Admitted patients at the Good Samaritan Hospital at Tetere, North Guadalcanal are not being fed meals by the Hospital. One of the patients, Selwyn Suba an Anglican priest, admitted twice at the hospital, told SIBC’s North Guadalcanal stringer Dudley Gani that the government must address this issue.
Over 2-hundred solar panels are set to be distributed to three wards in North Malaita. The Ministry of Mines and Energy delivered the set of solar panels under the Japanese Tech Pacific Environment Committee fund.
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has today launched the Biometric Voter Registration system in Honiara, ahead of next week’s actual registration process. Today’s launch also saw the Prime Minister in a demonstration of the different stages of registration using the new biometric system.
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has today approved a new project to help rural Solomon Islands communities mitigate and manage risks of natural hazards and climate change.
An elderly man in North Guadalcanal has accused the constituency’s Member of Parliament of disrespectful behavior, after the MP took back solar panels that were already distributed to him.
The Correctional Services of Solomon Islands Women’s Network has been awarded the inaugural Annual Australian High Commissioner’s International Women’s Day Award.
Former Premier of Guadalcanal Province Anthony Veke has disassociated his former government from the issues surrounding the selling of Doma Land to the Prime Minister.
The South Seas Evangelical Church has begun celebrations to mark its Golden Jubilee at the site of the mission’s first arrival – Ambu, Malaita Province.
New forms of electronic and mobile phone banking recently introduced in the country can boost and improve the basic services provided by rural Savings Clubs.
Bank South Pacific, BSP has brought banking to the heart of East Honiara. FF Store, owned by Alick Oitaloa and Fraser Fulesau is now a BSP Agent, and is equipped and able assist BSP customers to do deposits, make withdrawals and open new BSP Accounts in Gilbert Camp and surrounding areas.
Choiseul Province Premier Jackson Kiloe has questioned the accessibility of the new Biometric Voter Registration, BVR system for all citizens in the country.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force,RSIPF will organise its 2014 recruitment training later this month. Confirming this yesterday in her weekly media conference, Acting Police Commissioner Juanita Matanga said the training is scheduled for 14 March this year.
The Solomon Islands National U19 Football Team Fundraising Committee has sold twenty tables in the lead up to the gala corporate dinner event this weekend.
High Commissioner to New Zealand, Joy Kere has formally presented her Letters of Introduction to New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Financial Intelligence Unit has issued a warning to the traveling public to declare currencies, of a minimum equivalent to 50-thousand Solomon dollars, that is brought into the country.
A shortage of lawyers within the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs has caused lengthy delays in getting Cabinet attention for the Law Reform Commission’s reports on corruption offences and sexual offences.
The Law Reform Commission has urged the Government to provide proper and adequate mental health facilities for people with mental impairment who are detained for crimes. This is one recommendation the Commission made in its report on Mental Impairment, Criminal Responsibility and Fitness to Plead.
The 2013 Police Act will be launched next week. Acting Police Commissioner Juanita Matanga announced the launching today in Honiara. Commissioner Matanga told her weekly press conference today, next week’s launching follows a long and challenging discussion process to review and compile the Act.
The Law Reform Commission should have a new Chairperson by July this year. Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs, Commins Mewa made the assurance to the Commission during yesterday’s handover of the Commission’s third report on mental impairment.
Two New Caledonian nationals who confessed to failing to declare more than 80-thousand dollars when they entered the country, have been fined 32-thousand dollars. The duo, a couple, were charged with failing to declare foreign currencies to the Customs & Immigration and false declaration.
