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by Ronald Toito’ona The Solomon Islands Government for National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) has allocated around SBD$8 million to host the Honiara Summit 2025, which begins on February 24 in Honiara. This was confirmed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & External Trade (MFAET), Collin Beck during a…
by Ronald Toito’ona Honiara will be the centre of global discussions on sustainable fisheries as it co-hosts the Honiara Summit 2025 – a significant gathering aimed at addressing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14.4 on fisheries sustainability. This four-day summit, to be held in collaboration with the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries…
by Ednal Palmer, Georgina Maka’a, and Ronald Toito’ona Three months after his appointment as interim head of the Telecommunications Commission of Solomon Islands (TCSI) in February 2021, Calvin Ziru flew to Munda in Western Province for one of his first official engagements. This meeting with members of TCSI’s Technical Evaluation…
Japan is assisting Solomon Islands address Honiara’s growing traffic issue. This comes with the launch of a project called “Capacity Improvement of Urban Transport Management in Honiara”. The project, according to a joint statement from the Japanese and Solomon Islands governments, aims to improve the road traffic environment and create a…
Six community representatives have been appointed to help guide the construction of the new Seghe Market in Western Province. This is to ensure strong community participation as construction prepares to commence. Australia is funding the market project at a cost of SBD$28.9 million. The appointments were made last week during…
The Australian High Commission has opened a new round of the Solomon Islands–Australia Community Partnerships. The Solomon Islands-Australia Community Partnerships support community-led projects to improve living standards through small-scale community projects like staff houses, toilet blocks, community water tanks, solar power for community infrastructure, and community halls. “Community Partnerships funding…
Gold Ridge suffers huge financial losses brought on by illegal miners Government recently suspended the issuance of Gold Dealers Licences to individuals in the wake of increased illegal mining at the Gold Ridge mine site in Central Guadalcanal. Will this put a stop to these illegal activities? RONALD TOITO’ONA reports…. …
AAP – Just one woman has been elected in Vanuatu’s election, which looks likely to have returned the previous government prior to the snap poll. A five-way coalition government featuring caretaker prime minister Charlot Salwai, climate advocate Ralph Regenvanu and popular force Jotham Napat is likely to form in the coming…
Honiara will play host to Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Myles when he lands here for his third visit tomorrow. Myles is flying over from the Mircronesian nation of Kiribati where he had high-level talks with its re-elected government, which closed its country’s borders in 2024 while…
PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AAP) – Voting is beginning in Vanuatu’s snap election, remarkably going ahead despite the turbulence of a severe earthquake one month ago. Thursday has been declared a public holiday in the Pacific nation, when roughly 315,000 registered voters will have the chance to vote to send 52 MPs…
