The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) has clarified the SBD 15 million dollars COVID-19 funding support from the New Zealand government. This follows the Leader of Opposition’s call for the government to explain the whereabouts of the funding support provided by the New Zealand…
The Solomon Islands Nurses Association has this evening suspended as an association. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare made the decision in accordance with the Emergency Powers Act (CAP 11) following a sit-in protest by the nurses in Honiara, today.
More than 500 nurses from the National Referral Hospital(NRH), HCC and Guadalcanal Province are currently on a sit in protest at the NRH Car park as of this morning. The protest was earlier not approved by the responsible authorities.
The Forum Fisheries Agency’s largest maritime surveillance “Operation Kurukuru” will end Friday this week after a robust two weeks surveillance effort conducted by FFA and itsmembers.
The four COVID-19 patients were among the 16 soccer players who have been stranded in the United Kingdom since early this year. The four were recently red-flagged upon their arrival and were later tested positive for COVID-19.
Eighteen of the 22 positive COVID-19 students in the Philippines have now tested negative in their recent tests. The students are now cleared to return home. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told the nation today.
The United Nations Organisation and its agencies in the Pacific has this week launched the “One UN Pacific Website” via zoom video teleconference. The video conference brought together journalists from the UN member countries in the region to witness the launching ahead of the UN’s 75th…
Solomon Islands has recorded its 3rd local confirmed COVID-19 positive case. The person is a student who returned from the Philippines repatriation flight. The person is currently in isolation at the National Referral Hospital for medical observations.
Cabinet has approved additional response measures under the current Emergency Regulations in light of the two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country This is based on the assessment of the current risk level as being of ‘low risk’, taken together with the assurance from health authorities, that…
Solomon Islands have recorded its second case of COVID-19. The second COVID-19 patient is a student repatriated from the Philippine flight who sat close to the first COVID-19 patient during the flight.
Seif Ples Centre in Honiara have recieved a donation of 1-hundred and twenty thousand dollars from Pan Oceanic Bank (POB) recently. The cheaque was handed over by POB Chief Executive Officer Upul Hettiarachi at the Seif Ples Centre at the Rove Police Headquarters in Honiara.
The Government’s Economic Stimulus Package Oversight Committee has clarified the cause of delay for approving projects under the Economic Stimulus package.
The Owner and Master of Taimareho 1 have allegedly violated certain sections of the country’s Shipping Act 1998 prior to MV Taimareho’s sea tragedy in April 2020.
Schools throughout the country will continue with their normal classes. This was according to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Dr. Franco Rodie.
The government is committed to solving visa and passport issues facing local students in the Philippine. A total of 305 locals are still in the Philippines and 112 of them have visa and passport issues.
Heavy penalties must be put in place for bogus investment like loggers continuously breaking the country’s laws. Leader of Opposition Hon. Matthew Wale made the call on the government to review and amend the laws dealing with logging and our protected wildlife species including Tubi.
A Coronial Inquest into the death of two expatriates at their residence last week will be brought before the Corona court once the police complete their investigations. A Briton, Stephen Atkinson, and an Australian Trent Lee were killed by a bomb blast in their residence in Honiara.
