BY MIKE TUA LOCAL Environment Journalist of Sunday Isles Newspaper, Alex Junior Dadamu has used his keyboard fingers to convert his backyard into a tropical oasis and beautiful banana garden. The 29-year-old father of one, who resides at Mbua Valley…
BY ALEX DADAMU A UN Habitat report profiling Honiara says Solomon Water provides water for slightly more than 77 percent of the 8,981 households in the city, 18 percent of which are located in informal settlements. According to the report,…
A one-day Plant Health Clinic (PHC) for Women Market Vendors from East Guadalcanal Province, Aola to Ghaobata ward who are members of the Honiara Central Market Vendor Association (HCMVA) was deemed successful. The PHC was part of the four days…
A workshop that brought together relevant stakeholders across the food system in the Solomon Islands for an open dialogue and exchange of ideas on the impacts of COVID-19 was held recently at the Iron Bottom Sound Hotel in Honiara. It…
THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock continue to deliver its mandatory services to farmers throughout the country despite reduction on its development budget due to Covid-19 pressures. MAL Minister, Hon. Senley Filualea told Parliament while contributing to the sine-die motion…
THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) through its Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement with Foodworks Suppliers Limited has made another landmark achievement after both parties launched the Hatchery & Stockfeed government funded project on 30th November 2020. This came…
BY MIKE TUA THE COVID-19 global pandemic has allowed Solomon Islands including regional aspiring and experienced journalists to connect using the ‘Zoom’ – an online platform for this year’s Pacific Islands Climate Outlook Forum virtual media workshop. The four-day virtual…
BY ALEX DADAMU WHILE the country is fighting the war against the Coronavirus Pandemic, an environmental health issue that has been around for quite sometimes now and has become an eye-sore to suburbs in and around Honiara City is the…
BY JOHN CHRISMA ITS official – Solomon Island National University’s Panatina Campus – single ablution block has been described by a student as bad and smelly; needing urgent attention. A concerned student, Margret Aumamua said that recently the situation is…
BY JOHN CHRISMA TO make sure our roads are safe and efficient for all road users; Lee Kwok Kuen Company recently resealed more than 20km of feeder roads access across the Henderson area through its road repair and maintenance works…
BY MIKE TUA AS an environmental reporter for the Sunday isles newspaper for the past 8 months and with a temporary job cancellation, social uncertainty, and economic hardship due to the impact of the pandemic, it felt like everything is…
BY JOHN CHRISMA – FREELANCE LOCAL market vendors are very concerned about the lack of quality water and sanitation due to the closure of the water supply and ablution block facility at the designated Kukum Market in Honiara. The vendors’…
