THE Women’s Innovation Expo (WIE) has discouraged the sale of fried food, junk food and rice while encouraging traditional dishes. This was one of the main highlight at the expo throughout this week. President of Honiara Council of Women (HCW) Martha Alacky said, this was to encourage women to revitalise the traditional local dishes from…
A TEAM of three from Family Support Centre had just completed a three days gender based violence sensitization workshop for two Provinces, Temotu and Makira. The three days program includes high school talks for senior forms, along with counselling and legal services for people in those two provinces who are not able to travel to…
THE Office of the Market Master under the Honiara City Council will kick off a vendors’ inspection at the central market soon. This is to crack down on resellers who are buying fish and market produces from genuine producers and fishermen and resell them. Market Master Saxon Ofata highlighted this on Monday when officials from…
ANZ on Wednesday announced that it will waive fees for International Money Transfers into Vanuatu, as relief efforts continue following the devastation of Tropical Cyclone Pam. The fee waiver will apply to fund transfers made before 30 April 2015 by ANZ customers in 22 countries across Australasia, Asia and the Pacific*. ANZ last week announced…
The environmental health division of the Ministry of Health and Medical service has successfully conducted a two weeks training for community WASH(Water supply, Sanitation and Hygiene) Facilitator in Guadalcanal province. Part of the training was held at Balasuna training centre and later at the Ministry’s head quarter in Honiara. The training ended last week with…
It came like a bomb, say witnesses A WELDER was killed in an explosion that threw his body up into the air at the Pacific Casino Hotel sea front in Honiara yesterday. This happened when the Malaita man and his colleague were welding an aluminum boat. They were employees of Oceanic Marine Equipment Ltd, and…
The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) is taking steps to address issues on teacher housing and travel being raised recently by the Solomon Islands National Teachers Association (SINTA). The Executive of SINTA has been informed of the actions MEHRD has already taken which SINTA has also agreed to the process. The understanding…
The Governor General Sir Frank Kabui has called on all citizens of Solomon Islands to support the Democratic Coalition for Change (DCC) Government in order to realise the change that the government wants to achieve for the country. Delivering the traditional “Speech to the Throne” to mark the opening of the 10th Parliament yesterday, Sir…
The tenth round of the PACER Plus trade negotiations due to be held this week in Port Vila, Vanuatu has been postponed due to the damaging effects of Cyclone Pam, which slammed the country fortnight ago. The meeting was expected to progress the negotiations which are in their final phase. It is now expected to…
World Vision has begun preparing relief items to distribute to families affected by the severe Tropical Cyclone Pam in Temotu Province. More than 5,000 people in Tikopia, Anuta and the Reef Islands have been affected with close to 1,500 homes damaged and livelihoods destroyed. World Vision is supporting the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) and…