AS the demand for chilli canned tuna products continue to rise, so does its production. Because of this high demand, the SolTuna Fishing and Processing Company Limited based in Noro, New Georgia, Western Province, is keen to buy dried chilli fruits from farmers in the province. In a public notice issued in the past weeks,…
THE presence of the Solomon Islands Pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai from October 2021 to April 2022, has left a lasting impression for the various companies and organisations that established business relations in the areas of Tourism, Green Energy, Medicine, Aviation and Trade and Economic Development to name a few. One of…
Members of the business community were part of the Sol2023 Pacific Games Organizing Committee’s (GOC) series of events over the weekend to mark one year to go before the opening ceremony of the 17th Pacific Games here in Honiara on 19 November 2023. This was during a Business After 5 networking with the Solomon Islands…
PRIME Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has commended the Young Entrepreneurs Council of Solomon Islands (YECSI) for its pivotal role in promoting productivity among the country’s young population. Mr Sogavare was chief guest at the Inaugural YECSI Awards Event hosted at the Pacific Casino Hotel on Thursday where he had the opportunity to witness YECSI’s commitment in…
EXCITEMENT and expressions of jubilation echoed through Gizo harbor as ‘MV Pelican 96’ successfully made its first mid-week trip to the Western Provincial capital main Gizo wharf on Wednesday evening. A sizeable number of people turned up to witness its safe arrival to mark the start of its twice weekly trip to the province. This…
B-17 Dive & Beach Bungalows and Strongim Bisnis together with the Australia High Commission recently hosted a roundtable discussion on opportunities for the Solomon Islands tourism sector. A visiting delegation of New South Wales parliamentarians joined members of the tourism sector and the Solomon Islands Government for the discussion. The event also celebrated the ongoing…
INFLATION has been a major issue in the Pacific and has risen to historically high levels in some countries in the region. This was discussed in the 37th South Pacific Central Bank Governor’s Meeting (SPCBGM) hosted by the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu in Port Vila from November 3-4, 2022. The meeting was convened under the…
TOURISM Solomons certainly isn’t wasting any time in its efforts to reinstate the Solomon Islands profile on the world travel stage. Just weeks after the country reopened its borders, after more than 800 days cut off from the rest of the world, the national tourist office has moved quickly to reignite its International Media Visitation…
Visit by the Switzerland-based Glencore PLC to Kolosori is dubbed a good economic news for the country PACIFIC Nickel Mines Ltd’s multi-million dollar investment in the rich Kolosori nickel deposit on Isabel may have attracted the world’s largest commodity trader to Solomon Islands. A team from the Switzerland-based Glencore Public Limited Company [PLC] slipped in…
Solomon Islands can learn a lot from the South African country of Botswana in economic development. Formerly one of the world’s poorest countries in the late 1960s, Botswana with a population of around 2.6 million people is now transformed into an upper-middle-income country, with one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare…