Environment

The Leader of Independent Group in Parliament, John Dean Kuku, has called on the DCGA to immediately ban foreigners from applying and obtaining licences to export beche-de-mer, and give the opportunity to local indigenous...

8 months no ship, schools closed, no food & medicine BY IRWIN ANGIKI February was the last time a ship visited Sikaiana. Now, eight months later, people are reportedly starving. “There is no food, medicine, the school...

Government issued 435 licences to logging companies By EDDIE OSIFELO MINISTRY of Forest and Research has issued a total of 435 licences to logging companies operating throughout the country. These include 281 valid licences and 154 operation...

BY BEN BILUAGizo SOLOMON Islands Meteorological Service has issued Strong Warning Ten (10) today with six provinces urged to take extra precaution. Guadalcanal, Central, Malaita, Rennell, and Belona, Makira, and Temotu province are listed as vulnerable...

By EDDIE OSIFELO NEW shareholder company, Hangzhou Gowin Mineral Product Ltd, has clarified the nickel operation by the former Solomon Islands Resources Company Limited (SIRCL) and operator, New Asia on Suma tenement, Isabel province. This was...

BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO THE people of Lord Howe islands are struggling to adjust to the effects and impacts of climate change. Sea level rise and salt water intrusion are some of the effects felt by...

THREE local Rural Training Centres have developed a system that will deal with the issue of plastic waste in the country. The three institutions are part of a project partnership with the Solomon Islands Association...

PM Sopoaga gives these powerful words to earth’s first-world countries   BY CHARLES KADAMANA In Funafuti, Tuvalu THERE is no safe place in the world due to climate change and Tuvalu will not be taking any option of...

Gov’t backs Malaysian logger to export illegally-cut Tubi BY EDDIE OSIFELO A Malaysian logging company, Sunrise Investments Limited has exported more than 10,000 cubic meters of Xanthostemon logs (tubi) from Korona, San Jorge, Isabel province. This...

Schuijl produces documentary about Ontong Java BY ALFRED PAGEPITU A feature-length documentary on Ontong Java, in the Malaita Outer Islands, whose inhabitants continue to live under existential threats of climate change has been released. Two filmakers from...