BY JOHN HOUANIHAU MELCHIOR Mataki, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Disaster Management, emphasized the need for enhanced communication systems during the Solomon Islands’ cyclone season. Permanent Secretary Mataki provided an update on the effects of…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU AN emergency response for the provinces hit by Tropical Cyclone Lola has been put in place, according to Melchior Mataki, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Disaster Management. Permanent Secretary Mataki made these…
DUE to high turbidity caused by current heavy rains, water supply from our Kombito source is closed until further notice. Turbidity is a measurement of how cloudy the water is in surface water sources and can be caused by silt,…
GEOGAS Pacific Limited has purchased the Origin Energy Holdings Limited shares in 7 Pacific countries namely Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, American Samoa and Cook Islands. Geogas is a French company with offices in Sydney, Paris and…
CENTRAL Makira Constituency (CMC) has delivered 16 water tanks worth more than 300k for its rural water and sanitation program on 19 October 2023. CMC office under the leadership of Honourable Member of Parliament (MP) Nestor Ghiro facilitated the project.…
WATER Level and Flow Monitoring at the Tina River reservoir site has been successfully completed by EPC contractors, Hyundai Engineering Company (HEC) after the team, led by HEC Senior Design Engineer Mr. Oh Myung Hwan, camped down at the dam…
A consultation on the Kava Regional Development Strategy 2024-2028 and presentation of a scoping study on developing a kava-based pharmaceutical/nutraceutical industry in the Pacific was held in Honiara on Wednesday 18th October 2023. The consultation was facilitated by a team…
THE Forum Fisheries Agency has this week hosted a tuna bottling for small business workshop training, which attracted at least 15 local participants in Honiara, according to the FFA media statement. The training aims to provide tuna bottling training for…
ACCESS to electricity in rural areas of Solomon Islands is a widespread issue faced by most communities living in those parts of the country. The Stimulating Progress Towards Improved Rural Electrification in Solomon Islands (SPIRES) project, implemented thru UNDP by…
IN a recent operation in Western Province, approximately 500 different Unexploded Ordnance (UXOs) were removed and prepared for destruction. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) safely removed those UXOs to a safer…
SOLOMON Water has announced the closure of water supply and no running water to several urban communities and business areas after a major burst pipe in central Honiara. The cause of the outage was a major burst pipe caused by…
CLOSE to half (49.5%) of all households in Solomon Islands had no access to a toilet facility – with open defecation being the primary facility used. This was captured in the 2019 Census report where a total of 132,492 households…
