LOCAL business LF & Sons Enterprises has announced it is expanding cocoa supplies and improving market access to support livelihoods in remote areas of Malaita. For the first time, Malaita’s largest cocoa buyer will partner with Australia to increase export…
THE European Union has pledged to support the Bina Harbour Tuna Processing Plant project, aligning with the Solomon Islands Government’s push for transformative economic infrastructure development. This is one of the key outcomes following a meeting between the Minister for…
THE Solomon Islands Government, through the Ministry of National Planning and Development Coordination and the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has hosted a fruitful roundtable dialogue with development partners to accelerate progress on the Bina Harbour Tuna Processing Plant…
A joint mission team from the World Bank and the Solomon Islands Government (SIG) have commended Agribusiness Producers Organizations (ABPOs) approved under the Solomon Islands Agriculture and Rural Transformation (SIART) grants in Malaita. This was during the team’s visit to…
THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) is re-engaging with the Fote community and landowning groups, for the redevelopment of the once renown National Agriculture Training Institute (NATI) at Fote, West Kwaraáe in Malaita province. NATI was operational at Fote…
SOLOMON Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry [SICCI] sees Bina Harbor project as an important national project that can address some of the country’s major issues such as lack of employment opportunities and poor economic activities. As the peak organization…
A new three-year partnership program was launched by Australian High Commissioner Rod Hilton to support and enhance the Baru Conservation Alliance (BCA) and its tribal model initiatives in the East Kwaio Mountain region of Malaita province in the Solomon Islands.…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU APUNEPARA Ha’amwaora Natural Resource Association, a community-based organization in South Malaita, has recently embarked on a mission aimed at equipping the tribal community for the conservation and protection of its terrestrial forest and mangrove ecosystems. Solomon Islands…
THE feasibility study on the Auki Road Network Tarsealing project was successfully concluded last week by six Chinese engineers in the Provincial capital. The weeklong study is being conducted in collaboration with local engineers from the Ministry of Infrastructure Development…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU COASTAL rural communities in the West Are’are region of Malaita province have over the years faced the major challenges of maintaining their homes and buildings due to rust issues, particularly with metal roofing. Metal roofing is popular…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU IN MALAITA SINCE their supply of clean drinking water was exhausted eight years ago, the people of Pipisu village in West Are’are, Malaita province including women, youth, and children, have been forced to walk great distances in…
THE highly priced Durian fruit crop has the potential to benefit farmers in Malaita Province following a recent discovery that the crop already yielded substantial revenue for existing rural farmers in Dala, West Kwara’ae constituency. This has prompted the Malaita…