Day one of the Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on Monday has highlighted Melanesian people’s close connection to their land and environment.
The Solomon Islands contingent to the fifth Melanesian Festival of Arts has left the country for Papua New Guinea. Media Officer for the Solomon Islands Contingent, George Hermmings, told SIBC News this week the contingent left on a chartered flight yesterday.
The Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau has unveiled its plans to position the destination as a new and very alternative venue for the international MICE market.
The Solomon Islands has the world’s highest Google search volume index for “World Cup”, says the America’s Time online magazine. In an article “5 weird facts about the World Cup”, the Time says the Solomon Islands is “Googling ‘World Cup’ like crazy”.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, John Wasi is calling on all its partners to seriously consider cultural development in Solomon Islands. Forum Solomon Islands International reports, Mr.
Cultural groups representing Solomon Islands in the upcoming fifth Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture in Papua New Guinea has staged a live dress rehearsal today at the National Museum Grounds.
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.
Solomon Islands assistant coach Gideon Omokirio says MAMULA needs to win all its remaining matches to remain in the competition and achieve its overall goal.
Blackbirding is an important part of Solomon Islands history says the Minister for Culture and Tourism, Samuel Manetoali. Speaking yesterday to launch the Australian South Sea Islanders Exhibition in Honiara, Minister Manetoali said some Solomon Islanders may have had grandfathers who were taken to…
The Australian Government has announced 3-million Australian dollars assistance package for the Solomon Islands flooding. A media release from the Office of Australia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop said she announces Australia will provide a total package of 3-million dollars to assist…
Fiji’s Hawaiian based artist George Fiji Veikoso has dedicated his current tour in the country to two local women who helped in his upbringing. Mr Veikoso recalled, when he was growing up as a child at the Rawaga settlement, outside Suva city, two Solomon Islands women whom he cannot vividly recall…
