Visale Catholic parish has joined other countries globally to commemorate Ash Wednesday this week. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lent season as a season of penance, reflection, and fasting which prepares us for Christ’s Resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Ruavatu Secondary School in North East Guadalcanal resumes academic classes next Monday after the long year-end break. The school has been forced to close its academic classes early last year after villagers attacked and sexually assault one female student.
The Solomon Islands Business Development (SPBD) and the Ministry of Health and Medical Services have conducted a free medical check-up and awareness for its centre clients in Visale North West Guadalcanal today.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIFP) had to deploy additional officers to Tetere Police station to control a violent situation at Tetere yesterday.
In a related Police story, Tetere Police station on the Guadalcanal Plains came under attack from surrounding communities today after locals blame Police for the death of one of their lads over the weekend.
An update just came to hand from the police, a group of almost 100 frustrated relatives turned up at Tetere Police Station this morning and demanded police explanation to the cause of death of one of their youths. A police accommodation situated by the road was partly damaged.
Solomon Outreach Society (SOS) in New Zealand has donated school furniture for Divit Rural Training Centre and Visale Primary School in West Guadalcanal. The Outreach Society was established by a former Catholic Father Peter Hudleby from New Zealand who served in the Solomon Islands in the 1950s.
Gold Ridge Community and Landowners Council demands the Democratic Coalition for Change Government (DCCG) to pay $18 million to the council before negotiating the reopening of Gold Ridge Mining.
Guadalcanal Provincial Police operation team has successfully uprooted more than 1000 marijuana plants at Komukea Village, North East Guadalcanal on Friday.
Member of Parliament for North Guadalcanal Constituency Samson Maneka has provided 36 scholarship opportunities for students in his Constituency. SIBC News stringer for North Guadalcanal Duddley Gani reports this follows a total of $180,000 scholarship payment agreement the MP made with the Solomon…
Communities in Northwest Guadalcanal have called on Democratic Coalition for Change (DCC) Government to initiate possibilities to fix the current deteriorating road condition at Komebau Naro.
Guadalcanal Plains Palm Oil Limited (GPPOL) has accepted Guadalcanal Provincial Government (GPG) to resume its budget support initiative for Guadalcanal Province.
North Guadalcanal has formed a Constituency Congress. SIBC’s stringer in North Guadalcanal, Dudley Gani reports this is a new initiative taken by the MP for North Guadalcanal Samson Maneka. Gani says the congress held their first meeting last Sunday.
Police have confiscated more than 75 cartons of beer at a private residence in Honiara, but no arrests have been made in relation to the raided black market outlet. The raid happened at Bahaii in Central Honiara yesterday evening.
Guadalcanal plains communities are demanding an equal distribution of water supply projects to their communities. SIBC’s stringer for North Guadalcanal reports, officials from the Guadalcanal Province Health Division have quoted as saying most approved water supply projects were only implemented in…
Solomon Islands is now in ‘dengue season’ and the World Health Organisation Office in the country has begun warning the general public to take action in efforts to minimize the risk of getting dengue fever.
An incomplete clinic project initiated by Australian Mining Company, St Barbara in North Guadalcanal has left residents in Bembe and Koli point questioning what has happened to the project.
Police at Tetere and Henderson, today raided two marijuana gardens in North East Guadalcanal, uprooting over 4,500 plants. The gardens, which was about a hundred metres in length, had 3,000 harvest bottom plants and 1,500 mid-harvest plants.
A community leader of Sun Valley, George Tikini, has questioned Lever Solomons Ltd over the legitimacy of its Sun Valley land sale notice. Mr Tikini says this follows a $1.2 million payment the company recently demanded from Sun Valley community.
The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology and the Honiara City Council are today hosting the fourth Joint Coordinating Committee Meeting of solid waste management project in Honiara.
