BY JOHN HOUANIHAU A resident of North Guadalcanal, who is currently the President of the North Guadalcanal Bus Association James Para is calling on the government to fix the appalling roads north of Guadalcanal province. He said the nature of…
BY MYTNE LIVETT OFFICIALS of the Community Led Total Sanitation program under the Guadalcanal Council of Women have raised a series of health trigger awareness to communities residing in five wards on Central Guadalcanal that are still practicing open defecation…
BY MYRNE LIVETT DEPUTY Director Project of Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, McDonnell Hiva has expressed concern over the lack of technical and advisory services to farmers across Guadalcanal and blamed the provincial agricultural extension officers for not precisely doing…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE greatest challenge faced by the Zoko tribal landowners in South Choiseul, Choiseul Province in the Solomon Islands today is the increasing rate of environmental damage and forest encroachment on their land due to commercial logging. In…
BY JOY OFASIA A new environmental learning centre for the natural environment was launched earlier last week at the Botanical garden office. Speaking to the Sunday Isles paper, the Project coordinator of the Learning and Ecological Activities Foundation for Children,…
BY MYRNE LIVETT SMALL-scale semi-subsistence farming remains a common practice that sustains the livelihood of most people in Central Guadalcanal. Recently, Isles Media interviewed Freddie Nahum Maeni 52, one of a hard-working rural semi-subsistence farmers of Mataruka village in the…
BY MYRNE LIVETT Green grow investment based in the Malango area of Central Guadalcanal is the first rural-based Agri-business in Central Guadalcanal with a single focus on reaching one of the common end products of cocoa, Chocolate. Owner of (GGI)…
THE Chairman of the Gold Ridge Community and Landowners Association [GRCLC], Mr Dick Douglas has called on his people residing in the mining leased areas to vacate and return to their villages. Douglas was speaking during an awareness program to…
BY MYRNE LIVETT RURAL FARMERS in Central Guadalcanal have called on political leaders, government leaders, Chiefs and educated leaders in the community to help cocoa farmers in the villages by boosting agri-business at the community level. Lemuel Bobby and Elihu…
BY MYRNE LIVETT ITS science class and students are expected to turn on the water taps inside the science lab but the taps are not working as they are expected. Willie Palusi, 43, a secondary science teacher from Temotu province…
BY MYRNE LIVETT WHILE Matarku Community in the heart of Central Guadalcanal has significant groundwater resources, the rural populations are still faced with a lack of adequate infrastructure. The rural inhabitants still rely on unsafe water sources such as shallow…
BY MYRNE LIVETT CENTRAL Guadalcanal Cocoa farmers call for financial assistance to rural smallholders rather than hand tools only. Anick Chiasi 35 of Pamphylia village further inland in the Malango ward, said he’s engaging in cocoa for 20 years maintaining…