Having successfully launched its ‘Keep the Solomon Islands Tidy’ campaign with two high profile clean-up operations in Honiara, the Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) ‘Green Team’ has now taken its message online with the help of two local schoolgirls. Posted this week on the SIVB facebook page (www.facebook.com/visitsolomonislands) the 30-second clip entitled ‘Our Home –…
A visiting Guadalcanal villager, Professor Rughu Poli has expressed surprise the Solomon Islands capital city of Honiara does not have public toilets. He said before the country gained its independence from Britain 36 years ago, Honiara did have public toilets. Mr Poli said it appears people use the beach or bush, but that practice is…
The People’s Alliance Party (PAP) has assured the Kiribati descendants in Solomon Islands that an Alliance Party Government will not marginalize them. The assurance was made on Sunday in an awareness meeting PAP executives held with the United Church community at White River, West Honiara. Members of the Kiribati-Tuvalu United Church community were anxious that…
Senior representatives of the Solomon Islands Government met with Australian High Commissioner Andrew Byrne and his team for High Level Development Talks last week. The talks are an annual meeting between the Australian and Solomon Islands governments to discuss their work together in delivering effective development assistance for Solomon Islands. Talks covered a range of…
Visale community high school in North West Guadalcanal received two laptops from Taiwanese volunteers last week. The gift was part of building relationship with people of Solomon Islands and assisting the school. Speaking on behalf of the Taiwanese students Zuyang Weing said they were pleased to assist the students and their school. She said they…
Reports of heavy duty mining vehicles arriving on our shores IS the environmentally hazardous bauxite mining ready to roll in the Solomon Islands? This was the question most lingering in many people’s lips following reports of number of heavy duty vehicles intended for mining exercises on Rennell Island, Renbel province arriving on our shores the…
A security officer has been remanded in custody yesterday following the alleged armed robbery of the ANZ automatic teller machine at Kwaimani building on Saturday night. Joe Silas of SAM WIKI security firm will appear again in the Honiara Magistrate Court again on August 11. He was charged with one count of armed robbery. This…
The Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Tuiloma Neroni Slade says the suspension of Fiji from the 16 member group was a ‘traumatic’ experience for member countries. “Suspending a member has never happened before and I hope it will never happen again, said Slade. “Leaders need to finalise the situation and come to…
The head of the Pacific Islands Forum has suggested the region’s foreign ministers could be tasked with deciding whether to lift the suspension of Fiji’s membership. Speaking ahead of the Forum leaders’ summit in Palau, Secretary-General Tuiloma Neroni Slade told the ABC the Ministerial Contact Group could monitor Fiji’s elections in September and then make…
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully will lead the New Zealand delegation to the 45rd Pacific Islands Forum in Palau on behalf of Prime Minister John Key this week. “The Forum is the foremost annual meeting of Pacific leaders and I am honoured to be representing the Prime Minister at this event,” McCully says. “The…