The New Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIPF) Commissioner Frank Prendergast has confirmed that there is no open case against him in Australia. Mr Prendegast made the comment while answering questions from local journalists following allegations against him in Australia.
Pan Oceanic Bank, says it’s had a resounding response with more than 5,000 accounts opened in its first two months. The Chief Executive, Nihal Kekulawala, told Radio New Zealand International, the Pan Oceanic Bank has the lowest interest rates in the country, and unlike other banks, grants loans to…
State Own Enterprises in the country has showed an average 10 percent return on equity in 2010 to 2012 compared to a return of negative 11 percent from 2002 to 2009.
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Samuel Manetoali has confirmed the country had spent about $195 million to host the 2012 11th Festival of Pacific Arts (FOPA) in Honiara.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RASI) have applaud the active engagement of communities and organisations in the government’s decision on its limited rearmament project.
The U.S. Secretary of State says lessons left behind by the marines, scouts and coast watchers who fought in the 1942 Battle for Guadalcanal can be useful for Solomon Islands and the United States.
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has maintained it was Solomon Islands turn to lead the Pacific Islands Forum. Prime Minister Lilo and various senior Government officials were in Koror, Palau for the Forum Leaders Summit last week, during which elections for the Forum General Secretary post was…
Solomon Islands has been singled out amongst three Pacific Island nations to benefit from a fashion and cultural industries coaching training. The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat says practitioners, government officials, representatives from arts and culture associations, women’s groups, tourism…
The last athlete to compete for Team Solomon Islands in the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Sharon Firisua has set a new Solomon Islands National. The Reporters Academy reports, despite typically tough Scottish weather conditions, Sharon ran a time of 18 minutes 45-point-eighteen seconds to set…
Solomon Islands has lost out to Papua New Guinea in the run for the region’s top executive post after Pacific Islands Forum Leaders elected Dame Meg Taylor to replace Tuiloma Neroni Slade as Secretary General of the Forum.
Members of Team Solomon Islands had the honor to meet Queen Elizabeth the second at Glasgow, Scotland, during the Commonwealth Games. A media statement today said, Triathlon Coach Nathan Thompson saw her on the opening night of the competition from a distance but three members of the team actually…
Competing in one of the first events of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Solomon Islands’ Tony Lomo came up against the strong challenge of Razak Abugiri of Ghana but was unfortunately defeated.
National weightlifter Brown Ramohaka has set a personal best and a Solomon Islands National record at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, with a lift of 1-hundred and thirty-five kilograms.
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has sent condolences to families of victims of the Malaysian Airlines flight disaster. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was flying to Indonesia from Amsterdam, Netherlands when it was shot down over pro-Russian territory in eastern Ukraine.
The Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture will return to Solomon Islands in 2018. This is after Solomon Islands won the bid to host the next Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture. Solomon Islands hosted the inaugural Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture in 1998.
Permanent Secretary for Culture and Tourism, John Wasi says Solomon Islands is optimistic to be the host of the next Melanesian Festival of Arts. The Permanent Secretary was part of the 168-member contingent from Solomon Islands attending the current Melanesian Arts Festival in Papua New Guinea.
Solomon Islands participants at the 5th Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture continue to impress at satellite venues around Papua New Guinea. A statement from the contingent’s Media Team says – music bands, dance and panpipe groups traveled to satellite venues at Mount Hagen in the Highlands of…
Delegates to the 5th Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture in Port Moresby have paid special tribute to the Director of the Culture Division of the Solomon Islands Ministry of Culture and Tourism, following his death in Papua New Guinea over the weekend.
A leader of the Solomon Islands contingent to the Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival in Papua New Guinea has passed away. In a service message through SIBC, the Minister, Permanent Secretary and staff of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announce, the late John Tahinao, Director of Culture,…
The current political impasse in Papua New Guinea has no effect on the Solomon Islands contingent to the 5th Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival in the country.
