Environment

HIGH SWELLS

-Low-lying communities across country report unprecedented sea water inundation -Makira communities hit hard, survivors share experience BY JENNIFER KUSAPA A series of high swells is causing havoc in low-lying coastal areas and atolls across the country facing the northern side…

LOGGING ROW

-Choiseul gov’t and landowning tribe decry operations by company without provincial business licence -Company says its actions based on ‘verbal agreement’ BY IRWIN ANGIKI A logging company has landed and is operating in South Choiseul without any business licence from…

$150M FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE

Solomons to get assistance from UNDP, WHO, GEF project Solomon Islands stands to benefit from a USD17.85 million (about SBD 150 million) project to support climate resilient health systems. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Development Programme…

Participants hail SIIVA weeklong training

BY NED GAGAHE Participants that attended the Solomon Islands Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (SIIVA) weeklong workshop have commended the training saying it is really useful and relevant to their work. The weeklong training commenced on Monday 27th March and will conclude…

Mayor Siapu commends JICA’s LEAF project

BY NED GAGAHE Mayor Eddie Siapu says Honiara City is honoured to host Learning Ecological Activities Foundation (LEAF) project under the JICA partnership programme which supports environmental educations. Speaking at the LEAF project session and forum towards promoting relations between…

2 CITIES, FRIENDS

Honiara and Japan’s Nishinomiya collaborate for a better, cleaner future BY NED GAGAHE Honiara city’s poor rubbish and waste collection and management system could be a thing of the past as it joins hands with Japan’s Nishinomiya City. Leaders of…