SWocK project has completed two provincial Land Use Planning workshops in the Makira Ulawa and Choiseul provinces. In its monthly program, SWoCK held these workshops at Wanahata, Waihaga and Paregho villages in the Makira Ulawa province and Voza, Sasamungga and Loloko in Choiseul province.
The World Bank Group has announced, it will increase its support for disaster and climate resilient development in small island developing states from US$145 million per year to about US$190 million. It will also work with partners towards a Small Island States Resilience Initiative.
State Own Enterprises in the country has showed an average 10 percent return on equity in 2010 to 2012 compared to a return of negative 11 percent from 2002 to 2009.
Minister for Finance Rick Hou says the government has acknowledged the private sector as an engine for sustainable and development growth in Solomon Islands. Minister Hou made the statement during the Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Business Excellence Award over the weekend.
Coconut farming families in and around Choiseul Bay will no longer incur high shipping freights and travel the rough seas for days to sell their copra in Honiara.
Goulu Primary School in the Lau-Mbaelelea Constituency today received 10 cartons of books from the Rotary Club of Australia for their recently built library.
Solomon Telekom has yesterday officially opened its new Customer Care and Telekom TV complex in Honiara. Called the “Telekom Haus” it is located in what was the former NBSI and BSP bank building along Mud Alley street in Honiara, adjacent to the Central Bank of Solomon Islands.
Two schools in North Malaita were fortunate to be part of a series of evaluation and monitoring workshops conducted by Save the Children in the region recently. The schools were Sikofata Primary and Bita’ama Community High school.
Our Telekom has successfully installed three mobile towers in North Malaita and Baegu Asifola Constituencies, Malaita Province this month. SIBC News stringer John Andrew Kiri reports.
The Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) has yesterday donated a $60,000 cheque to the Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) to facilitate the National Tourism Forum later this month. The financial support is part of SIPA’s initiative to support tourism development in Solomon Islands.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RASI) have applaud the active engagement of communities and organisations in the government’s decision on its limited rearmament project.
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has met with the European Union’s Resident Ambassador to Solomon Islands Leonidas Tezapsidis in Honiara yesterday. A government statement says, during the meeting, Mr Lilo thanked and congratulated Ambassador Tezapsidis for accepting and taking up the post as EU…
The Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) says it will not tolerate the publication and spreading of misleading information that undermines public confidence in our financial system and that of customers of banks in the country.
Solomon Breweries Limited has assisted Malaita Province’s Second-Appointed day celebration by sponsoring sports competition prizes. Solbrew Manager Andy Hewson in congratulating Malaita Province on their second appointed day celebrations a few days ago said, Solbrew is pleased to sponsor rugby and…
Youths in the country will join hands with youths from around the world to celebrate the International Youth Day which falls annually on 12 August. Speaking to SIBC News, Youth Development Officer for the Women, Youth and Sports Division of the Honiara City Council Mary Tuhaika says the day will be…
The Guadalcanal Plains Palm Oil Limited plans to expand its current land lease Eastwards within the Guadalcanal Plains. SIBC’s North Guadalcanal stringer Dudley Gani reports, the company currently holds leases to six thousand hectares, and wants to expand thirteen thousand hectares towards…
Eight potential investors who have expressed interest in building and operating the Tina River Hydro Project took part in a major project briefing in Honiara, last week. The companies participating in the event were from Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Spain and Sri Lanka.
ANZ Bank has announced an agreement with the Australian Government to support the increased roll out of mobile banking and financial literacy programs to a further 65,000 Solomon Islanders previously excluded from traditional banking services.
Central Bank Governor, Denton Rarawa has condemned the theft of the ANZ ATM machine in Honiara, saying “this is unacceptable”. The ATM Machine was situated at the Kwaimani Building, along Kukum Highway, and was stolen on Friday night by men reported as wearing masks and carrying guns.
A visiting expert in gender and political leadership from the United States has encouraged Solomon Islands women to get into Parliament, saying they are the kind of women that make changes. Cathy Allen is in Honiara as part of the US Embassy’s Women’s Empowerment Speaker Series.
