By Alfred Pagepitu The Livestock Division within the Ministry of Agriculture is looking at the best possible way to address the issue of stray dog attacks in Gizo town. A team from the Division has already conducted an assessment of the situation.
By Alfred Pagepitu The Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification is working on solving a dispute between landowners and a mining company at San Jorge, Isabel province.
A crucial workshop on Multi-Hazards Early Warning for Solomon Islands gets underway in Honiara this week, gathering multiple national key stakeholders and international agencies.
By Alfred Pagepitu The Gizo Task Dog Committee is working on controlling the stray dog population in the provincial capital. This comes after reports of dog attacks on innocent victims with the recent victim being hospitalized.
By Alfred Pagepitu The Honiara City Council (HCC) thanked the public for participating in the clean up campaign held on Friday in preparation for the 46th Independence celebration. Deputy City Clerk Jefferson Patovaki said a huge number of Honiara residents have turned up for the clean up.
By Alfred Pagepitu The Honiara City Council (HCC) is asking all residents of Honiara to participate in a general clean-up tomorrow. The clean up is part of preparing Honiara City clean ahead of the 3 day Independence celebration from Saturday until Monday.
On 4th June, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), through support of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), handed over specialized technical equipment to the Climate Change Division (CCD) of the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and…
New Hope Academy School Students in Honiara had a rare opportunity in marking the International Biodiversity day this year, an annual event commemorated globally on 22nd May.
Two Primary School Teachers from Kolokolo Primary School (KPS) in Southeast Vela, Western Province, have become the first household to utilize Sato Pan Toilets as part of the sanitation program currently implemented by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Solomon Islands in the area.
By Alex Dadamu A group of enthusiastic young girls from the Tuvaruhu community in Central Honiara is changing the game on how single-use plastic waste is reused.
The Ministry of Environment Climate Change Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) facilitated the first Technical Working Committee meeting for the introduction of a Product Stewardship Scheme (PSS) for the Solomon Islands.
The Solomon Islands Rangers Association (SIRA) hosted an information session in Honiara yesterday. The aim of the session was to bring together agencies, Foreign Missions, and High Commission Offices to hear from local rangers and their work in the provinces.
The regulation to ban the importation, distribution, manufacture, sale & supply of single- use plastic products in the country is now in force. This comes after the 6 months grace period provided for the regulation since 1st September 2023 came to an end on Thursday.
The Honiara City Council (HCC) will be starting its clean, safe, and green Honiara 2024 and beyond campaign this Friday afternoon, 9th February 2024. The cleaning-up campaign was agreed upon by the Executive Committee on 1st February 2024.
Solomon Islands is two and a half months now in an effort to battle single-use-plastic in the country in collaboration with the industries and business sectors, since September 1st, 2023.
The remaining focus of the national Government-led Safe & Green Games Campaign will be a massive cleanup along the Matanikau River and the roadside drainages within Honiara City. This will happen before the arrival of first Pacific Games visitors into Honiara, on November 14th, 2023.
Honiara City Administration, the Honiara City Council is a step closer to fulfilling its obligation for a “Clean, safe and Healthy Honiara” with special emphasis on the Pacific Games period (19th Nov- 2nd Dec) with a boost of 1.1 million donation worth of skip bin trucks and bins from the National…
Water Level and Flow Monitoring at the Tina River reservoir site has been successfully completed by EPC contractors, Hyundai Engineering Company (HEC) after the team, led by HEC Senior Design Engineer Mr. Oh Myung Hwan, camped down at the dam site over a weeklong period.
The Japanese Embassy in Honiara has conveyed its concern over Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s statement at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), condemning Japan’s action to discharge treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.
The Honiara City Council (HCC) Environmental Health will carry out a thorough two-week inspection for expired goods in every shop from King George Sixth to White River, Savo market. The Inspection will be conducted on a random basis on dates not announced.
