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Yonema marks first anniversary as a partner of World Vision

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The initiative that YONEMA Community in Temotu Province takes to dedicate October 1 as their anniversary speaks of the excellent work of World Vision Solomon Islands through its Community Channel of Hope (CCOH) Project. 

Yonema Community combines three communities behind the Graciosa Bay, Yoo, Nep, and Mateone communities. 

World Vision first reached the community on October 1, 2020, through the Channel of Hope Project (CCOH).

CCOH faith-based approach seems a breakthrough for the organisation in this community.

Children singing

It set history for the first time a World Vision Project to working in this community despite its existence in the province for up to 20 years.

The decision to extend the project to Yonema was seen as a blessing to the community residents as testimonies of the positive impacts of the CCOH approach are heart-warming.

In honor of that, the community residents dedicated October 1 as the anniversary to commemorate this partnership.

The first celebration was on October 1, 2021, and naming the anniversary “YONEMA Day”.

Speaking during the commemoration, Yonema Community Hope and Action Team (CHAT) Chairperson James Nina described October 1 as a day which the Yonema community was born. 

“Today marks a particular time in the history of YONEMA, and as a Chairperson for YONEMA CHAT group, we are going to celebrated this day in the years to come even though World Vision will leave,” Mr Nina said. 

YONEMA community

Nina also appealed to residents to make good use of the knowledge and garden tools that other World Vision projects have donated to them. 

Meanwhile, Guest of Honour and Member of Provincial Assembly for Graciosa Bay Ward (Ward 9) Cecil Mona thanked World Vision for the changes it imparted to the lives of community residents. 

“I am happy and would like to thank World Vision Solomon Islands for its projects for imparting change in the lives of community residents. This partnership has touched the heart of the provincial government,” he said.

Mona also urged community residents for a stronger relationship with World Vision. 

Interestingly, Yonema Day commemorations happened alongside the World Vision’s calendar of a prayer day and the beginning of a new financial year.

–WVSI PRESS

Training for pig farmers at Falake Community

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Deputy Director Hearley Atupule performs an injection to a sick pick while farmers look on as part of the training demonstration activity.

THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) through its Livestock Department recently conducted a capacity boost up training on pig husbandry practices and management for farmers at Falake community in West Kwara’ae, Malaita Province.

Deputy Director of Livestock and Veterinary Services Hearley Atupule facilitated the training that ran from 27th-29th September 2021.

The training was to sharpen Falake community farmer’s capacity on appropriate pig husbandry practices and management for guaranteed profitability.

Participants at Falake village

“Boosting farmer’s capacity to ensure they properly manage their pig farms is necessary to guarantee good productivity,” Atupule said.

The training involved theory and demonstrations where Atupule said farmers learned a lot through field demonstrations being conducted.

He said farmers can realize decent productivity on their pig farms only if they are guided and provided with appropriate information and techniques.

“With that, MAL through its Livestock Department continue to reach out to farmers and provide technical advice, information and conducted training to improve farmer’s capacity or knowledge and skills to ensure they properly manage their farms.”

The training covered the following topics; reasons for keeping animals; the environment that the animals are kept in and, the welfare (wellbeing) of the animals (pigs); planning a pig enterprise; feeding of pigs and sow management; pig disease and parasites in Solomon Islands; pig production; Veterinary tools and techniques and demonstration.

Meanwhile, Atupule said field demonstration was conducted at the newly built piggery project that is owned by Falake community established under the Sustainable Forest Resource Management (SFRM) project, sub-component, livelihood activities which pig farming was selected for Falake community. 

“Field demonstration included animal handling/restraining; tags application; weight estimations and injection of animals (pigs) against both external and internal parasites.”

Cyber Security awareness held at Gizo

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BY BEN BILUA
Gizo

GOVERNMENT Officials are currently in Gizo to carry out Cyber Security awareness.

The team today host a workshop at the Chacha Building for Civil Society Organisations and other Non-government Organisations after they met with Western Province Officials yesterday.

Island Sun understands that Solomon Islands is yet to have a cyber-law – meaning cybercrimes have remain unpunished to some extent.

In October 2020, Plan International Australia, in collaboration with ChildFund Australia and Western Sydney University, launched Online Safety in the Pacific, a report looking at the challenges and opportunities children’s technology use presents in Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea.

The research highlighted a critical gap in access to online safety and digital literacy programs, with children, young people and their families.

The research found that Solomon Islands under-equipped to reap the benefits of the digital age while also staying safe online.

According to the research, children in Solomon Islands is vulnerable to cyberbullying and hacking on social media.

It also found that access to digital technology remains a key challenge, with 50% of children reported that they do not own or have reliable access to a digital device but access parents and friend’s device to scout online.

The research emphasized that parents are responsible to for children’s safety online.

“While many children and young people have a sense of the ways digital technology might contribute to a better world, there is significant scope to encourage them to think more expansively about future opportunities and how digital technology might be mobilised to connect and to participate safely and meaningfully,” the research states.

Talifilu: democracy is worth standing for

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Premier Suidani is carried on a platform as he and his delegation was welcome by Malaitans in Auki .

BY SAMIE WAIKORI

Auki

ADVISOR to Premier Daniel Suidani, Celsius Talifilu stressed to the public in Auki yesterday that democracy is worth standing for.

He made the statement during a reception held in Auki yesterday to welcome premier Suidani home.

Part of the crowd at Auki Market where speeches are made during the welcome ceremony yesterday.

Talifilu told the people that the reception organized to welcome Suidani showed what freedom is, this is freedom, this is how people should happy about good things.

He said Malaitans deserve good things and “who will stop it from them?”

Premier Daniel Suidani’s advisor, Mr Celsius Talifilu is presented with a traditional club from Sisifiu dancers during the welcome ceremony yesterday.

Talifilu said for those that might stop good things from Malaitan or even the system, they must be wrong.

“This is Malaitans and they want good things too. And we deserve to be recognised as people who have faith in ourselves.

Premier Daniel Suidani meets members of his executive upon his arrival at Auki wharf yesterday.

“Malaita is our land and will be ours forever, no system and no man will stop us from what we want for our land,” he said.

Talifilu told the people that if they look at history, bad things never last. The WW1, WW2 and other wars they all died. Only goodness will prevail.

“Whatever good things that will come, let us perfect it. No one will come and deprive us from these things.

The street of Auki is pack with people as they process to Auki Market where speeches are made.

“As I always say, any system that come upon us, it must help us and not to deprive us.

“Our voice must always be heard and that’s what we are and what we’ll always be,” he said.

Talifilu said that during their trip, they saw and come across people who uphold humanity as humanity.

Suidani and members of his delegation receive shell money gifts from the people of Malaita yesterday.

He said the Taiwanese government through their president has seen the premier as brother and there are those who out there in the world who see that freedom and democracy is worth standing for it.

Talifilu urged Malaitans to remain steadfast in their stand for democracy for there are lots of people out there who also stand and believe in democracy.

Hundreds of people turned up in provincial capital Auki to give Suidani a “hero’s welcome”.

CALL TO HEAL THE NATION

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Solomon Islands National Parliament

Wale says geopolitics has divided our people

By EDDIE OSIFELO

OPPOSITION Leader Matthew Wale calls on Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to take steps to seek healing after geopolitics divided the nation.

Solomon Islands switched diplomatic relationship from Taiwan to China in September 2019.

As a result, the most populated province in the country, Malaita, has opposed the Government’s decision due to lack of nationwide consultation and concern of PRC’s communist system and religion.

Speaking at the special adjournment debate in Parliament early this week, Wale said geopolitics has been the cause of division in our nation.

He said this is not a good thing for a small country and society such as Solomon Islands.

“We have allowed foreign interests to drive wedges between us.

“There is need for maturity and responsibility that rejects the winner-takes-all and the zero sum game mentality,” he said.

“We need to accept that we will not agree on everything.

“And we need to also accept our differences of opinions as legitimate and having space in our national political discourse,” he said.

“We can agree to disagree and live harmoniously together without allowing geopolitics to define who we are and the fault lines that separate us.

“I call on the Prime Minister to take serious genuine steps to seek healing. Megaphone pulpiteering cannot be the way to unite this country,” he said.

In terms of our foreign policy, Wale calls on the government to refrain from taking sides in the geopolitics.

“Yes of course the geopolitics open opportunities to leverage our interests, but we must be open eyed to the pitfalls of suffering the consequences of being trampled by two fighting elephants.

“Our international speeches, our UN votes, etc., must be deliberately crafted to stand a true middle ground that is truly a friend to all and enemy to none,” he said.

Parliament has adjourned to Wednesday 24th November 2021.

No permit to escort Suidani: Mangau

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Premier of Malaita province Daniel Suidani

BY JENNIFER KUSAPA

POLICE Commissioner Mostyn Mangau has clarified that any escort or gathering must go through the right process.

Responding to questions asked in regards to speculations that Malaita Premier Daniel Suidani will be escorted from Quarantine to the wharf once he is released from quarantine, Mangau said no application has been received from anybody to do escort at any time.

He said there are processes and procedures to follow, parties have to make application through the Provincial Police Commander of the Honiara City 14 days prior, and there has to be an approval granted before any escort can be conducted.

“We are aware of the speculation about the proposed escort of the Premier but till now there was no application received, such accord is only given to certain people,” Mangau said.

Mangau said that the country has rules and regulation to abide by and given the situation in Honiara that traffic jam is always a problem, any activities that disturb the flow of traffic without any genuine reason is an offence, and those responsible will face the law.

Mangau also dismissed speculations that police will arrest Suidani upon his release from Quarantine.

He said spreading rumors or false information is not a good attitude.

“We have not received any complaint or allegation from anyone to arrest Suidani, and police cannot just arrest people.

“Anybody has issues with Suidani regarding anything then report it, but for public to just speculate about police arrest on Suidani should be stopped,” Mangau said.

Wale calls for sharing of resources

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Leader of Opposition, Matthew Wale

By EDDIE OSIFELO

OPPOSITION Leader Matthew Wale wants to see decentralisation of resources to the provinces and not Honiara only.

Speaking on the special adjournment motion in Parliament on Wednesday, Wale said decentralised government – Honiara cannot continue to control the governance of the entire country.

He said the result has been that most resources have ended up in Honiara.

“It appears we are in a limbo at present with no sense of direction on this important policy matter.

“We must not, however, create a system of government that will be too expensive for our economy to afford and therefore doom it to failure,” he said.

Furthermore, Wale said the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report and its recommendations now need to be dealt with by Parliament.

“Government has had a very long time to process and decide how it plans to address the recommendations, and it would be good for Parliament to exercise its oversight of that,” he said.

Wale urges gov’t to create jobs

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Eddie Osifelo
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Crowded busstop at the Honiara Central Market.

By EDDIE OSIFELO

OPPOSITION Leader Matthew Wale is urging government to focus its economic policy on job creation.

Speaking at the special adjournment in Parliament on Wednesday, Wale said there is much more, even in these covid times that they can do to create jobs in our economy.

He said families and households are struggling to merely put food on the table.

“Young people coming out of the school’s system have no realistic hope of finding meaningful work.

“This is not the time to stand back and watch what may or may not happen,” he said.

Furthermore, Wale said CEMA revitalization must not destroy the already vibrant private sector participation in the commodities sector.

In addition, Wale said the land policy needs coherence.

“At the very basic level traditional customary rights must be secured.

“Tribes need to have confidence that their inalienable rights will not be vulnerable,” he said.

“However, there are some rights to use of land that are alienable.

“Reforms must ensure security both to tribes of inalienable rights, and security to investors of alienable rights,” he said.

Police condemn rape of student in Auki

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BY JENNIFER KUSAPA

Police have condemned the alleged rape of a 16-year-old student in Auki, Malaita on October 2.

Speaking to reporters yesterday, Commissioner Mostyn Mangau said police will continue to remind public especially young boys and men to respect girls and women as they are more vulnerable to sexual assaults and harassment inside the communities.

Mangau said the victim is a student at one of the schools in Malaita; according to reports supplied from police in Auki, prior to the incident the victim and her cousin sister boarded a public bus to Auki town and met up with the suspect in one of the shops at Auki.

It was at the shop the suspect asked for the victim’s phone number in order for him to send her mobile credits.

The victim gave her mobile number to the suspect.

The suspect also told the victim to call him should she need transport to return home.

Mangau said around 2pm, the suspect himself called the victim’s phone number and asked her if she wanted to be dropped home, there the victim and her cousin sister went to the bus stop and the suspect came and picked them up.

Mangau said the suspect then gave some money to the victim’s cousin sister telling her to go and buy ice-cream; it was when the cousin sister went out to buy ice-cream, the suspect took off with the victim inside the vehicle.

The victim tried to open the door but could not, the suspect drove off with her to Ambu main road and raped her there.

Mangau also said according to police report from Auki the suspect and victim are related.

Mangau also said investigation still continue and calling on people around Auki and Ambu to support police in their investigation.

Father and sons arrested for assault

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BY JENNIFER KUSAPA

A 50-year-old man and his two sons were arrested and charged with assault in Big Ngella, Central province, on Sept 26 this year.

Police Commissioner Mostyn Mangau speaking at his weekly media conference yesterday said police in Tulagi arrested the father and his two sons, youngest being 18 years following an assault incident.

He said the trio are now charged with assault causing actual bodily harm and are currently released on bail awaiting court appearance.

Mangau said according to reports gathered by police in Tulagi, prior to the incident the victim was at home when the two sons went into his house and pulled him out.

Mangau said the sons were sent by their father, however, the motive behind the assault is still unknown, as police investigations is still continuing.

Mangau said according to the report from Tulagi police the suspects unlawfully punched the victim on the face, his back and hit him with a stick.

The suspects also tore the victim’s clothes leaving him naked.

Mangau said there are ways to resolve disputes with each and not resolving to fighting, because taking law into your own hands will not solve anything but will lead to another problem with the law.

He said people living together in communities must always have respect for each other to avoid such problem.

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