BY ALEX DADAMU PACIFIC Meteorological Desk Partnership at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has confirmed the arrival of La Niña in the Pacific. Whilst the impacts of La Niña will vary from country to country, Solomon…
BY MIKE TUA THE COVID-19 global pandemic has allowed Solomon Islands including regional aspiring and experienced journalists to connect using the ‘Zoom’ – an online platform for this year’s Pacific Islands Climate Outlook Forum virtual media workshop. The four-day virtual…
BY ALEX DADAMU WHILE the country is fighting the war against the Coronavirus Pandemic, an environmental health issue that has been around for quite sometimes now and has become an eye-sore to suburbs in and around Honiara City is the…
BY JOHN CHRISMA ITS official – Solomon Island National University’s Panatina Campus – single ablution block has been described by a student as bad and smelly; needing urgent attention. A concerned student, Margret Aumamua said that recently the situation is…
BY JOHN CHRISMA FIBREGLASS boat builder encourages fishermen and other fiberglass boat owners in the Solomon Islands that old broken fiberglass boats are still useful if repaired and to decrease littering and contaminating our coastlines. Over the years, Business owner…
BY JOHN CHRISMA TO make sure our roads are safe and efficient for all road users; Lee Kwok Kuen Company recently resealed more than 20km of feeder roads access across the Henderson area through its road repair and maintenance works…
BY ALEX DADAMU CLIMATE change was never a priority for the government for many years under normal conditions and now under COVID pressures, climate considerations have been almost totally forgotten, says Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Hon. Matthew Wale. Hon.…
BY AGNES MENANOPO HAILING from Western Province in the Solomon Islands, Steneth Kaniki will now join forces with aspiring environmental lawyers wishing to tackle environmental legal challenges, risks, and issues in the country. Steneth is currently the Project Coordinator of the…
BY JOHN CHRISMA – FREELANCE LOCAL market vendors are very concerned about the lack of quality water and sanitation due to the closure of the water supply and ablution block facility at the designated Kukum Market in Honiara. The vendors’…
BY JOHN CHRISMA – FREELANCE JOURNALIST LOCAL cash crop farmers from the New Zealand Camp, Bloody Ridge Community of Central Guadalcanal are currently very worried over the continuing unstable rainy pattern which severely affected their garden produce over the past…
BY AGNES MENANOPO ACCORDING to a study by the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, Disaster Management (MECDM), South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB), as of 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019, Solomon Islands have waste made up…
BY JOY OFASIA YOUNG Women Christian Association (YWCA) has recognized the importance and opportunities for its members to protect the environment by turning waste into useful products. Women and young girls have now work on cycling paper and fabric, and…
