Solomon Islands News

The Solomon Islands government has lifted the travel bans on former police chief, Australian Shane Castles. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“Ideally the cheeseplant buds should be a regular food source, however, due to the lack of supply they rarely get these treats. "We implore anyone in CWA's locality to help us by donating any unwanted cheeseplants or rubberplants.”

Cheesy: The skinks are in need of some love Three hungry reptiles on the brink of extinction are hoping the generosity of visitors to Chessington World of Adventures will give them something to munch on. via This is Local London

SOLOMON IS: Joint approach to unemployment - 12/02/2008 The Malaita Provincial Government and the Honiara City Coucil have put their differences on hold for four days of talks in Auki, to map out a plan for the ... via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“AusAID will face the same efficiency dividend requirements of every other public agency, but to the actual programs the money doesn't get spent in Australia, so I don't expect that to be under any significant pressure.”

Senator Bob McMullan has just returned from visiting Pacific nations, in a bid to improve ties with the Australian Goverment. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Solomon Islands government has officially apologised to Chinese traders who lost their businesses in the 2006 Honiara riots. via The Age

SOLOMONS: Commission told poverty a key role in 2006 riots - 07/02/2008 The commission of inquiry into the April 2006 riots in Solomon Islands says urban poverty has played a key role in riots around the ... via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Solomon Islands police commissioner, Jahir Khan, says his resignation is voluntary. via Australia Network

New Zealand High Commissioner Deborah Pankhurst has pledged her government's commitment to work closely with the government. via People First Network News

“The members of my charity would undertake to ensure that those people affected would be helped out”

Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 9:50 am Press Release: Solomon Islands Government The Taiwan National Women's League today released extra funding worth SBD$36,500 to assist Tsunami victims in Western and Choiseul ... via Scoop

“It has enabled us to diversify and enhance our relationship and it also acts as a guiding principle for future cooperation and hopefully the establishment of a joint consultative mechanism to ensure equality and transparency in these documents”

Solomon Island Prime Minister Hon. Dr Derek Sikua hails the visit of Taiwan's Vice President Annette Lu as a significant step to promote deeper relations and mutual cooperation between the governments and ... via People First Network News

“This has enabled a lot of good small village based projects to start and it's an example we can actually show to the whole of the Pacific about how local people can take control of their situation and restore reefs and restore fishing”

The Australian Government says 2 million Australian dollars in funding to help some South Pacific nations fight climate change is just the first allocation of a much larger assistance fund. via Australia Network

AUST: Govt supports widening role of RAMSI - 01/02/2008 Australia's newly appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Affairs Duncan Kerr says he supports broadening the role of RAMSI, the Regional Assistance ... via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

AUS: Two senior MP's head for talks in 3 Pacific nations - 01/02/2008 Two senior members of the Australian government are heading for talks with the leaders of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“Undaunted, he opened fire and blasted both Zeros from the sky in short, bitterly fought action which resulted in such hopeless damage to his plane that he was forced to bail out at a perilously low altitude atop the trees on enemy-held Kolombangara”

Only weeks before he died, a fighter pilot who shot down five enemy planes in 1943 during a battle that brought him the Medal of Honor told his family that he wanted to donate that medal to the National World ... via 4 WWL-TV

SOLS: Attempted theft of Japanese WW2 monument - 24/01/2008 In Solomon Islands, the National Museum and local police are monitoring the contents of Malaysian scrap metal barges following the attempted theft of ... via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Solomon Islands government has condemned child exploitation which is reportedly widespread in parts of the country where logging is taking place. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“We've had a very high level of operational tempo -- close to 20,000 individual deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, East Timor and Solomon Islands; indeed, many other places. We've conducted 35 operations in that time.”

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Helen Clark will this afternoon meet with the new Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands. via Newstalk ZB

“Whilst it is important to nurture bilateral ties, national priorities need to be taken into consideration as opposed to a fence-mending visit where no fences had been broken.”

Scoop >> World >> Thursday, 24 January 2008, 9:13 am Press Release: Solomon Islands Opposition Group Fence-Mending Trips Ill-Concieved: Sogavare Leader of the Opposition Group in Parliament, Hon. via Scoop