High Court Judge Stephen Pallaras has ordered the Director of the National Criminal Investigations’s Department to submit a report showing improved and strict measures for his department, to ensure evidence of criminal investigations they collect are safe and secure.
The Minister of Finance and Treasury, Hon Rick Hou has commended all parties involve on the recent court decision to convict and sentence Mr Wesley Poloso of the fake shipping company, Joke Shipping.
The major Court battle between Axiom KB of Australia against Japanese mining firm Sumitomo Limited has finally concluded this morning at the High Court after almost nine months of trial. The Court will deliver its judgement at a later date. The trial began around October last year.
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 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.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of being part of a gang who robbed the Honiara Casino of over 50-thousand dollars. The robbery happened yesterday at the West Pac Bank in Point Cruz. Police say two men were waiting near the entrance to the bank and attacked an employee of the Honiara Casino, who
Inclusive Disability School founder, Linda Agoka has praised the country’s justice system for sentencing a man in his 50’s last week for raping a disabled girl. Ms Agoka told SIBC News today the sentencing judgment is reasonable as disabled victims are often vulnerable to assaults.
A man in his fifties, convicted of raping a disabled girl, has been sentenced to 14 years of jail time. The man, who is a close relative of the victim, raped her on two separate occasions in 2010 and in 2011 in her bedroom at her parents house in Western Province. He was 46 years
The Chairman of the FOPA Evacuation centre’s internal committee and his spokesperson appeared at the Magistrate Courts this morning on charges of allegedly obstructing and refusing to cooperate with Government disaster officials.
Afio Community members in Small Malaita, Malaita Province have questioned magistrate court’s decision to hear various court cases at Afio Market House last week.
Police are investigating a death incident where a male body was found at the Lungga river early this morning. According to the Police Media Unit, the deceased is in his early 20’s and is from the Central Islands. Locals who discovered the body early this morning alerted the Police.
A young man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a man with a screwdriver. The stabbing took place at Lungga in February, 2010. On the night of February 10 that year, the deceased and his brother took a taxi from the China Town bus-stop and headed East to Henderson.
Police are investigating an armed robbery that took place at Ranandi, East Honiara. The armed robbery happened yesterday afternoon, when five men wearing masks and armed with bush knives, entered an Asian-owned Concrete Company compound and stole more than 30-thousand dollars, along with electronic…
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force will remain on high alert, following the rioting, looting and arson last weekend. Speaking during a police conference yesterday, Acting Police Commissioner Juanita Matanga said police will continue its operation until the situation returns to normal.
Police have arrested 22 suspects in relation to the rioting, looting and arson in Honiara over the weekend. Acting Police Commissioner Juanita Matanga confirms the numbers, saying the suspects were charged with arson,criminal trespass and unlawful assembly.
Acting Police Commissioner Juanita Matanga is urging people in Honiara to remain calm and allow the Police to continue in its operations. In a statement today, Commissioner Matanga said the Police will remain on high alert and will continue to conduct their operation high visibility in hot spot…
A man is standing trial in the High Court for allegedly stabbing another man with a screwdriver in February 2010 at Lungga, East Honiara. The deceased was later found at the Panatina field. The Crown’s case is that the accused intended to cause the death or grievous bodily harm to the deceased.
The police have issued a warning against touching victims of road accidents without professional medical assistance saying more harm might be done, than good.
High Court judge Stephen Pallaras has acquitted a man from rape charges yesterday because there was no consistent evidence against him. The defendant was accused of allegedly raping a woman from Makira Province at Burnscreek in 2012. His trial started Monday this week.
