Over 20 per cent of people in Pacific Island Countries, including Solomon Islands, live in hardship. A World Bank report says extreme poverty remains rare in the pacific, but that over 20 percent of people in most countries live in hardship.
The Secretary-General of the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat has told the Solomon Islands, and Cook Islands that hard work to implement their peer review recommendations begins now.
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says around 70 percent of all deaths in the Pacific are caused by Non-Communicable Diseases, NCDs, such as heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes related illnesses and respiratory diseases.
Forum Economic Ministers can make a significant difference to address non-communicable diseases in the Pacific, says Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo. Forum Economic Ministers and Pacific Health Ministers this week, committed to taking proactive actions against the growing health and economic…
The Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture will return to Solomon Islands in 2018. This is after Solomon Islands won the bid to host the next Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture. Solomon Islands hosted the inaugural Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture in 1998.
Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has told regional Finance and Economic Ministers, “strengthening economic linkages is relevant and pressing”. The 2014 Forum Economic Ministers Meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum officially opened in Honiara this morning, and this is its eighteenth meet.
A Pacific Islands Forum team that recently reviewed developments in Solomon Islands has noted positive outcomes in a number of Government processes and systems.
Solomon Islands participants at the 5th Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture continue to impress at satellite venues around Papua New Guinea. A statement from the contingent’s Media Team says – music bands, dance and panpipe groups traveled to satellite venues at Mount Hagen in the Highlands of…
A leader of the Solomon Islands contingent to the Melanesian Arts and Culture Festival in Papua New Guinea has passed away. In a service message through SIBC, the Minister, Permanent Secretary and staff of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announce, the late John Tahinao, Director of Culture,…
Economic Ministers of the Pacific Islands Forum will gather for the 18th Forum Economic Ministers Meeting, FEMM in Solomon Islands this week. Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, PIFS, Tuiloma Neroni Slade says this year’s FEMM will deliberate on policy options to Strengthen…
The current political impasse in Papua New Guinea has no effect on the Solomon Islands contingent to the 5th Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival in the country.
The inaugural High School Choral Festival planned for next week is targeting high school students as they are in an age group that is vulnerable to teenage problems.
The Government has announced Solomon Islands participation at the upcoming fifth Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture, MFAC, in Papua New Guinea. The Festival’s opening ceremony will be in Port Moresby on June 28, and will run for two weeks ending on July 11.
The oldest and most prestigious university in the English-speaking world, the Oxford University in England, is collaborating with the University of Goroka in the areas of Mathematics, Science and Language Literature.
Samoa hosts Solomon Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia, FSM, for the first Pacific Peer Review “South-South attachments” Six senior government officials from Ministries of Finance, Planning and Budgeting from Solomon Islands and FSM are spending two week attachment with Samoa’s Ministry…
A two-day National Consultation on a new Framework for Regionalism in the Pacific has concluded in Honiara yesterday. The consultations which gathered representatives from the Government, private sector and NGOs over a two-days period aimed at gathering inputs from Solomon Islanders to contribute…
Two new mosquito-borne diseases are expected to reach the Pacific shores. Fiji’s National Advisor for communicable diseases, Dr Mike Kama says though the dengue virus may start to decline, people should remain vigilant and continue with clean up campaigns.
Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has conveyed the sympathies of the Fijian people to the Solomon Islands following this week’s flash floods that caused severe destruction and claimed several lives.
The Pacific Media Assistance Scheme, PACMAS, and the Solomon Islands Media Association, MASI, have jointly organised a regional Media Directors Training in the country.
Indonesia’s Papua region must be made in conjunction with Jakarta. Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo and other leaders in the Melanesian Spearhead Group are considering a bid for membership by the indigenous Melanesians of Papua region.
