Derek Sikua News

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.

The government is still to appoint a new Chairperson for its Commission of Inquiry into the Russell Islands Plantation Estates Limited, RIPEL.

Papua New Guinea prime minister Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare will make an official visit to Solomon Islands from the 12 to 14th of this month, October.

The Prime Minister, Dr Derek Sikua has told a Pacific Public Service Commissioners Conference in Honiara that Solomon Islands has improved a lot since the ethnic tension period.

HONIARA a ' Former Solomon Islands Governor General Sir Baddley Devesi, one of the founding fathers of the Solomon Islands Constitution, says Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua is losing his grip on the nationa TMs leadership and should consider stepping down, according to national broadcaster, SIBC.