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.
Honiara and KiraKira Police are investigating a murder incident following the death of an adult person last Monday. The investigation comes after the death of a man and subsequent escape of the accused to his home village at Makira Ulawa province.
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.
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.
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.
The Malaita Ma’asina Forum, MMF, has called on the government to clear its name on whether it has given approval to Oceanic Oasis company to print cigarette labels in Hong Kong for the illegal cigarettes recently imported into the country.
High Court Judge Francis Mwanesalua will deliver his sentence tomorrow on a 51 year old man from Temotu Province, convicted of raping his young adopted daughter. The man is facing jail for three counts of rape.
The Director of Samlinsan Company Limited has denied his company defied a High Court injunction order and conducted logging activities on Tehakamagoku in Rennell island. Junior Pao Eaukiewhu was testifying to the High Court during a hearing this morning.
A man from Vella Lavella Western Province has appeared behind bars at the Magistrate’s Court this morning for a murder. It was alleged the accused killed another man in Maravari Village, Vella La Vella over a land boundary dispute in November last year.
A Temotu man convicted of raping his adopted daughter will be sentenced next week. He initially stood trial on eight counts of rape, but this was reduced to four counts following a no case to answer submission from his lawyer.
Police are investigating one of its senior Officers who hit a boy with his private vehicle in Noro last Friday. The Police Media Unit reports, the officer and his family were all traveling in the vehicle at the time of the accident. It adds the boy is in a stable condition and is receiving medical
East Fataleka M-P Steve Abana has filed an application to stay an order by the High Court for him to pay more than half a million dollars to a Silas Fakani. The order resulted in an enforcement order from the Court in which Mr Abana’s two vehicles were seized last week after he failed to
The High Court has sentenced a man in his mid-forties to 2 years six months in jail for attempting to rape and indecently assaulting his teenage step-daughter. The man was convicted on two counts of attempted rape and one count of indecent assault after pleading guilty.
The Police recorded a low crime rate this week, says Acting Police Commissioner Juanita Matanga. Speaking at her press conference today, the Acting Police Commissioner said police attended to 42 reported cases – where 26 were arrested, and 14 were held in Custody.
Three employees of Sol Brew Company Limited will stand trial at the Magistrate’s Court on 21 April for allegedly stealing 35 cartons of beer in July last year. The trial date was fixed after a short pre-trial conference yesterday.
The Magistrate’s Court has released an eighty-year old grandfather from Isabel Province accused of indecently assaulting his grand daughter from custody this morning. The accused’s lawyer applied for bail because of the accused’s very old age.
Member of Parliament for South Guadalcanal David Dei Pacha will stand a full trial again on charges of conversion and abuse of office on the 14th of April. The Magistrates Court set his trial date this morning.
The police prosecution plans to oppose the bail application of an eighty-year-old grandfather from Isabel Province in custody for indecently assaulting his fourteen year old granddaughter last year.
