Four men from the Weather Coast of South Guadalcanal are standing trial at the Central Magistrate’s Court for allegedly knowing that prisoner escapee Gedly Isa, was a convicted murderer. The men are charged with accessory after the fact.
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has won his appeal against a High Court order for him to disclose all financial records of how he spent the Gizo-Kolombangara Constituency’s Development Funds.
Judge Stephen Pallaras this morning conducted a hearing on why a Crown Prosecutor failed to attend the Court proceedings of a juvenile murder case. Crown Prosecutor Andrew Kelesi was the prosecuting Counsel for the case in which the juvenile was convicted.
The Court of Appeal will deliver its decision tomorrow regarding West Honiara MP Namson Tran’s citizenship. Leader of the Opposition, Dr Derek Sikua filed the case alleging the chairman of the government caucus, was granted citizenship illegally. Dr. Sikua claims the approval of Mr.
A 55 year old Taiwanese national who escaped from a court ruling in 2009 was re-arrested by police. A statement from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, RSIPF, said this was after the accused and his co-offender have failed to pay out a large sum of money against them in 2009.
The High Court has ruled against the October 26, 2012 decision by the Speaker of Parliament, Sir Allan Kemakeza in allowing Parliament to debate and vote on the Opposition’s proposed Motion of No Confidence in Prime Minister Hon Gordon Darcy Lilo without being introduced to the house for…
The Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Kola says flat tyres caused his collision with the post in Honiara – the accident happened in the early hours of Friday last week. Mr Kola made the statement in a letter published in today’s Letters to the Editor column in the Solomon Star newspaper.
Parliament has passed the Magistrates Courts Amendment Bill, giving way for the electronic recording of oral evidence in Court. The Bill, passed just before 12noon today, puts in a new section 69 in the existing Magistrates Courts Act.
Properties belonging to Fataleka MP Steve Abana that were seized by the High Court will be put on public auction at the end of this month. Pacnews reports this comes after Mr Abana failed to fulfill a High Court order for him to pay a sum of 5-hundred and forty thousand dollars, excluding other…
A woman from Duff Island, Temotu Province has been arrested on a charge of cruelty to children after she allegedly burnt her 6 year old daughter’s buttocks.
A woman from Duff Island, Temotu Province has been arrested on a charge of cruelty to children after she allegedly burnt her 6 year old daughter’s buttocks.
Landowners of Guadalcanal Plain Palm Oil Limited have called on Guadalcanal Plains Resources Development Association to pay up their outstanding bills. Paramount chief of Thibo Tribe and Land trustee of GPPOL Benedict Garimane said the Guadalcanal Resource Development Association failed to pay…
Two people have filed a case at the High Court claiming the registration of three parcels of land at White River in the names of West Honiara M-P Namson Tran, Honiara City Mayor Andrew Mua and three other people was by mistake and fraud. Basil Tavake and Anna Bako filed the case last month. The
The Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer and three other Judges are currently attending the 21st Pacific Judicial Development Conference in Auckland New Zealand. Acting High Court Registrar Maiyoni Samani confirmed the Judges left the country last week.
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.
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.
A public bus driver has been fined 1-thousand-5-hundred dollars for careless driving. The 40-year-old man had collided with the a green Mitsubishi Pajero at the Mendana Avenue in Honiara in October last year. The collision caused damage to the Pajero’s windscreen.
A young Electrical student of Kaotave Rural Training Centre is standing trial at the High Court for rape. Police allege the accused raped a grade six student at the Balasuna river in October 2012.
Landowners of Tehakamagoku in West Rennell urged the managing director of the Samlinsan Company Limited, Junior Pow to refrain from using the media to mislead them.
The High Court will continue its hearing into an application Samlinsan Company Limited filed for the Court to vary the injunction orders in relation to Tehakamagoku land in Rennell, Rennell-Bellona Province in early June.
