BY TAVAKE SIMON HANA’AROA FOLLOWING his short visit to the national parliament on Monday, the Prince of Wales made a remarkable speech before the house on environment and biodiversity. He said the Solomon Islands are blessed with astonishingly high levels…
THE Arnavons Community Marne Park (ACMP) Management Committee had its final board meeting for this year in Honiara. On Friday 23rd November, the board consists of eight community representatives, The Nature Conservancy Country Director (Willie Atu) and ACMP Coordinator had…
DATA from Solomon Islands National Statistics Office, Ministry of Finance and Treasury, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock reported an estimated agricultural value of SBD$21.5 million was incurred due to the impacts of climatic change and natural disasters nationwide. The substantial…
BY AGNES MENANOPO KOLOALE Community High School has currently engaged with the plastic waste management project initiated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through its Waste Management Innovation Initiative. The initiative which aims to improve and encourage waste management…
BY AGNES MENANOPO LOCAL aspiring beauty pageant contestant, Ms. Tiare Haro has underlined her strongest ambitions to advocate on the relevant issues affecting women and climate change in the Solomon Islands. Miss Super Star Corporation, Ms. Haro confirmed that her…
BY AGNES MENANOPO GUADALCANAL Provincial Government leaders have acknowledged the efforts made towards the completion and launching of the Barana Nature and Heritage Park and Environment and Resilience Centre at Barana Community. Supervising Provincial Secretary, Timothy Ngele said these initiatives…
BY AGNES MENANOPO WITH the goal of promoting reducing plastic waste, the Saint Nicholas College in Honiara is participating in waste management innovation initiative’s schools rethinking plastic trial. The 10-week trial is testing refundable-fee scheme and discount scheme interventions…
BY STONGIM BISNIS THE Australian Government initiative Strongim Bisnis joined an Australian High Commission delegation on a field visit to Biosecurity Solomon Islands’ (BSI) facilities in and around Honiara on 24th July. The Australian delegation was headed by His…
BY JAYJAY MESAAC TOURISM is one of the industries that can help the country to achieve the economic, environmental and social aims because it is a green industry said Leonard Lavea a Solomon Islands student currently undertaking Technology and communication…
BY AGNES MENANOPO JOHN Houkarawa is a professional panpipe artist who has the passion of preserving his Are’ are culture and tradition through playing panpipe. He, therefore, wants to look after bamboo trees, which panpipes are made out of and…
BY AGNES MENANOPO SENIOR officers from the Ministry of Agriculture And Livestock have previously undergone a training workshop intended to identify policy gaps and opportunities in Solomon Islands agricultural sector. The workshop was held at the Iron Bottom Sound Conference…
BY AGNES MENANOPO A number of schools and institutions, teachers and farmers have shown interest in Chocolate production by taking part in local chocolate making training in Honiara as part of the recent SolChoc Festival in July. The training aimed…