BY JOHN HOUANIHAU VALUE Added Timber Association has reached a milestone in teak plantation forestry in the Solomon Islands after exporting tons of quality teak from certified plantations owned by its members, who are rural teak farmers in the country.…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE primary supply of drinking water for thousands of rural households in Makira/Ulawa province’s Arosi One has been contaminated with hazardous wastes and murky turbidity as a result of the continued commercial logging operations on their river…
SOLOMON Islands premium tuna company, SolTuna Limited has continued to promote its premium line of high-quality canned tuna products now available on shelves of retail stores in the country and abroad at this year’s Solomon Islands National Institute of Sport…
SOLOMON Water would like to inform valued customers that current electricity outages and frequent bursts along our water trunk mains have resulted in decreasing water levels at our Tasahe, Borderline and Panatina reservoirs. This in turn has resulted in frequent…
MINISTER for National Planning and Development Coordination, Hon. Rexon Ramofafia has signed a grant Financing Agreement with the European Union (EU) for the EUR 6.3 million (SBD58.1m) Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) Climate Resilience Financing Mechanism in the Solomon…
ACTING Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure Development Hon. Manasseh Maelanga last night encouraged delegates to the 45th Pacific Maritime Alliance Conference to embrace innovation and technology to enhance their services to the region. Speaking at a welcome ceremony in…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU A Taro training workshop for rural farmers was successfully held at Nariekeara Village in West Are’are, Malaita Province. Forty (40) participants (men and women) from Communities within Ward twenty-four (24) attended the two-day workshop that was funded…
THE newly appointed Fisheries Advisory Council (FAC) wasted no time in familiarizing themselves with their roles and responsibilities. During their first meeting, the Heads of Divisions and Programmes from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) provided important updates…
PUBLIC awareness to ban single use plastics in the country will start soon. A Technical Working Committee is now well into its preparation to have the regulation in place. Chaired by the MECDM Deputy Secretary Corporate Mr. Karl Kuper, the…
THE hydrographic survey in Noro and the adjacent sea area under JICA’s Technical Cooperation project for Development Planning started on June 14. The survey is jointly conducted by Aero Asahi Corporation (AAC)), the project consultant contracted by JICA and the…
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…