The Household Income and Expenditure Survey, HIES, 2024-2025 has progressed well through-out the country after its first week of commencement on Monday 21st October 2024. The twelve-month survey involves approximately 4,700 households selected within nominated Enumerated Areas, (EA) throughout the country, with the aim to collect information, mainly on household income and expenditure. Most of the…
ROYAL Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) has established a taskforce to investigate allegations of abductions and associated gender-based violence. The taskforce consists of detectives from Central CID, Naha CID and NCID who are actively reviewing all incoming leads and engaging with members of the community who may have information to assist Police activities. This is…
THE Asian Development Bank (ABD) is supporting the Western Provincial Government (WPG) to address the ongoing challenges of landfill and solid waste management in Gizo, Munda and Noro. Western Province Premier Billy Veo highlighted this at the opening of the Full Assembly Meeting on Monday 28th October. “Through the assistance of the Asian Development Bank, we…
MPs may get half a billion dollar each in CDF grants in 2025, a decision that will be nothing less than devastating THE Government for National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) is believed to be considering beefing up the voter-focused Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to a record half a billion dollars in 2025, insiders have revealed.…
THE European Union’s Ambassador to the Pacific, Barbara Plinkert was due to arrive in Honiara on Friday to present her credentials to the Governor General Reverend David Tiva Kapu, the EU Suva Office announced on Wednesday 30 October. The visit is said to be Ambassador Plinkert’s first to the region. Following the ceremony at Government House,…
THE Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Peter Shanel Agovaka, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and other Pacific leaders gathered on Friday 25 October to mark the first deployment of the new Pacific Police Support Group, part of the Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI), backed by Australia and endorsed by Pacific Island Forum leaders in…
THE Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management, and Meteorology (MECDM), Minister Trevor Manemahaga will lead a delegation of 37 representatives to COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) is scheduled to take place from November 11 to 22. MECDM Deputy Secretary Chanel Iroi…
THE Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL), Dr Samson Viulu has announced that his ministry is working on a new overall Agricultural Sector Development Policy based on the existing agriculture sector growth strategy and investment plan launched in 2021. Dr Viulu made the announcement on Wednesday 30 October at the…
JOASH Tuai from Malaita Province has commended the Environment and Conservation Division (ECD) of the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) for the internship program under the Pacific Litter Project (POLP). Tuai and four others have been graduated by Australia and ECD with certificates for completing their intern program under POLP…
WORLD Food Day is a time to be reminded about the kind of food we should eat daily. That’s the view of Julia Hara, a student at the Solomon Islands National University (SINU) who is currently undertaking her Bachelor of Teaching Home Economics (In service). She added the World Food Day 2024 last week and…