D.C.C DISHED OUT $225,000 PRIZE TO 2015 S.P.G MEDAL WINNERS
![Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Douglas Ete, right, with triple gold medalist Sharon Firisua at the awards night at Honiara Hotel. Photo credit: OPMC.](http://sibconline.com.sb/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Deputy-Prime-Minister-and-Home-Affairs-Minister-Douglas-Ete-right-with-triple-gold-medalist-Sharon-Firisua-at-the-awards-night-at-Honiara-Hotel.1-420x344.png)
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Douglas Ete, right, with triple gold medalist Sharon Firisua at the awards night at Honiara Hotel. Photo credit: OPMC.
The Democratic Coalition for Change Government has dished out a total of $225,000 in cash prize money to medal winners of the recent Pacific Games.
Gold medal winners received $10,000 for a medal, silver medallists received $7,500 and bronze medal winners received $5,000.
The cash prizes were handed out to the medallists at a special Government function for the Solomon Islands Pacific Games contingent at the Honiara Hotel last night.
Team Solomon won a total of 28 medals at the Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea – seven gold medals, six silver medals and 15 bronze medals.