Solomon Islands News

Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has met Japans Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs on Friday 14th June 2013 in Honiara.

THE Fiji Corrections Service is moving in a new direction and is a shining example for corrections jurisdictions in other Pacific Island nations, says Solomon Islands Commissioner of Corrections Francis Haisoma.

The in-coming chair of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, Mickael Forrest, opening the pre-summit Senior Officials Meeting at Poindimie, New Caledonia, last week before the main conference today and tomorrow.

"DURING THE TIME when the Panguna mine was operating, they used to throw the waste here," said Paulus Kikihe, indicating an area of land where people were digging to obtain gold.

The world heritage site of East Rennell has been inscribed on the list of world heritage in danger due to logging that is affecting the ecosystem of the Solomon Islands' world heritage site, according to a UNESCO press statement on Tuesday.

The Government today has signed a printing deal with local firm Pacific Printers Limited as the appointed Government Printer on behalf of the Solomon Islands Government.

The Manager of the United Nations Development Programme's Pacific Centre Garry Wiseman made these comments at the opening of a workshop aimed at improving the skills of journalists to increase public awareness on housing rights and urbanization in Melanesia.

A GATHERING OF PACIFIC leaders in New Caledonia is this week deciding whether to admit a pro-independence group from Indonesian province of West Papua to the body.

First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015. Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date.

National Volunteer Week is the largest celebration of volunteering in New Zealand.

Enabling womens access to information, services and decision making spaces is the motivation for the monthly community media network meetings, community radio programme productions, Womens Household Income and Expenditure Surveys as well Enabling women's access to information, services and decision making spaces is the motivation for the monthly ... (more)

The first Solomon Island community to request assistance from OceansWatch to help them manage their marine resources has had their MPA recognised by the Provincial Government.

I had promised my team I would be back by 2pm. "If you're not here I'll look for you on the Vura Track," I told them.

A double hulled waka, Te Matau a Maui, is gracing the Wellington harbour as part of nationwide celebrations to mark Matariki .

The Governor General Sir Frank Kabui has joined leaders and people of Temotu to celebrate the Province's 2nd Appointed Day in Lata Friday last week.

Malaria cases in Solomon Islands have dropped significantly as a result of untiring efforts by the Ministry of Health's National Vector Borne Disease Control Program in the last five years.

DAVID MARK: Here's a recent headline from New Zealand: "A hunt for millions of dollars in lost Japanese wartime gold worthy of a thriller movie plot is unfolding in the Solomon Islands."

Fiji U20 goalkeeper Senirusi Bokini trains with the Lautoka side for the Vodafone Fiji FACT.

This Bougainville Manifesto series explores the Bougainville conflict from the pre-colonial era; through colonialism and into the boots of Papua New Guinea.

Being paid to travel the world doing what you love is all part of the job for former Cambridge St Peters School student, Corporal Paul Robinson.