Three customary landholding groups in Masupa Village in the East ‘Are’are region of Malaita Province received their certificates of land recording completion in a hand-over ceremony today. The certificates were handed over by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey, under the…
IMPROVED certification standards are expected to boost the Solomon Islands’ SBD80 million sawn timber industry and strengthen economic recovery. A recently signed agreement between the Value-Added Timber Association (VATA) in the Solomon Islands and the Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU NEARBY coastal villages located on the banks and seafront of the Kakabona in North-West Guadalcanal have become known as one of Honiara’s premier suppliers of pebbles, generating thousands of dollars in revenue every year. Positioned in an…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU SOLOMON Islands Rangers Association’s General Secretary and Mai-Maasina Green Belt Initiative, Vice Chairman argue that taking action to protect the natural environment will create more job opportunities and businesses in the country. Eddie Huitarau said protecting and…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAUTHE massive loss of coastal marine seafood at nearby communities in the San George Island in Isabel province has raised concern amongst coastal communities.Chief and Catechist Steven Tanihorara said many communities that depend entirely on marine foods for…
MINISTRY of Forestry and Research together with Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA) under Sustainable Forest Resource Management (SFRM) Project are training sawmill operators at Falake Community, West Kwara’ae on Malaita Province. The four days hands-on training is being conducted by…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU SOLOMON Islands Rangers Association has collaborated with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Solomon Islands to organize a two-days ‘Rangers Role and Management’ training for 50 local rangers in the Western province. The training was held…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU The future of SI “does not belong to Job seekers, but job creators and entrepreneurs. This was according to Solomon Islands Rangers-General Secretary and Mai-Maasina Green Belt (MMGB) Vice Chairman, Mr. Eddie Huitarau when speaking during the…
BY LIVETTI COMFORT MS. Ima Riatako, a local farmer from Simbo Island western Solomons, has been selling Mandarin Orange for five years to date, at the Gizo and Noro markets in the region of Western Province. The elderly mother, a…
BY ALEX DADAMU WOMEN noni farmers under the North West Guadalcanal Subsistence Farmers Association have expressed their profound appreciation to Solomon Noni Corporation and its founder Hon. Bodo Dettke for resuming buying of Noni fruits. A mother of four, Mrs.…
BY OFANI EREMAE AT Korona logging base on San Jorge Island in Solomon Islands’ Isabel province, the logging machinery lay quiet. Except for the movement of three local security guards, the silence in this once bustling log pond was deafening.…
BY ALEX DADAMU FOR Half an hour, the roar of the chainsaw entertain the neighbourhood and now, it went silent in the quiet Mbua Valley neighbourhood – to be replaced with the loud thud of a tree safely hitting the…