Welcome To Solomon Islands In Focus

As a long­time friend of the Solomon Islands, let me say the aim of this website is to bring you news about the Solomon Islands, promote tourism to the "Happy Isles” and generate donations for causes in the Solomons that will provide income for charitable institutions dependent on aid and help to give much needed money for local craftsmen and women.

I would encourage you to see for yourself a most unique and different part of the world and meet friendly, hospitable people while enjoying the sheer delights and beauty of a easy accessible Pacific paradise.

SEEKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS FOR THE DISABLED

 
Honiara :  8  October 2017
 
Letter to the Editors, Solomon Star and Island Sun newspapers.
 
A REPORT OF UP TO 400 ALLEGEDLY WAITING FOR PROSTHETIC LIMBS IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS
 
I received startling news this morning, Sunday, that there are possibly up to 400 people in the Solomon Islands awaiting artificial or prosthetic limbs following surgery and that the facility that was once adequate for the manufacture and fitting of artificial limbs is no longer adequate or equipped to handle the demand from awaiting patients.
 
I do not know if what I have been told is wholly correct and I have sought information from the appropriate local health authorities in the MOHMS.
 
In the interim, and assuming the information I was sent is correct, I have been in touch with 'Take My Hands' Charitable Trust in Auckland, New Zealand, to see if that organization could assist with shipping artificial limbs and possibly aiding the re-establishment or re-staffing of the once orthopaedic workshop.
 
An initial reply from TMH has been rather positive so I am hopefully I can get all the information I need quickly to relay the information back and help relieve the situation.

SHOWCASING PACIFIC BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS

Pacific businesses from the region showcase products to NZ

Quoting Radio New Zealand International – 21 March 2018

“Pacific Trade Invest New Zealand is launching a new market to showcase how businesses from the region are stepping up globally.

“The aim is to help Pacific exporters promote their products to the New Zealand market.

“Pacific Trade Invest New Zealand Trade Development Manager, Joe Fuavao, said around 40 companies from eleven Pacific countries will be taking part.

“Mr Fuavao said the main object for the companies at the festival is to test their products to New Zealand consumers and gauge an immediate response.

"The real benefit of having the Pasifika Business Market for our companies is that we're able to bring a point of difference by bringing a range of companies from other Pacific Islands countries that do not currently have a village," he said.

"This includes countries such as Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia as well as the strong contingent from Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands."

“The new project called Pasifika Business Market will debut at Auckland's Pasifika Festival this weekend.”

Copyright:  RNZI 2018   (All Rights Reserved)

ON THE BRINK OF ALMOST TOTAL DE_FORESTATION DCCG PRESSURE SHIFTS TO REFORETATION

Honiara :  9 April 2017
Letter to the Editor,  Solomon Star and Island Sun Newspapers.
An estimated 93 percent of the country’s virgin forest has been lost the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Forestry and Research, Mr Vaeno Vigulu, announced in a recent speech.
The main drivers of such deforestation having been commercial logging, he cited.
Fortunately, at the last hour, so to say, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Ministry of Forest and Research sealed a five-year Forest Management project last month.
The project will focus on capacity development for sustainable forest resources management and hopefully will assist in developing an effective forest resource management model that will boost capacity building and transform livelihood approaches giving resource owners and the industry at large a better position on harvesting the county’s forest resources.

ECONOMIC ZONES SURVEYED

Honiara : 23 November 2015

Letter to the Editor, Solomon Star Newspaper Last week I felt the need for a change of air and took a two hour bus trip to the seaside beach resort of Pattaya, 147 km southeast of Bangkok. I hadn’t been there for ten years and what I saw along the route was a complete eye opener and prompted my thoughts about the Solomon Islands vision of creating free economic zones to boost the national economy and create job opportunities.

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