The Honiara City Council has begun its advocacy program via its recently launched Communications Bureau, with an extensive talk back shows on ‘Building Ordinance’ today.
The Correctional Services of Solomon Islands, CSSI, has opened eight of its new staff houses under a ten years program today. The new houses were managed by Reeves International under the RAMSI Solomon Islands Infrastructure partnership facility with the CSSI Infrastructure team.
The Solomon Islands Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, MRCC, was given a huge boost in capacity last week as a result of RAMSI sponsored training in the latest search and rescue software.
A gospel segment program will kick-start the weeklong trade Expo this Sunday at Bodo field, Chinatown. According to a tentative program, this Sunday will see businesses doing final touches to their respective stalls and announcements on the weeklong program will be highlighted.
The inaugural High School Choral Festival planned for next week is targeting high school students as they are in an age group that is vulnerable to teenage problems.
The Government has signed an agreement with local tourism company Solomon Host and a Brisbane-based video production company, Torn Parachute, for the gateway project this week.
The Don Bosco Technical Institute at Tetere, North Guadalcanal, has marked another success story with yet another rice harvest, which started today. Speaking to officially launch the rice harvesting week, Taiwan’s Ambassador to Solomon Islands, Victor Tesun Yu says Taiwan is serious in its…
Business mentors from New Zealand will return to Honiara next week for another training and mentoring session for Solomon Islands businesses that are clients.
A biological expedition in Western and Central Provinces has been successful in its mission to update and collect information on the status of marine resources within the region. The Solomon Islands Community Conservation Partnership conducted the research with the Waitt Institute this month.
The growth of the Seventh Day Adventist Church has evolved through three periods of clearly defined developments, says the President of the Solomon Islands Mission, Pastor George Fafale.
The first ever financial inclusion expo is all set to take place in the capital at the end of this week. A statement from the Central Bank says the event has generated a lot of interest, and a number of financial institutions, organizations and government agencies.
Only six out of the country’s nine provinces have met the seven minimum conditions allowing them access to 30-million dollars of Provincial Capacity Development Fund, PCDF, under the Provincial Governance Strengthening Programme, PGSP.
Solomon Islands will celebrate her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second’s birthday tomorrow, Friday 13th June. Celebrations will be held at the Lawson Tama Stadium in Honiara and will kick off with a parade at 8am.
Over 2-hundred youths have graduated from the SPC-led job internship program that sought to tackle youth unemployment in Honiara. Youth at Work started in June 2012, and was reported as successful in its work to engage youths in employment and give them practical work experience.
Correctional Officers and inmates at the Auki Correctional Centre in Malaita Province have successfully completed an ILO training on Community Based Entrepreneurs Development.
A three day Training of Trainers workshop on Nursery Management of Fruit Trees and Vegetables has started at the King George Sixth Taiwanese Technical Mission Farm in Honiara today.
Samoa hosts Solomon Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia, FSM, for the first Pacific Peer Review “South-South attachments” Six senior government officials from Ministries of Finance, Planning and Budgeting from Solomon Islands and FSM are spending two week attachment with Samoa’s Ministry…
Children in North Guadalcanal Constituency have received medical treatment for measles and rubella diseases. Reporting this to SIBC News today stringer Nathaniel Manu says the treatment program has started over the weekend and was carried out by the Guadalcanal Province health division.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Policing Unit will launch a Cyber Safety Pacifica program on Tuesday. The program aims to protect children and vulnerable people in accessing the Internet.
The cost of electricity and issues of electricity pricing remains the largest single overhead cost of private businesses in Honiara. The Chairman of the 2014 Trade Expo Committee, Redley Raramo said businesses say doing business in Honiara is troublesome because of the costs and unreliability of…
