Prime Minister Derek Sikua of Solomon Islands
Sikua is from Ngalitavethi Village in Guadalcanal Province.
After Sogavare was defeated on December 13, 2007 in a motion of no-confidence, which was put forward by Sikua, Sikua was the opposition's candidate to replace him.
Prime Minister Derek Sikua has said legislature is a crucial arm of government in parliamentary democracies.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Derek Sikua has been found not guilty of a drink-driving charge.
Sikua is in New Zealand for three days, his first official visit offshore just a month after becoming Prime Minister.
Communications Unit Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet P O Box G1 Honiara, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has been found innocent of a drink-driving charge against him at the Honiara Magistrate Court today.
Dr Sikua was arrested in early 2006, prior to his election as a member of parliament.
Derek Sikua says he wants to see that dialogue regarding Fijis situation continues.
In a press conference in Honiara last week, Dr Sikua said the Pacific Island Leaders Forum would meet by the end of the year to review.
Prime Minister, Dr Derek Sikua has assured the New Zealand-Pacific Business Council in Auckland that his Government will prioritize reforms that will create friendly business and investment environments for foreign investors wanting to invest in Solomon Islands.
Islands Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has reiterated the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) is a partnership between Solomon Islands and the participating Pacific Island Forum countries, the Pacnews reported on Tuesday.
Solomons Prime Minister Derek Sikua has remained silent as to whether Marau will be sacked.
Prime Minister Derek Sikua has said that peace and reconciliation will continue to be his government's number one priority in 2009.
Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has declared that all Members of Parliament forfeit their entitlements during this current special adjournment of parliament.
Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua says Solomon Islands can make a turn around in its developments based on basic morality and goodness restored in the seven areas of the society.
Prime Minister Derek Sikua has said that as a Christian nation, Solomon Islands believes that God has the answers to the challenges it faces.
Speaking at a special motion to adjourn the current sitting of parliament to 5th March 2009, Dr Derek Sikua said government will continue with its reconciliation activities in 2009.
Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has informed Parliament of the progress to establish a Commission of Inquiry into Land Dealings on Guadalcanal during and after the ethnic crisis.
Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua says the government is prepared to help the national broadcaster.
Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua says it is important to appreciate the significance and importance and contribution of an important institution as the National Parliament.
The Prime Minister, Doctor Derek Sikua had held fruitful discussion along those lines with the leaders of Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and other members.
Solomon Islands has a shortage of lawyers and Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua says this will persist until 2010.
Meanwhile, Dr Sikua says the permission to allow the new airline to operate two flights a week between Brisbane and Honiara.
Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua says the Taiwan funded Rural Constituency Development Fund is a gesture of friendship meant to improve the welfare and livelihood of rural dwellers in Solomon Islands and should be.
Dr Derek Sikua has a reputation for hard work, personal integrity and a passion for policy all of which seems completely out of character with his most recent predecessors.
In his acceptance speech outside Parliament following his victory, the newly elected Prime Minister Sikua said he was humbled by the trust which Parliament had placed on him as the nation's prime minister.
Solomon Islands Foreign Affairs Minister, William Haomae has described a media report that Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua had snubbed Rudd as fabricated lies.
Haomae said that the story is totally misleading and that it was not true that Prime Minister Sikua had caused a diplomatic embarrassment for allegedly failing to turn up for his Australian Counterpart Kevin Rudd's speech at the recent United Nations General Assembly Meeting in New York.
Rudd arrived to address the General Assembly Prime Minister Sikua was attending another bilateral meeting held by the Fiji Mission with other neighboring countries to talk about the political situation in Fiji with the Fiji Interim Prime Minister Commodore Bainimarama.
Speaking in Honiara in a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Sikua said the South Pacific country had not sent a representative to the IWC.
Dr Sikua said that the Opposition Leader Manasseh Sogavare governed for two years but only created crisis after crisis for the nation.
He alleged Dr Sikua failed to properly rehabilitate victims of the April 2007 tsunami as promisedHe alleged Dr Sikua was unable to solve the Our Telekom strike saga, which left people badly affected.
Dr Sikua said that he is surprised the questions about this were not raised during the recent tabling of the supplementary budget bill.
Derek Sikua, left, is declared the winner of the vote for prime minister by Solomon Islands Governor-General Nathaniel Waena in Honiara yesterday.
Sikua pledged yesterday to soothe ties with Canberra by sending controversial Attorney-General Julian Moti back to Australia to face child sex charges.
But Sikua said he wanted to visit Canberra early in the new year and would improve relations with RAMSI.
The article noted that, “Prior to his arrival in Australia, Solomon Islands’ Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua had made it clear the trip’s purpose was to mend the fractured relationship between the two countries.
Derek Sikua was subsequently elected as the new PM.
A career bureaucrat, Sikua was elected to parliament in the April 2006 general elections, in which voters decisively rejected pro-RAMSI candidates.
Sikua was Sogavare’s education and human resources development minister until last November, when he resigned citing the Moti affair as damaging the Solomons’ international relations.
Opposition candidate Derek Sikua has won a leadership ballot in the Solomons Parliament by 32 votes to 15.
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counterpart Kevin Rudd in Canberra today.
is firmly committed to normalizing that relationship.
Derek Sikua was sworn in by Governor General Nathaniel Waena on Thursday and his new cabinet is expected to be named and sworn in Friday.
Prime Minister Derek Sikua has congratulated Barack Obama, the President-Elect of the United States of America for winning the presidential election on November 4.
In a letter to Obama today, Dr Sikua says it is with immense pleasure that the government and people of Solomon Islands join him in conveying the deepest and heartfelt congratulations on his historic election as President-Elect of the USA.
Prime Minister Sikua says Mr Obama's election comes at an important juncture when the world is facing so many challenges from climate change to financial crisis.
Dr Sikua says towards this end, Solomon Islands looks to Mr Obama's leadership with hope and confidence he will address these challenges and redefine the US relations with the Pacific region and Solomon Islands.
Dr Sikua says Solomon Islands reaffirms its keenness to strengthen and expand cooperation between the two countries on issues of mutual interest for the benefit of the people.
Prime Minister Sikua said he looked forward to working closely with the Cook Islands on issues of concern to the region.
Former education minister Derek Sikua was elected as new prime minister of the Solomon Islands on Thursday.
Sikua said he would apologise for Sogavare's boycott of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting in Tonga last year and for the fiasco caused by former Solomons attorney-general Julian Moti.
Sikua was elected prime minister last month following Sogavare's ouster from the top job in a parliamentary no-confidence vote.
Following his PNG visit, Sikua is expected to fly to Canberra to meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Dr Sikua has told political and civil leaders, he wants to end the political infighting, ethnic disputes, an economic mismanagement and corruption that have been a feature of the nation since independence.
Meanwhile, Dr Sikua has laid out the plan his government would use to implement its policies and reforms.
Sikua was backed by opposition groups who last week secured the numbers to topple former prime minister Manasseh Sogavare in a no-confidence motion in the nation's parliament.
Sikua said he would announce his ministers on Friday.
Derek Sikua was elected Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands today.
Sikua has only been in parliament for a year and a half, and served as education minister in the Sogavare government before defecting in November.
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of Parliament have been paid SB$150,000 each.
some MPs who had paid the freight charges themselves.
attempt to keep the CNURA grouping together.
In response, Prime Minister Derek Sikua described the visit by the Cook Islands to the FFA headquarters as historic.
Opposition candidate Sikua was elected by legislators earlier in the day under tight security following last weekâs ousting of controversial leader Manasseh Sogavare.
Sikua said his new cabinet would make a formal decision on how Moti would be sent back to Australia when it meets at the weekend.
NEW Solomons Islands Prime Minister Derek Sikua has pledged full support for the Australian-led law and order mission in his country, saying the previous government worked hard to undermine its work.
DrSikua is on a fence-mending tour to Papua New Guinea, that will also take him to Canberra for talks with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Wednesday.
Dr Sikua said Mr Sogavare's administration had been intent on attacking the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomons Islands, led by Australia and comprising regional forces, including from PNG.
Dr Sikua said he hoped his meeting with Mr Rudd would help repair relations between the two countries.
Prime Minister Dr Sikua has nothing to apologise for, MrSogavare said.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Derek Sikua has told ABC Radio's Sunday Profile programme, the guest worker scheme is very important to his country.
Dr Sikua said Australia had indicated it would have a response on the issue when the Pacific Islands Forum meets in August.
Meanwhile, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Derek Sikua said he would like to see Australia's Regional Assistance Mission (RAMSI) in his country continue for the next decade.
Dr Sikua said the success of the multi-nation mission would be judged by the ability of Solomon Islanders to govern themselves once the mission leaves.
SIBC News, December 17, 2008 - Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has informed Parliament of the progress to establish a Commission of Inquiry into Land Dealings on Guadalcanal during and after the ethnic crisis.
Speaking in Parliament, Dr Derek Sikua said regional neighbouring countries have been asked to assist.