By Loretta B Manele
The Government for National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) is confident to deliver its key policy agenda amidst challenges.
Manele stressed on this whilst speaking at his press conference earlier this week.
He said GNUT is only 11 months old since taking office in May last year.
Manele expressed that they have just completed the first quarter of 2025 which is a full year of GNUT’s endeavour to transform the economic, social, cultural, spiritual and political landscape of the country’s through implementation of programs under the key pillars of its key policy agenda namely; economic transformation, infrastructure development, unity and stability and human capital development.
He stated that their first challenge was the Motion of No-Confidence which was subsequently withdrawn on the floor of parliament.
Another challenge mentioned is the ongoing global conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza of which the Prime Minister said has impacted the Solomon Islands economy negatively.
Manele highlighted that these effects will be magnified by another challenge, the recent imposition of 10% tariff on Solomon Islands and on some of our important trading partners by the United States.
He stressed that despite these setbacks, GNUT is confident that Solomon Islands will navigate these trade and economic challenges and stay focused on its goal to try and transform our economy through strategic interventions aimed at delivering on our four key policies.
Moreover, he reiterated that GNUT is only 11 months old however has already implemented measures that commenced its transformational journey.
On this note, Manele said for the rest of 2025, they expect to further progress the federal and state government issue through the meetings of the constituent assembly process and hopefully will be able to get that amendment so that the work of the constituent assembly can move ahead.
“We will also progress the other areas of strategic focus to drive our transformation agenda through our various line ministries.”
Manele further stated that the government will step up their collaboration with all provinces and stakeholders including development partners to ensure they work as one team for the country.
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