UNAPPROVED ENTRY OF 4 CITIZENS TO SOLOMON ISLANDS ON 20 AUGUST
QUESTIONS have been posed to the Press Office of the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet late Friday 20 August 2021] alleging that a passenger flight arrived the previous day [Thursday 19 August 2021] and asked why the government went back on its words to allow the passenger flight. There was no approved incoming passenger flight to the country on Thursday as alleged. The government approved a chartered repatriation flight that arrived on Friday morning, 20 th August 2021], from Papua New Guinea to repatriate 63 Indonesian nationals from Solomon Islands to Indonesia via Port Moresby. Unfortunately, 4 Solomon Island citizens being the dependents of the late Solomon Islands High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, who had been stranded in Port Moresby and were not able to travel on the charter flight that repatriated the late High Commissioner due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, decided on their own accord and against government advise to board the Friday morning flight. A total of 5...