The Rural Development Program (RDP) is fully aware of issues pertaining to its first phase and they are incorporated into the second phase, says RDP Program Manager Loti Vaisekavea. Mr.
The Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification and Asia Pacific Development Company (APDC) have been served with a log of claims by the West Rennell Landowners council.
The Malaita Development Summit begins today in Auki, Malaita Province. The summit is an initiative from the Malaita Provincial Government on the province’s development objectives and on finding the way forward for peace, reconciliation and development in Malaita.
The Premier for Central Islands Province Selwyn Mapuli says the decision to close down the province’s Director of Nursing and Principal Education offices were based on stakeholders complaints.
Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has arrived in the country for the Melanesia Spearhead Group Summit. Prime Minister Bainimarama arrived late this afternoon. Also arrived this afternoon is the Director General of the PrimeMinister’s office in Vanuatu.
Chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Summit, Milner Tozaka says Foreign Affairs Ministers currently attending the 20th Melanesian Spearhead Group summit in Honiara are very confident that the meeting will have a positive outcome.
West Papua’s application to join the Melanesian Spearhead Group is among many issues to be deliberated on by the MSG leaders in their summit currently underway in Honiara. This is according to the Director General of the MSG Secretariat, Peter Forau.
The Member of Parliament for West Makira and Opposition MP Derek Manuari says the time is right that West Papua is welcomed as a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. He says West Papua deserves full membership and not just an observer status.
A 60-meter litter boom to trap marine debris and wastes will be installed across the Mataniko river in Honiara tomorrow. The litter boom is part of a pilot project from the Ministry of Environment in Collaboration with the Secretariat of the PacificRegional Environment Program SPREP to analyse and…
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) will continue tomonitor the liquor ban currently imposed throughout the country as theMelanesian Spearhead Group summit continues today.
Hograno, Kia, Havulei Constituents have witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony of their Housing scheme project over the weekend. The Constituency’s Member of Parliament, Hon.
The incoming chair of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Foreign Ministers Meeting, Hon. Milner Tozaka has called for continued solidarity in making the sub-regional group, MSG, remain relevant.
Foreign Ministers of Melanesian Spearhead Group countries have begun their official summit in Honiara today and applications for memberships is one of the meeting’s top agendas.
Solomon Islands needs to step up on providing awareness especially on the characteristics of hazards on disaster risk reduction. Director of the National Disaster Management Office Loti Yates madethe statement in his presentation during the Pacific IslandsAssociation of Non-Governmental…
The Commissioner of lands has warned against illegal squatterring on registered land. Commissioner Nelson Naoapu says the Ministry of Lands discourages this. He warns, the lands are registered and people who squatter on them will only pose problems for themselves.
The Solomon Islands Solidarity for West Papua Group is calling on the other four MSG leaders to agree on the Solomon Islands statement to support West Papua into the MSG.
The Solomon Islands Government has agreed to fund three return flights for the participating athletes and officials to the Pacific Games in Port Moresby next month. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Douglas Ete announced this at a fundraiser in Honiara over the weekend.
A two days music festival in support of West Papua’s application to join the MSG has been staged over the weekend in Honiara. Organised by the Solomon Islands Solidarity Group for West Papua, the musical feast has attracted 20 local artists, cultural dancers and thousands of spectators.
Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare has expressed awe at the pace the South Pacific Business Development (SPBD) Microfinance network has taken in advancing its mission to improve the quality of life offinancially underprivileged families in Solomon Islands.
Nine provincial governments will participate in the second phase of the Rural Development Program, which is being expanded to cover all rural wards in the country, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding last Friday.
