A COCOA Veneer seminar was successfully held recently in Honiara. It was conducted by Gregory Nolan, Associate Professor from the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood and coordinated by the Ministry of Forestry & Research, Timol Timbers and Secretariat of Pacific Community (SPC). Held at the Ministry of Forestry leaf hut, this…
A team from the Kastom Gaden Association (KGA) based in Honiara will visit Dai Island, Malaita province this weekend. The three member team will be led by KGA centre supervisor SeverinoLausaoto train farmers and villagers on organic farming, basket and back yard gardening techniques, pest and disease controlling methods and information concerning KGA programs and…
FORUM Solomon Islands International (FSII) has called on the DCC Government to immediately launch an investigation into Solomon Airlines. The call came in light of last week’s sacking of Chief Pilot Captain Gibson Galo. Mr Galo was reported to have said no reasons were given for his sacking except a stated clause 23(b) of his…
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) progressed in its commitment to bringing positive changes through a successful induction of 40 young and enthusiastic police recruits into the organisation this week. A statement from the Police Media Unit said, this recruitment program is named the Sir Albert Palmer Recruit. The naming of a recruit program…
NEGATIVE stories published by print media is one of the contributing factors to under-performance of State Owned Enterprises (SOE) in any country. That’s according to the Asian Development Bank representative and former Minister to SOE in New Zealand Richard Prebble stated. He was speaking during the SOE forum meeting organised by the Solomon Islands Government…
NO application to stay the false pretence charge against three men accused of obtaining more than $300,000 from selling fake gold bars to a former Minister in 2012 has been made so far. This is the third adjournment made due to the absence of some of the lawyers representing the accused since the court was…
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force has shown their support to unemployed youths performing their community service part of joining the popular Youth@Work programme. About 600 youths took part in a general clean-up that was held in Honiara by the Youth@Work with support from the RSIPF last Saturday and Sunday. The youths cleaned up the…
GOVERNMENT will upgrade the National Auditorium at Art Gallery at a cost of $60million and is expected to be much bigger. Art Gallery curator Brian Afia revealed this on Wednesday. The current National Art Gallery was built during the Pacific Arts Festival hosted by Solomon Islands in 2012. Mr Afia said the size of the…
REPAIR works to West Honiara roads have kicked off, a month after the cyclone Pam hit the country. Most of the roads in the city were affected during the heavy showers brought by Pam on March 13th 2015. As a result most of the roads within the city were dotted with pot holes which affected…
A JAPANESE-based project which focused on sustainable society has launched a project called ‘Learning and Ecological Activities Foundation for children’ (LEAF) program on Wednesday. It’s a two years program to be implemented in Honiara. LEAF is an environmental focus group from Japan which was established in 1998 with the aim of contributing to the development…