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Health
Nurses sit in protest update
More than 500 nurses from the National Referral Hospital(NRH), HCC and Guadalcanal Province are currently on a sit in protest at the NRH Car park as of this morning. The protest was earlier not approved by the responsible authorities.
30 Oct 2020
FFA
Operation Kurukuru air surveillance on Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing
The Forum Fisheries Agency’s largest maritime surveillance “Operation Kurukuru” will end Friday this week after a robust two weeks surveillance effort conducted by FFA and itsmembers.
28 Oct 2020
COVID-19 update
FOUR COVID-19 PATIENTS CAME FROM UK
The four COVID-19 patients were among the 16 soccer players who have been stranded in the United Kingdom since early this year. The four were recently red-flagged upon their arrival and were later tested positive for COVID-19.
28 Oct 2020
COVID-19 EMERGENCY POWERS REGULATIONS 2020
18 local students in the Philippine tested positive of COVID-19 reverted to negative
Eighteen of the 22 positive COVID-19 students in the Philippines have now tested negative in their recent tests. The students are now cleared to return home. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told the nation today.
19 Oct 2020
Top Headlines
One UN Pacific Website launched
The United Nations Organisation and its agencies in the Pacific has this week launched the “One UN Pacific Website” via zoom video teleconference. The video conference brought together journalists from the UN member countries in the region to witness the launching ahead of the UN’s 75th…
18 Oct 2020
Shipping
WEST ARE’ARE SHIPPING COMPANY WELCOMES REPORT ON TAIMAREHO’S SEA TRAGEDY
The West Are’are Shipping Company Limited Board as the responsible authority to administer the operational affair of MV Taimareho 1 welcomes the report compiled by the Board of Marine Inquiry on MV Taimareho’s sea tragedy.
15 Oct 2020
Court
Incest bail application refused
The bail application for 37-year-old male charged with three counts of domestic violence and one count of persistent sexual abuse of a child was refused bail. The complainant is the daughter of the accused.
15 Oct 2020
Corona-virus
SOLOMON ISLANDS RECORDED 3RD COVID-19 CASE: ANOTHER 4 IN THE PHILIPPINES
Solomon Islands has recorded its 3rd local confirmed COVID-19 positive case. The person is a student who returned from the Philippines repatriation flight. The person is currently in isolation at the National Referral Hospital for medical observations.
15 Oct 2020
Cabinet
CABINET APPROVED ADDITIONAL MEASURES AGAINST COVID-19
Cabinet has approved additional response measures under the current Emergency Regulations in light of the two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country This is based on the assessment of the current risk level as being of ‘low risk’, taken together with the assurance from health authorities, that…
12 Oct 2020
COVID-19 update
Solomon Islands recorded second COVID-19 case: Patient not sick
Solomon Islands have recorded its second case of COVID-19. The second COVID-19 patient is a student repatriated from the Philippine flight who sat close to the first COVID-19 patient during the flight.
11 Oct 2020
Domestic Violence
Seif Ples recieved donation of SBD $120 000 from POB
Seif Ples Centre in Honiara have recieved a donation of 1-hundred and twenty thousand dollars from Pan Oceanic Bank (POB) recently. The cheaque was handed over by POB Chief Executive Officer Upul Hettiarachi at the Seif Ples Centre at the Rove Police Headquarters in Honiara.
9 Oct 2020
Economic Stimulus Package (ESP)
COMMITTEE CLARIFIED DELAY ON FINALIZING SOME PROJECTS UNDER ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE
The Government’s Economic Stimulus Package Oversight Committee has clarified the cause of delay for approving projects under the Economic Stimulus package.
9 Oct 2020
Disaster
TAINAREHO 1 OWNER AND MASTER ALLEGEDLY VIOLATED SHIPPING ACT 1988
The Owner and Master of Taimareho 1 have allegedly violated certain sections of the country’s Shipping Act 1998 prior to MV Taimareho’s sea tragedy in April 2020.
7 Oct 2020
Coronavirus
SCHOOLS TO CONTINUE NORMAL DESPITE THE FIRST COVID-19 CASE
Schools throughout the country will continue with their normal classes. This was according to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Dr. Franco Rodie.
5 Oct 2020
Coronavirus
Solomon Islands lost it’s COVID-19 free status
“It pains me to say that we have lost our COVID-19 free status.”
5 Oct 2020
Coronavirus
SIG is committed to solving Philippine students visa/passport issues
The government is committed to solving visa and passport issues facing local students in the Philippine. A total of 305 locals are still in the Philippines and 112 of them have visa and passport issues.
30 Sept 2020
Forestry
HEAVY PENALTIES NEEDED FOR ILLEGAL LOGGERS
Heavy penalties must be put in place for bogus investment like loggers continuously breaking the country’s laws. Leader of Opposition Hon. Matthew Wale made the call on the government to review and amend the laws dealing with logging and our protected wildlife species including Tubi.
30 Sept 2020
Court
45 years old man sentenced for abusing wife
A 45-year-old man was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment for domestic violence –physical abuse charges at the magistrate court this morning. Joel Tute on 19th June physically abused his wife by doing a conduct that caused her bodily pain which saw him punching his wife’s eye, hitting her head,…
25 Sept 2020
Court
Coronial Inquest into the Tasahe bomb blast; 2 deaths
A Coronial Inquest into the death of two expatriates at their residence last week will be brought before the Corona court once the police complete their investigations. A Briton, Stephen Atkinson, and an Australian Trent Lee were killed by a bomb blast in their residence in Honiara.
24 Sept 2020
Diplomacy
PRC first Ambassador officially welcomed
“The storm has been weathered. We know how to steer the boat. It will only make this relationship stronger”.
20 Sept 2020