BY JOHN HOUANIHAU AHETAHA Water Conservation Association in East Are’are, Malaita Province making every effort count as they recently undergo a two days’ workshop on how to manage their protected natural resources. The workshop was organized and facilitated by the…
BY ALEX DADAMU LAUNCHED in October of 2022, Solomon Islands Development Agency (SIDA) has big plans for 2023 and onwards. SIDA is a small-scale manufacturing company, with small processing machines currently producing a total average of 40 to 50 kilograms…
CLIMATE impacts almost all aspect of life in the Solomon Islands. Climate change will be a major impediment to the achievement of sustainable development in Solomon Islands, as all economic and social sectors are likely to be adversely affected, and…
Solo, a 167-centimetre-long leatherback turtle named after the Sol2023 Pacific Games Official Mascot, is still within Haevo waters, in Isabel province. Since being fitted with a satellite tag whilst nesting in November last year (2023), Solo has since nested four…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE Ahetaha Water Conservation successfully completed training on Village and Community WASH Bottleneck Analysis Manual for 12 communities from 26th to 27th December 2022. About 27 participants or representatives from Foulofo, Waima’aka, Kanata, Moosi, Su’u, Manawai, Ahetaha,…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE Solomon Islands Rangers had worked in partnership with WWF-Pacific Solomon Islands staff through the facilitation of a series of training to forty-two participants from ten selected conservation communities under WWFSI Program in Gizo. The training workshop…
THE Enhance Integrated Framework (EIF) Project implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MFAET) has provided a lot of positive impacts on the export sector to ensuring it meets international standards. The project is supported by the…
THE Gold Ridge Community and Landowners Council [GRCLC] Ltd is currently conducting meetings to the 16 landowning tribes of the Gold Ridge Mine in Central Guadalcanal. According to the Chairman of the GRCLC, Dick Douglas the series of meetings in…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE Solomon Islands Maritime Authority held its first-ever open forum on Tuesday at the Solomon Islands National University Marine School Campus at Ranadi, East Honiara. The Solomon Islands Maritime Authority (SIMA) administers the Solomon Islands maritime sector,…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU COMMUNITY-based conservation groups in Malaita Province will be benefiting from the Forest Development Fund (FDF) under the USAID Strengthening Competitiveness Agriculture Livelihood and Environment – Natural Resource Management (SCALE-NRM) Grant Project under Winrock International to transform the…
BY CHRIS ALEX GRADUATING with a diploma certificate in theology studies was an academic success for Don Kelly, who later turned businessman and owner of Jedom Organic Foods Limited in 2016. Don from the province of Guadalcanal in the Solomon…
CHIEF John Andrew Kiri of North Malaita is blunt in his assessment of environmental conditions in and around his tropical community’s lands – and indeed, across all of Malaita, the most populous and largest island by size in the Solomon…