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For more than 60 years, Australian volunteers have been a vital ingredient in the partnership between Solomon Islands and Australia. The first volunteers arrived in 1965 and since then, more than 700 volunteers have worked alongside over 136 local organisations to share skills, strengthen institutions and support locally led development…
Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) is calling on Solomon Islanders to look beyond elections and take greater responsibility for strengthening the country’s democracy. TSI’s executive officer Ruth Liloqula said International Democracy Day on September 15 should be more than a ceremonial celebration and should instead prompt serious reflection on the health…
The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) has retracted a media statement attributed to Principal Education Officer of the Education Provider Support Unit, David Polosomana, published in the Island Sun newspaper concerning the Government’s Free Education Policy. In a statement, the ministry said the views attributed to Polosomana…
Former Member of Parliament and Speaker of the National Parliament, Sir Waetaben Tabusasi, has issued a strong challenge to the National Government, urging a total policy shift back toward state-managed services to revive the country’s infrastructure networks. Sir Ben is demanding the resurrection of the defunct Public Works Department (PWD)…
The first five students selected under the Solomon Islands Government’s 1,000 Students Per Year to China Initiative departed for China today to undertake vocational studies. Their departure marks the first step in the rollout of the Government-funded initiative established by Prime Minister Matthew Wale and the GREAT Coalition. The programme…
No confidence motion withdrawn, but experts say volatility could undermine PM Wale’s pivot to Canberra, Washington. by Charley Piringi Volatile domestic politics in the Solomon Islands has the potential to be the Achilles heel of U.S. and Australian security strategy in the Pacific, experts said, after Prime Minister Matthew Wale…
On August 28, 2026, SBM Online carried a story titled, “ULAWA/UGI MP MARAU JOINS GREAT COALITION.” It was accompanied by a picture of Prime Minister Matthew Wale sitting next to a frail-looking William Bradford Marau, the Member of Parliament for Ulawa/Ugi. The pair were flanked by Douglas Marau, the PM’s…
PM cuts short Palau trip after Maelanga files no-confidence motion; ministers reportedly resign as GREAT Government faces internal revolt within its three-month-old coalition by Georgina Maka’a Prime Minister Matthew Wale is cutting short his Pacific Islands Forum trip and returning home to address the political revolt within his coalition, Government…
Officers told Gina Maka’a, a reporter for OCCRP member center In-depth Solomons, her questioning was aimed at uncovering the source behind a report published last year. The search also comes after IDS reporting that led to the suspension of Solomon Islands’ police chief. by OCCRP OCCRP has strongly condemned the…
by Michael E. Miller (OCCRP) and Carmel N. Pilotti (OCCRP) A Pacific island’s president bypassed an official selection process when he chose an Indian company to reopen a multi-billion dollar mine. He told OCCRP the firm’s managing director offered to pay for his wife’s kidney transplant but insisted it had…
