Derek Sikua News

Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua last night has praised the Republic of China, Taiwan for its growing investment in Solomon Islands.

United States has pledged its support for the Government's current commitment to peace and reconciliation in Solomon Islands.

The ANZ bank has allegedly blocked 100,000 US dollars of Iranian funding to Solomon Islands, earmarked for 25 students to fly to Cuba to become doctors.

An Israeli foreign ministry official is arriving in Honiara to seek an explanation as to why it was the only country in Oceania to vote at the UN for the Goldstone report condemning Israel's assault on Gaza.

The Republic of China and Solomon Islands governments have this morning signed in Parliament an agreement for a new Parliament Complex Building.

Prime Minister Dr Sikua and his family were the first citizens entered in the census register as counting gets underway across the country for the housing and the population census.

The government has paid the first instalment of compensation to Our Telekom. Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua says that out of the total 108-million dollars compensation, the government was obligated to pay $24-million dollars last week.

The Republic of China today formally released an SB$8 million payment to assist the Solomon Islands government compensate Our Telekom to enable the company relinquish its monopoly license.

Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has said Gold Ridge Mining will be one of the largest private sector projects in the country once operational.

Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua says his government is very pleased with the high court ruling quashing the 2009 Parliamentary Entitlements and that the matter should now be laid to rest.

Prime Minister, Dr Derek Sikua has told students of Selwyn College in Northwest Guadalcanal that education will soon become a right rather than a privilege as at present in Solomon Islands.

Government is setting up a special working committee to raise the level of Solomon Islands' ranking in a survey by the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.

HONIARA a ' The University of Papua New Guinea Open Campus in Honiara, which is gaining popularity among Solomon Islanders seeking further education, will launch its programs today.

The Solomon Islands Prime Minister has pledged to work closely with the Papua New Guinea Government in bringing about peace and normalcy on Bougainville Island.

The prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare will arrive today for a three-day visit to Honiara.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama met with the three visiting Prime Ministers this morning to talk about Fiji's progress.

Three Prime Ministers from the region will be in Suva tomorrow for the launch of a major biography of Fiji's late founding father, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.

Pacific leaders are descending on Fiji for an urgent summit to resolve issues of what to do when a world leader is stuck in the rough, not diplomatically, but on the golf course.

The Solomon Islands High Court says a final decision has yet to be made in a defamation case involving the prime minister, the secretary to cabinet and the Island Sun newspaper.