Browsing Category
Frank Short
While celebrating 40 years of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) there comes a grim…
An article published in today’s edition of Solomon Times on Line reminds us all that it was forty years ago that 12 Pacific leaders met in the Solomon Islands under the chairmanship of…
South Pacific’s first-ever free children’s heart hospital is being built in Fiji
I came across a humanitarian story tonight, Sunday, while browsing the internet to learn how the government in Fiji was coping with the incidences of measles that has seen urgent…
Japanese cooperation in aiding education and likely tourism development
The Government of Japan in terms of its Grassroots Development Assistance Programme has delivered yet another new school classroom in the Solomon Islands. It has been reported that the…
Agreement forecasted to benefit Solomon Islanders
“We must plan for tomorrow. “Plan things that will benefit our children, their children and their children’s children. “Let’s not be egotistical or selfish and take all the benefits for…
- Advertisement -
The challenge in moving to a more sustainable path in the forestry sector
The Finance Minister, the Hon, Harry Kuma, revealed in his 2020 recent budget speech in Parliament that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is projected to be around 2.3 per…
SI: Pursuing substantial and private sector development
The Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry Board Chairman, Mr. Jay Bartlett, in elaborating on why the Chamber decided on the theme for this year’s Business Excellence Awards,…
Hidden dangers in imported food products that have replaced traditional diets
Mr. Sogavare told a roundtable meeting on NCDs in Honiara that NCD’s were killing thousands of people around the Pacific every year, in numbers that far outweighed those killed by climate…
SI: Measles alert
In the Solomon Islands the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) is on alert in the wake of the measles outbreak in a number of Pacific Island countries, including Samoa, Fiji and…
- Advertisement -
Greening Honiara and provincial centres
In his speech, during the Business Excellence Award (BEA) last weekend, the Prime Minister, the Hon. Manasseh Sogavare mentioned that the Government was embarking on the modernisation of…
Pacific nations demand greater commitments at the COP 25 climate talks in Madrid
The Small island countries in the Pacific are demanding greater commitments at this week's Madrid climate talks, saying what's been done so far is far from enough. The lead negotiator for…