SOLOMON FOCUS

SOLOMON Islands now recorded its third confirmed case of COVID-19. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare made this announcement today. He said he is relieved that only one new case was confirmed when the number could have been higher. Sogavare says a major constraint faced by the Oversight Committee and camp management is to secure adequate  facilities to ensure the students have individual rooms. “However we have managed to secure some additional facilities. Our health team has conducted an in depth risk assessment to the student today. Those students who are considered low risk will move to the additional facilities to complete their quarantine there. Chengs quarantine station will either remain the main quarantine station for our students”. He says community transmission remains low and the COVID-19 outbreak is being contained. He says the students in quarantine stations are also taking their responsibility seriously. Meanwhile four more Solomon Islands students were confirmed in the...

CHAIRMAN of the Electoral Commission, Mr. Patteson John Oti in a statement assured constituents from North East Guadalcanal and Central Honiara Constituencies that preparations for the conduct of the two by-elections on November 18, are well underway.   Nominations had closed on Wednesday, 7 October, and the Electoral Office is well into preparation for ballot papers printing, conduct of pre-polling and the conduct of the election proper on November 18. In 2019 National General Election, voter turnout for Central Honiara and North East Guadalcanal were 75 percent and 92 percent respectively. The Electoral Commission is doing everything it can to ensure that the same level of voters, if not higher, participated in the upcoming two by-elections.  Mr. Oti, is encouraging registered voters in the two constituencies to come forward and exercise their rights to choose the most suitable person to represent her or him in Parliament. “It is crucially important that voters in...