17 years on after the current Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare took to the podium of the United Nations to call for donor support for the Provincial Capacity Development Fund (PCDF) initiative; people are now benefiting from small infrastructure projects, thanks to the PCDF. The PCDF is responsible for over 294 small infrastructure projects across…
Today, the United States—through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)—presented state-of-the-art seismometers to monitor the potentially dangerous Savo Volcano in Solomon Islands. The equipment was procured after an official request from the Solomon Islands government Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification (MMERE) to the U.S. government to supplement the…
The Solomon Islands Government is confident to deliver the 2023 Pacific Games as scheduled regardless of the challenges generated by covid-19 in the country. This followed detailed presentations on work progresses to the Prime Minister and Caucus Wednesday this week by the National Hosting Authority (NHA) with its respective Committees. Committees that made presentations on…
Members of the public who have constantly practiced healthy safe measures against covid-19 have been applauded for their contribution towards the decline in covid cases in Honiara city and some parts of the country. Most recent data had indicated a declining trend in positive cases, which shows a slowdown in community transmission mostly in Honiara…
Officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) at Buala Police Station in Isabel Province have arrested and remanded two-murder suspects recently. Acting Director National Criminal Investigation Department (NCID), Superintendent Michael Bole says, “Both male suspects are in their 20s and the deceased in this case a 17-years-old male person.” Acting Director Superintendent Bole…
The Office of the Prime minister & Cabinet this week hosted to a presentation by the Fotana Tribal Land Trust board on the “East Fataleka Industrial Development Plan” a 50 year Action Plan aimed at the creation of a peaceful, harmonious and progressive community to improve the socio and economic livelihood of the people of…
COMMUNITY leaders in Malaita Province have acknowledged Red Cross for their fight against the Covid 19 by continuing to deliver COVID awareness to the communities. It was reported that despite the high risk of COVID 19 community transmission in the province, a hard working volunteer team from Red Cross in Malaita has managed to reach…
THE Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, His Excellency (H.E) Moses Kaul has vented his frustration against an article on Dr Maine Asapo, published in the Island Sun newspaper, Wednesday. It was claimed in the article that Asapo said he is seeking legal advice with the intention to take the Solomon Islands…
It was 3:30 in the early morning of February 24th, 2022 when staff of the Chinese Embassy in Solomon Islands received an urgent phone call from Mr. Li Zhi, Captain of a fishing boat operating in the waters southwest of Solomon Islands. Captain Li (pictured above) told the Embassy that he was from Fujian province…
OF all passenger shipping vessels servicing Malaita Province, MV Taimareho is the first passenger shipping vessel to have confirmed its resumption of service along the Honiara-Auki route. Many Malaitans who have been stranded in Honiara for the past two months since the declaration of covid-19 community transmission in the country which leads to the restriction…