CONSTRUCTION works on the access roads to the Tina River Hydropower Development Project (TRHDP) dam site (Lot 2-2) and power station (Lot 3-1) is progressing, despite initial delays which included clearance of the final set of Construction Environment & Social…
WHILE the Tina River Hydropower Development Project is a national priority set to deliver many benefits to the people of its islands, the project area, located on the Tina River tributary of the Ngalimbiu river, 30 kms north of Honiara…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU SPIRES Project, a leading initiative under the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification and Solomon Power has previously unveiled plans for a pilot solar renewable energy electrification project aimed to help the Rokera Provincial Secondary School.…
AFTER years of preparation work, the final construction Environmental and Safeguard Management Plan for the Tina River Hydropower Development Project has been approved last month. The Project’s holding company Tina Hydro Ltd. (THL) and its construction partner Hyundai Engineering Company…
Solomon Islands Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and Permanent Representative to the European Union, His Excellency Mr Moses Kouni Moses, expressed grave concerns towards the current challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on Food insecurity. Ambassador Mose…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE powers of nature are now troubling the rural population of Pipisu village in West Are’are, Malaita province. Villagers of the Pipisu community are now turning to rice as their main source of staple diet since wild…
CLIMATE impacts almost all aspect of life in the Solomon Islands. Climate change will be a major impediment to the achievement of sustainable development in Solomon Islands, as all economic and social sectors are likely to be adversely affected, and…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU COMMUNITY-based conservation groups in Malaita Province will be benefiting from the Forest Development Fund (FDF) under the USAID Strengthening Competitiveness Agriculture Livelihood and Environment – Natural Resource Management (SCALE-NRM) Grant Project under Winrock International to transform the…
CHIEF John Andrew Kiri of North Malaita is blunt in his assessment of environmental conditions in and around his tropical community’s lands – and indeed, across all of Malaita, the most populous and largest island by size in the Solomon…
HONIARA – The Concrete batching plant for the Tina River Hydropower Development Project has gone through its final installation work and is expected to be in full operation by January 2023. Manas Ranjan Samal, Hyundai Electrical Engineering (HEC) Electrical Manager…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THOUSANDS of villagers at the Kolombangara Island in the Western province are set to benefit from the KIWA “WISH+” project to help tackle climate change through better forest and water management. The KIWI Watershed Interventions for Systems…
Sharm El Sheikh Climate Change Conference first week of negotiations concluded with the closing plenary of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technology Advice (SBSTA) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI). Substantive conclusions were adopted but only related to reports…
