The UK has announced £12 million in new funding to support developing countries to better prepare for and respond to disasters, including those linked to climate change. The funds will go to the Start Network for rapid responses by charities…
By EDDIE OSIFELO SPEAKER of Parliament, Patterson Oti says the production of the Citizen Budget Guide 2020/21 is timely. The Guide is an important tool to present the national budget in a simple way that can transform the culture of…
GREAT to see our development partners visiting the provinces and talking face-to-face with the premiers. In recent months and weeks, we’ve seen donor reps visiting provinces they’ve never visited before. This week for instance, Australia, New Zealand and China representatives…
A total of 63 churches in the country will see their hygiene practices increase as the USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs (BHA) Project through World Vision Solomon Islands recently assisted them with water tanks. The churches are from Malaita, Makira,…
THE Malaita Provincial Disaster Office successfully certified 25 community leaders in Emergency Response Training (ERT), which will give communities the ability to assist authorities and carry out their own assessments in a disaster response event. Representatives from five communities under…
“It is now a Solomon Islands’ ship,” Robert Sisilo, Solomon Islands High Commissioner to Australia, declared when he accepted and received Solomon Islands second Patrol Boat the RSIPV Taro on Friday morning last week. “And with a life span…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO FOLLOWING the approval of Sinopharm by the World Health Organisation, the National Drugs Medicine and Therapeutics committee will now consider the approval of the vaccine for use in the country this week. This was confirmed by…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Choiseul MPA for Tavula Ward Clement Kengava has labelled the current provincial government incompetent and incapable of bringing in development for the province. He made this scathing attack in response to deputy premier Nerio Ulemiki’s media call…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Samples of the mysterious dead fish in Tulagi have been sent the national public health laboratory for testing. Zuleeyen Leinga from the Environmental Health Division told Island Sun yesterday tests are being carried out on the mysterious…
