Overseas journalists banned
Quoting the Solomon Star newspaper � 21 March 2019
�INTERNATIONAL journalists were banned from covering and entering the oil spill site and the wrecked MV Solomon Trader in Rennell Island, Wedesday.
�Reliable sources told the Solomon Star that it was believed that orders to stop the journalists came from Honiara and a few people on the ground on Rennell who are agents of Bintan Mining Company.
�The international journalists were from New Zealand TV 3 who are currently covering the current oil spill effects in Rennell.
�The MV Solomon Trader had been loading bauxite from a mine on the island in the days before Cyclone Oma pushed it aground on a coral reef, in the early hours of 5 February.
�Our source told this paper that whilst the journalists should be allowed to do their work they also need to be aware of our country�s media regulation.
�But according to the Government Communication Unit Director George Herming he denied having aware of this incident.�
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