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…
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says the appointment of consultants to develop the regulation and integrity standard of the newly passed Political Parties Integrity Act will be made this month.
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 Isabel Community in Honiara will commemorate the Isabel 2nd Appointed Day in Honiara tomorrow. Chairlady of the Isabel Honiara Committee for the Isabel Second Appointed Day Lensa Magiza calls on Isabel people living in Honiara to join the celebration tomorrow morning at the Art Gallery grounds.
Member of Parliament for Central Guadalcanal Peter Shanel said the Road Transport Board has failed to regulate the Road Transport Act 2009. Mr Shanel made the statement during the debate on the Honiara Short Bus Route motion, which was passed last Thursday.
A former Special Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office, George Kuper has said submitting acquittals of the Constituency Development Funds is not enough. Mr Kuper told SIBC News a lot of concerns have been raise over the use and disbursement of this fund as it public money.
Residents along the Bahai and Saint Barnabas Cathedral highway in Honiara thanked responsible authorities for a job well done in sealing the dusty stretch of road which had posed heath threats to their lives over the past few weeks.
Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industries, SICCI, has commended the Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA, and New Zealand Aid for their strong contributions to the betterment of transport and infrastructure around Honiara.
The Director of San Isidro Care Centre at Aruligo and Selwyn College School Principle have received an outboard Motor and 40 horsepower engine each, worth more than 1-hundred thousand dollars yesterday. The donation was made possible through funding from the Turkish Government.
The Australian High Commission in Solomon Islands will host the inaugural G’Day Solomon Islands Film Festival on 6th this month. A statement from the Australia High Commission Office said the Film Festival will be held at the Honiara Art Gallery grounds every Friday, starting next Friday.
People of Shortland Islands have criticised the Chairperson of the FAMOA Trust Board Sir George Lepping for arranging FAMOA’s board meeting in Honiara. SIBC’s Shortland Island stringer John Kotaru reported a Chief Bernard Otuana of Samanavua village, as saying the meeting should be held in…
A hazard mapping training is currently underway at the Komporo Early childhood school in North Guadalcanal. The training is the first of a seven-month project under the Disaster Risk Education and Emergency Project belonging to Save the Children.
The Parliament has passed the Political Parties Integrity Bill 2014 late Tuesday evening. The Bill which is now an Act provides for the Registration, Administration, and Development of Political Parties.
A total of 10 Bills has been passed in the current sitting of Parliament, as of yesterday. These include the Magistrates’ Courts Amendment Bill, the Criminal Procedure Code Amendment Bill and the 2013 Supplementary Appropriation Bill.
A young man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a man with a screwdriver. The stabbing took place at Lungga in February, 2010. On the night of February 10 that year, the deceased and his brother took a taxi from the China Town bus-stop and headed East to Henderson.
Fiji has edged ahead with her third straight victory at this week’s OFC Under 20 Championship in Suva, Fiji. Fiji eked out a 3-0 victory over a defiant Papua New Guinea side in the Match Day 3 opener yesterday.
The Parliamentary Opposition has announced its MPs are boycotting the Committee stage deliberations of the 2014 Political Parties Integrity Bill. The boycott is being blamed on the Speaker of Parliament, Sir Allan Kemakeza, whom the Opposition says is rushing through the clauses of the bill and…
Around 2-hundred secondary school students across the country have benefited from a government donation of agriculture equipment and tools. A Government statement says the project is worth over 12-million Solomon dollars and involves distributing pre-packed agriculture equipment and tools,…
One hundred and 30 young people of Naro to Vata communities in North West Guadalcanal have received the sacrament of confirmation over the weekend, at the Visale Parish.
