A call-out made to Provincial Disaster Officers and key informants by the National Disaster Management Office recently to determine the impacts of the current weather condition indicated that no major damages to properties, infrastructure, or loss of lives were being…
BY LIVETT MYRNE COMFORT Ms. LINA Dorovolomo’s passion for learning more about the natural environment since high school, took her to university to study science. After completing a postgrad at the university of south pacific in Fiji, she joined the…
SINCE the initiation of the Solomon Islands Development Agency in the country on October 2021. The founder and Chief Exclusive Officer (CEO) of the local-based Non-Profitable Organisation Joseph Poha told Environment Media that evidently, the profitable way for our people…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE constant heavy rain and windy weather conditions that is associated with Tropical Cyclone Fili will continue to affect most parts of the country during this week as it moved for New Caledonia. The bad weather associated…
THE weather condition currently experienced countrywide is associated with an active trough located south of the Solomon Islands and is linked to Tropical cyclone Fili close to New Caledonia. The Solomon Islands Meteorological Service (SIMS) says, the active trough located…
SOLOMON Water has awarded a USD$7.1m (SBD 57 m) contract for the Honiara Water Reservoirs Project to Pacific Engineering and ION Exchange. Pacific Engineering is a New Zealand based engineering and construction company. ION Exchange is a water supply and…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU A LOCAL-based organization, Solomon Islands Development Agency has introduced the processing of dried cassava, kumara, taro, and banana starch into flour in the country. The development of tropical flour products is seen as a major step taken…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU SIX communities namely Ambu, Kokomu, Lilisiana, Ngalisagore, sikitae and Fasitoro have successfully taken part in a recycling workshop in Auki last week on March 29 and 30. Auki Market Vendor Association project coordinator Joel Reverly said, four…
A VIRTUAL ceremony took place to mark the official handing over of radiation detection instruments by the Miroslav Pinak Acting Director, Division of radiation transport and waste safety from the International Atomic Energy Agency and received by Ambassador Collin Beck…
Varivao Holdings Limited has exported a 20-foot container of frozen cassava with a couple earning just over $38,000 for supplying yellow cassava from their farm. Varivao Holdings Limited, the only locally owned community-based company in the country, exported the 14…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU A heavy rain warning is now in force through all the nine provinces in the Solomon Islands, according to the Solomon Island Meteorology Service in Honiara this afternoon. Weather forecasting officer, Edward Maru told environment media that…
OFFICIAL from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation of Japan (OFCF) have held the 12th Joint Steering Committee meeting on their Sea cucumber Project recently. This was held through the zoom platform. Opening…