Commonwealth Day was marked on Sunday with a seven kilometre walk through Honiara following the Commonwealth Walkway.
United Kingdom High Commissioner Paul Turner walked alongside Girl Guides and Scouts on the 7km journey starting from Unity Square ending at St Barnabas Cathedral.
This walk also launched Honiara’s Commonwealth Walkway.
The Honiara Commonwealth Walkway is a seven-kilometre route with points of interest along its path, including the Solomon Islands National Museum, the National Art Gallery, the National Parliament of Solomon Islands, the Guadalcanal Memorial, the Holy Cross Cathedral, Lawson Tama Stadium, St Barnabas Anglican Cathedral, the Honiara Central Market and the Solomon Scouts and Coast Watchers monument at Commonwealth Street.
Each Commonwealth country has a Commonwealth Walkway in its capital city; the Walkway connects every nation in the Commonwealth, covering a third of the world’s population.
It is designed to link and engage people in their shared history and tradition and to promote the Commonwealth principles and values of diversity, equality and friendship and keep people active
High Commissioner Turner together with the Solomon Islands Scouts and Guides walked starting at the National Art Gallery, to the National Museum and on to the Coast Watcher monument.
They then headed to the Holy Cross Cathedral and St Barnabas Church.
At each of these points of interest, they unveiled brass medals installed onto concrete plinths to mark the Commonwealth Walkway.
Commonwealth Day is on March 10. This year’s theme for Commonwealth Day is ‘Together We Thrive’, celebrating the enduring spirit of the Commonwealth family – 56 independent member countries united by shared values enshrined in the Commonwealth Charter
