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Air Marshall Islands board of directors has endorsed a plan to offer the private sector a 51 percent controlling interest in the government-run airline, and is looking at management options available before a plan is formally put to the Cabinet for endorsement. Transportation Minister Kenneth Kedi …

The immunization is scheduled for children who have yet to complete their childhood vaccinations, such as MMR and polio. Among other services that the team will be providing to the Neighboring Islands is the Sexual Transmitted Infections Awareness Program, especially for the targeted age group of 1…

The MV Caroline Voyager is not scheduled to accommodate the needs of those participants in bringing them in to take part in the training and back again to their home islands.

In the past 20 years child mortality rates have reduced by 30 percent, far below the UN’s aim of cutting child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. Geoffrey Keele from the U.N. children’s fund, UNICEF, says most East Asian countries are on track to meet the U.N.’s targets, but Pacific nations are a con…

That’s because the latest review of the needs catering for kidney ailments has clearly determined it is not feasible to conduct in-country dialysis treatment. A New Zealand expert, Carla Wilson, was enlisted by the Ministry of Health to conduct the research and a report has been furnished to govern…

The concept was trialed at the recent Kundiawa Gembogl by-election and proved to be successful. Trawen said the returning officer for Kundiawa Gembogl had strongly recommended that the Electoral Commission adopt that and allow women to vote separately.

The draft MOU sets out arrangements for Solomon Islanders to take up seasonal work in horticulture, particularly fruit picking and other industries. Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Robert Sisilo said such arrangements fall under Australia’s Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot …

This will enable a maintenance group to clean and clear off the AM radio tower cage. This project duration should not exceed three hours, and will ultimately put the radio station back in full service as soon as all safety matters have been addressed.

After 36 years and good economic growth and healthy budgets, the nations’ health was being squandered and concentrated in the hands of a few leaders, said O’Neill. He said his government would diligently steer the country away from bankruptcy. The prime minister said his government had uncovered co…

Fotofili says Fiji is surrounded by the sea and foreigners can come in at any time through yachts and ships. Ten years after the September 11 attacks, technology has developed making contact from one place in the world to another more convenient, said Fotofili. For this reason, an integrated approa…