islands Contingent, George Hermmings, told SIBC News this week the contingent left on a chartered flight yesterday.
Patients diagnosed with non-communicable disease are occupying almost 1-hundred percent of beds in the medical and surgical wards at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara.
A local tourist business operator in North Malaita, Ngenomea Kabui, has questioned the government’s tourism development priorities. This came after a recent trip to the region by Chief Executive Officer of Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau, Josefa Tuamoto, has failed to identify potential tourist…
The Government has signed an agreement with local tourism company Solomon Host and a Brisbane-based video production company, Torn Parachute, for the gateway project this week.
Women’s representatives from none government organizations and churches have successfully ended a forum to advance gender equality in communities in the country.
The Electoral Commission has announced over 2-hundred and 87-thousand registered voters are on the newly compiled Provisional Voters List – of which, almost 6-thousand were multiple registrations.
The National Disaster Management Office has given people currently residing in the two last remaining evacuation centres at Rove and FOPA until tomorrow to vacate the areas. NDMO Director, Loti Yates says the immediate deadline is due to financial challenges.
A lack of analysis and reportage of development in the mainstream media will now be covered by the Government’s new publication ‘The Nation’. Launched last night, the Nation is a 12-page magazine, printed on glossy paper.
Yearly rice imports are putting Solomon Islands at a serious food security risk level, especially when external shocks such as the increase in world food prices normally trickles down to rice importing countries.
A well known gospel singer is on trial at the Magistrate’s Court, accused of defiling his former girlfriend. He allegedly had sex with the young girl on four separate occasions, between May 2010 and April 2011.
A young man will serve 15 months in prison for causing grievous bodily harm to his brother-in-law and intimidating his own mother. In October 2013, the accused stabbed his brother-in-law with a bush knife.
The Government has officially launched its magazine yesterday in Honiara. Called ‘The Nation’, the 12-page edition will be a monthly publication, printed on glossy paper.
The Ministry of Development Planning and the Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce are hosting meetings this week to discuss findings of an assessment identifying strengths and priorities of Solomon Islands workforce development system.
Solomon Islands needs to go into semi-commercial rice production if it wants to offset current rice imports of over 50-million dollars per year. Chief Field Officer of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Willie Tuita made the statement yesterday, at the start of another rice harvesting week…
The Magistrates Court this morning sentenced a man from Choiseul Province to two and a half years imprisonment for defrauding the Government of one-point-five million dollars. The money was part of 10-million dollars which went missing from the Ministry of Health’s treasury department in 2012.
Provincial Assembly Member for Malango Ward, Walton Naezon has accused the Tina Hydro Project Office of not following proper legal processes to identify landowners. Mr Naezon made the comments following a media statement from the Project Office, published in local newspapers today.
The Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau has unveiled its plans to position the destination as a new and very alternative venue for the international MICE market.
The Solomon Islands has the world’s highest Google search volume index for “World Cup”, says the America’s Time online magazine. In an article “5 weird facts about the World Cup”, the Time says the Solomon Islands is “Googling ‘World Cup’ like crazy”.
The Don Bosco Technical Institute at Tetere, North Guadalcanal, has marked another success story with yet another rice harvest, which started today. Speaking to officially launch the rice harvesting week, Taiwan’s Ambassador to Solomon Islands, Victor Tesun Yu says Taiwan is serious in its…
The World Island Shake project is currently in the country, and Program Director, Antonio Perez says he is impressed with the National Youth Congress and its partnership with the EU Youth In Action program.
