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By RONALD TOITO’ONA The Solomon Islands National Provident Fund (SINPF) has declared a 4% crediting rate to its members for the 2023-24 financial year – 2 per cent down from last year’s 6%. A total of $128,726,582 will be paid to its over 248,000 members starting today. The announcement was made…
Taking a step toward enhancing education infrastructure in Solomon Islands, Lambi Community High School celebrated the official handover of its newly constructed double-storey classroom building. The project, valued at approximately SBD$2 million, was jointly funded by the Australian and New Zealand governments in partnership with the Solomon Islands Ministry of…
Solomon Islands has joint forces with World leaders calling for urgent high-level action to address global scourge of Antimicrobial resistance, AMR. Solomon Islands is represented at a ‘High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance’ at the 79 thsession of the United Nations General Assembly by the Minister of Health and Medical Services,…
by Ednal Palmer The Solomon Islands National University (SINU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Transform Aqorau has challenged staff and students of the country’s national university to embrace change and grow the institution. Speaking to mark SINU’s open day today, Professor Transform said the Open day is not just a showcase of the…
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in partnership with the Government of the Solomon Islands is moving forward with efforts to develop the country’s tourism industry. A statement from MCC coinciding with today’s World Tourism Day, says a recent meeting in Honiara by the MCC-Solomon Islands Threshold Program (SITHP) Tourism Investment…
People in the provincial capital of Malaita Province, Auki in Solomon Islands andsurrounding communities will now be able to hear the national service of the SolomonIslands Broadcasting Corporation on its FM 96.3 frequency on their transistor radios,inside their vehicles and on their mobile phones.This follows the installation of an FM96.3…
Jeremy Gwao, a distinguished multimedia journalist from Solomon Islands, was recently selected to join a cohort of Pacific content creators in the Australia-led Pacific Climate Media and Traditional Knowledge project in Vanuatu. This initiative, led by Australia through ABC International Development, aims to amplify climate storytelling and foster collaboration between…
Police say they have arrested a man from North Malaita who allegedly hit and killed a female university student with his vehicle at the Panatina campus bus stop in east Honiara, yesterday. The Solomon Islands National University (SINU) 21-year-old student from Isabel Province was crossing the road on her way…
Solomon Islands National University (SINU) acknowledges the concerns raised by Dr. Derek Sikua, former Prime Minister and former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, regarding the establishment and conferral of its first PhD degree. Professor Aqorau said that “while we respect Dr. Sikua’s long-standing contributions to the education sector,…
Economic and financial constraints, followed closely by social, cultural, and political pressures, pose the greatest threats to media freedom in the Pacific, according to the inaugural Pacific Islands Media Freedom Index (PIMFI) report, For Us, By Us, About Us. Published by the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF), a coalition of…
