LEADER of Opposition Hon Matthew Wale has questioned why GNUT is abetting Wan Chen Company in building a warehouse to be rented by a Chinese SOE.GNUT, along with the Finance Minister, has granted exemptions worth 29M for Wan Chen to build the warehouse project. This new Warehouse will be rented to BNBM Company, a new […]
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Twenty senior government officials from across the Solomon Islands Government recently attended the Master of Business Administration (MBA) short course in Australia to enhance their leadership and management skills. This is the third cohort from Solomon Islands that Australia has supported this year. To date, officials from 15 national and provincial government agencies have participated
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A TOTAL of $199M discretionary exemptions from January to end of September 2024 were granted by the Minister of Finance to individuals and companies, the Opposition Office has learnt. Opposition Leader Hon Matthew Wale has lashed out at this new information describing it as ‘outrageous and reckless’.This new information has come to light after a
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Prime Minister Hon. Jeremiah Manele MP and Madam Manele were honored to attend the main Sunday worship at Transfiguration, (Vura) Parish, this morning. In his brief remarks, PM Manele expressed his gratitude to the Parish Chair Mr. Robert Iroga and church leadership for the kind invitation and welcome. Reflecting on the sermon, the Prime Minister
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Solomon Islands and the Federal Republic of Germany have renewed their commitments to further enhance and deepen bilateral relations with each other. A courtesy meeting between Prime Minister Hon. Jeremiah Manele MP and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Solomon Islands, Her Excellency Beate Grzeski affirmed, Solomon Islands and Germany not only share
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In recent days, the leader of Opposition Hon. MP Wale has released three leaked documents that have created widespread public anger. The documents, detailing tax exemptions totaling over SBD 30 million, reveal that two foreign-owned companies—Wan Chen Company Limited and Nature Product Limited (including its motel)—were granted tax exemptions by the government. “The worse thing
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The Leader of Opposition Hon. Matthew Wale has slammed GNUT’s $29M tax exemption to Wan Chen Company Limited, calling it a blatant betrayal of the people of Solomon Islands.Latest documents obtained by the Opposition Office have revealed that two exemptions were granted to Wan Chen Company; $19, 970, 114.17 and $9, 310, 076. 54. The
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The Solomon Islands and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) today, Thursday 7th November officially signed an agreement on Mutual Visa Exemption for ordinary passports holders from both countries to travel freely. The signing ceremony between the Solomon Islands Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Hon. Peter Shanel Agovaka, and PRC Ambassador, His Excellency
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LEADER of Opposition Hon Matthew Wale has questioned why discretionary exemptions have continued to be granted despite assurances by the Minister of Finance in Parliament to cancel past exemptions and halt future ones as of June 2024. In a statement today, Hon Wale said the Finance Minister was very animated in making this announcement in
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Two accomplished journalists from the Solomon Islands, Ulutah Gina of Solomon Star and Mavis Podokolo of Island Sun, have been selected to be among a distinguished group of six journalists across the Pacific region under the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS) to work at a Country Press Australia newspaper for two weeks in a regional
