SI Receives More Rural Development Funds from Taiwan
Source: Scoop
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-18 19:03:50 -0700 | political-news
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo formally received payment documents from the ROC Ambassador Roy Wu during a handover ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in Honiara. A total funding support of SB$13.2 will be paid to 33 constituencies for rural...
Pacific Parliamentarians Forum: gender equality in Pacific
Source: Scoop
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-17 19:36:06 -0700 | political-news
Parliamentarians and political leaders from 22 Pacific nations are meeting in the New Zealand Parliament for the next five days. The forum includes sessions on issues of key importance to the Pacific, including one session on gender equality with a...
Pacific Plan Review underway in Solomon Islands
Source: Scoop
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-16 18:13:04 -0700 | political-news
Beginning today with a meeting with the Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Hon. Gordon Darcy Lilo, and a roundtable discussion with Permanent Secretaries of various ministries, the Review Team will also consult throughout the week with senior civil servants, civil society,...
Project Helps Solomon Islanders Improve Food Security
Source: Scoop
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-16 18:12:52 -0700 | green-news
Communities which traditionally depended on yams and taro for a staple diet have admitted switching to sweet potatoes and cassava as their farms can no longer grow the former crops. Changes in the soil fertility brought about by the changing...
Electoral Bill to Address Deficiencies In Voter Registration
Source: Scoop
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-15 19:48:48 -0700 | political-news
The Committee's report into the parliament electoral provision amendment bill 2013, states that the whole system and process is in great need of change. It says the electoral provisions amendment bill 2013 passed in parliament recently only seek to address...
Minister Applauds SINTA For Ending Teachers Strike
Source: Scoop
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-15 19:48:49 -0700 | political-news
The Supervising Education Minister said coming up with such an agreement is not always easy. He however said the Agreement signed between the two parties concerns the future of children and Solomon Islands...The Supervising Minister thanked his staff for their...
Mangrove plan review
Source: Fiji Times
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-14 14:22:35 -0700 | business-news
Fiji project co-ordinator Neema Nand confirmed the review of the 1985-1986 MMP, which began in 2010, was still in its drafting process. "Our project deadline is by the end of this year but we are hoping to get the finals...
Challenge for disciplined forces
Source: Fiji Times
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-13 14:03:16 -0700 | travel-news
This was the thoughts of Filipe Matavesi, one of only two survivors today of the First Battalion, Fiji Regiment. Mr Matavesi, joined by several other war veterans and their families, the president of Fiji, Prime Minister and members of the...
A day for heroes
Source: Fiji Times
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-13 14:03:15 -0700 | travel-news
Returned Soldiers and Ex-Servicemen's Association of Fiji president Peni Volavola, speaking at the 70th anniversary to commemorate the battle fought in 1943 by Fiji's first military unit to be deployed for overseas combat, said the heroic deeds of these men...
Alert on fever spread
Source: Fiji Times
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-12 13:30:31 -0700 | green-news
This was confirmed by Ministry of Health national adviser communicable diseases, Doctor Eric Rafai. He said past dengue fever outbreaks in Fiji had all stemmed from outbreaks in other Pacific Island countries. "This has always happened in the past. Whenever...
500 Solomon Islands teachers are 'ghosts'
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-10 23:22:26 -0700 | political-news
Solomon Islands teachers are 'ghosts' Updated April 11, 2013 14:13:32 Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has ordered an urgent inquiry into hundreds of "ghost teachers" drawing more than one salary. The Ministry of Education believes there are more...
Youth Find a Future in Food Production
Source: Inter Press Service
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-10 00:47:54 -0700 | green-news
They now have the largest urban agricultural enterprise in the Munda area on New Georgia Island, Western Province, which is providing them a sustainable livelihood and boosting wider food and nutritional security. Youth unemployment stands at 45 percent in the...
Likely Indonesia out, West Papua in
Source: Scoop
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-09 16:38:06 -0700 | political-news
If Vanuatu national leaders, and some top brass in the opposition, mean what they say of the support to the West Papuan cause, towards self-determination, Indonesia will likely be voted out, and West Papua will be voted in, as observer...
PIWG Meeting Successful
Source: Scoop
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-08 02:16:18 -0700 | political-news
Central and Reserve banks from isalnd nations such as Fiji, PNG, Samoa, Vanuatu and the Solomons. Also in attendance were representa¬tives from stakeholders such as the Pacific Islands Financial Inclusion Program, US based Bankable Fron¬tier Assocaition, Commonwealth Youth Programme and...
Water Shortage Hits Pacific Women
Source: Inter Press Service
Honiara :: Solomon Islands | updated 2013-04-08 00:55:27 -0700 | political-news
The Solomon Islands, a developing island nation in the south-west Pacific Islands, has one of the highest urbanisation rates in the region, and the basic service infrastructure is struggling to cater for the influx of people from the provinces to...
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