Westpac Solomon Islands has announced it has a new General Manager. He is Elliott Griffin. Griffin replaces Kutila Pinto who served in the role for four years.
North Malaita communities are calling on responsible authorities to quickly fix bad roads in the constituency. SIBC’s stringer John Andrew Kiri reports, the road is 10 kilometres and connects Kwaitabu stream and Barafau community.
Triathlon Solomon Islands monthly event will hold its big event for the year this weekend. The National Triathlon Sprint Championships will be held at the usual Kakabona Beach venue.
The Electoral Commission has passed a resolution to review out of constituency voting in next year’s electoral legislative reform process. The Commission had met on Monday to discuss the possibility of casting an ‘out of constituency’ ballot.
Nominations for Intending Candidates for the National General Elections has closed at 4:30pm today. The Electoral Commission Office told SIBC News the Commission is now in the process to compile the list of candidates and will announce the final names of candidates as soon as the list is finalised.
A two-day workshop on Solomon Islands Traditional Knowledge Inception has successfully ended today in Honiara. Amongst its aims, the workshop wanted to identify traditional indicators of weather and climate and its reliability.
The Governor of Central Bank, Denton Rarawa has described the 2014 Annual Meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund which he attended in Washington DC as “very successful”. Held every first week of October each year, Mr Rarawa said the meeting discussed world economic issues.
Secretary to Cabinet, James Remobatu has urged Permanent Secretaries to lead the financial reforms within their ministries. Addressing Permanent Secretaries in a Financial Management Workshop in Honiara Monday this week, Mr Remobatu said Permanent Secretaries must strike a balance in their output…
The Pacific Business Mentoring Programme trainers have returned to Honiara for a four days long training to existing and new clients. The training started yesterday at Heritage Park Hotel and 19 small and medium size businesses from the agriculture, tourism, professional services, events…
A Honiara man is calling on new Members of Parliament who will be determined by the elections next month to focus more on solutions than workshops. Justin Aniri told SIBC News enough workshops have been held on identifying the country’s problems but there were less on finding objective and…
The 2014 Chess League has kicked off in the capital. President of the Solomon Islands Chess Federation Luke Mamae says more than 50 players from eight clubs within Honiara are competing in the league.
Over 20 women have been registered to contest the National General Elections next month. Women in Leadership Desk Officer at the National Council of Women, Casper Fa’asala confirmed to SIBC News today, a total of 26 women paid their registration fees to date.
A five days Climate Change workshop is currently underway in Kirakira, Makira Ulawa Province. Speaking to SIBC News, Chair of the Province’s Climate Change Coordination Committee, Alick Pinihimae says the workshop wants to develop ways to address climate change, vulnerability and risk assessment…
Bankruptcy notices issued to the former Member of Parliament for East Are’are has caused concern and confusion amongst voters in the constituency, who thought the bankruptcy notice was in relation to RCDF funds. A private law firm last week had issued a bankruptcy notice for Andrew Manepora’a.
The Central Bank of Solomon Islands has made a public clarification on why the Bank is facilitating a Relationship Management Agreement for the country’s newest commercial bank, the Pan Oceanic Bank and another bank in the Asian region.
Former politician, Alfred Sasako, has renewed his call for Constituency Voter Booths to be set up in Honiara. In a statement yesterday, Mr Sasako said having Constituency Voter Booths in Honiara is a win-win situation for voters and intending candidates.
The seven-a-side soccer knockout hosted by the West Kwara’ae Sports Association at Dala North in the West Kwara’ae Constituency has received overwhelming participation from 20 soccer clubs within the region.
The Governor of Central Bank, Denton Rarawa says the Pan Oceanic Bank’s support of the forestry sector has avoided a potential instability in the country’s economy.
Anti corruption watchdog, Transparency Solomon Islands has called for Parliamentary Entitlements Commission report, regarding the $400,000.00 terminal grants for MPs, to be made public. The Commission had published a gazette to increase the terminal grants to $400,000.00 on April 1 last year.
Former field force officers, who are awaiting the Government to act on their claims for payment for border security services provided during the Bougainville crisis, say they are not backing off from their plan to stage a ‘stand-off’ in the upcoming election.
