Looking at Solomon Islands Commodity Export Marketing Authority (CEMA) and its mandate.
Frank Short 11-Jun-2021
Under the provisions of local legislation CEMA is tasked with regulating commodities under its regulator functionNZ Save the Children helping our close neighbour Fiji with grocery packs for desperate families
Frank Short 11-Jun-2021
While in the Solomon Islands the government with the work of the MHMS, front line personnel and diplomatic partners and international agencies has so-Jargon investigated and explained
Frank Short 11-Jun-2021
A couple of days ago I wrote saying a ground breaking ceremony for a new office space for a National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) was held in HoniaSI MHMS has issued a medical advisory alert to all parents to protect their children from diarrhea.
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The special advisory notice was published in today’s edition of the Solomon Star newspaper, and I quote it because of its essential health warniChild protection training given to communities and schools with advice on disability inclusiveness and equality
Frank Short 11-Jun-2021
I was pleased to read in the Island Sun newspaper of a World Vision sponsored programme delivered recently to four communities and four schoolsThe NRH completes a mid-term review and planning objectives
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It was reported in the Solomon Times Online, today, that the Senior Executive Management of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) and NatA call for NZ to follow Pacific neighbours and implement sugar taxes
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Radio New Zealand reported in a news bulletin today, Wednesday, that a researcher says New Zealand needs to follow the example set by its PacificCEMA’s Revitalisation and Recapitalisation Strategy 2021 – 2027 unfolding.
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News in the Island Sun newspaper today, Friday, said the Export Commodity Market Authority (CEMA) Trading Centre at Noro is expected to reopen at theSolomon Island’s transport network to be boosted with $150 million support from the ADB
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News relayed in an article in the Solomon Times Online today said the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved support of almost $150 million to boosWHO reportedly to launch a framework called ‘Action the Promises’ furthering the cause of the PWD community
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The local workshop on inclusivity for persons with disability held in Honiara has ended. Irwin Angika a staff reporter with the Island Sun newspapeThe bigger picture
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According to today’s Solomon Star newspaper, Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare had his 2nd dose of COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday morninPersons with disability teach what the word means leaving SI journalists with admiration, sadness and respect
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Writing today in the Island Sun newspaper, Irwin Angiki, wrote about disability and a workshop held in Honiara yesterday. This is Irwin's storSI Paramount Chief issues a warning about fake land owners
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Mr.John Saketala, a Paramount Chief of Ghaobata House of Chiefs in East Guadalcanal, has warned people not to purchase land outside of the East HoniarNutrition, eating habits and wellness
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In contributing to the debate on NCDs that are a major health issue in the Solomon Islands to people and the health services, I want, today, to add aSolomon Islanders living with disabilities are suffering from discrimination of all sorts
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In a day-three of the ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ workshop in Honiara, yesterday, participants living with disability gave powerful andHuge interest and demand for cassava exports, says MD of Sape Farm
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One of the Government’s funded agriculture projects through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL), Sape farm is bearing successful resEducational support and training
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???????There was a quotation that came to mind as I glanced through the pages of the Solomon Times Online this morning and the quotation just about coPacific Islands are likely the next travel bubble
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???????In the Australian I read today, Thursday, Gerald Cockburn wrote the Pacific Islands are being tipped as the next phase in Australia’s traA call for Non-Communicable Disease NCD Clinics around the country
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Dr Jones Ghabu, a consultant physician for Non-Communicable Diseases at the Diabetic Centre, at the National Referral Hospital (NRH), has said there iVegetable, fruit and crop production training for women in West Wainoni
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The members of the West Wainoni Council of Women in East Makira of Makira Ulawa Province have undergone five sessions of training on vegetable, fruitLooking at Taro exports from the Solomon Islands
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Last week the Solomon Star newspaper reported on the possibility of taro being exported once a secure market overseas was obtained.Greening the national capital
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I have been reading this morning an article by Peter Forau which featured in the Island Sun newspaper and which focused on what the writer described aAlleged fishy dealings arising from reported negotiations at the WTO in Geneva
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The Solomon Times Online published today that global talks to reign in global fisheries subsidies are failing to hold big, rich and powerful subsidizeService, tradition and industry – a combination of stories
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When I awoke this morning I had two thoughts in mind. The first was because of the date being the 2 June.Australian court rejects challenge to Australian government ban on foreign travel
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An interesting PA Media report from the UK today with an article by Rod McGuirk of the Associated Press writing that an Australian court has rejectedSolomon Islands as a WTO member seeing EIF benefits
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MFAET) has acknowledged another mile stone achieved by the Solomon Islands Enhanced Integrated FraCEMA crucial for jobs, access to markets and for growing the rural economy
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The Prime Minister, Hon. Manasseh Sogavare has officially launched the CEMA “Revitalization and Recapitalization Strategy” and formally deOpening of the Rade Aekoa Rural Health Clinic
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The Island Sun newspaper today gave news of the official opening of the Rade Aekoa Rural Health Clinic in Malaita, co-funded by the Japanese governmenLepi Holy Trinity Church
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After 33 years of encountering challenges, the people of Lepi village in Gao Bugotu constituency, Isabel province consecrated their multi-million-dollModified boat launched and put to operational use as a Sea Ambulance
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At the beginning of this month, I read in a MHMS press release of an important and much needed development which told of a 24 foot fiberglass boat thaReflecting on community policing policy initiated 24 yrs ago in the SI that works today
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In 1997 when police establishment numbers were below 700 for the whole country, given there was a strict moratorium on recruitment due to the massive“Keeping open the possibility of expanding the trans-Tasman bubble, and looking to Pacific countries first,” says NZ Prime Minister.
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NZ’s PM meeting in New Zealand with the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, RNZI had this to say, and I quote.Appreciative work of the RSIPF in raising public awareness of the danger posed by Covid-19
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In keeping with the true intentions of community policing, a policy I introduced in the local police operational plans in 1997, I have been followingSolomon Islands remains Covid free after a month
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In his recent nationwide address, the Prime Minister announced that the Solomon Islands has been COVID-19 free now for more than a month.Governor-General highlights the need for regular physical exercise to ward off illness
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His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir David Vunagi, GCMG, was an invited guest at the annual fun run organized by the Honiara Rotary Club recently.Plasticwise Gizo, launch programme to address solid wastes sun as plastic
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Plasticwise Gizo is a leading local Non-Government Organisation based in Gizo Western Province. The Organisation has gained regional and internationalIs changing mindsets still the biggest concern in respect of gender equality and the ending of domestic and family violence?
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In late December last year, the Australian High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands, Dr Lachlan Strahan, together with representatives from the MinistAustralia's PM arrives in New Zealand for talks
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The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has touched down in Queenstown, saying extending the trans-Tasman bubble into the Pacific is a "reLooking at the success of the Solomon Islands Covid free status in the light of regional coronavirus outbreaks.
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The Solomon Islands remains free of Covid 19 and, as I have previously mentioned, credit for this is due to the efficient and effective early emergencRenovation of the NRH’s isolation ward nearing completion
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The Island Sun newspaper has reported today that the Covid-19 isolation ward renovation at the National Referral Hospital funded by the government ofCommunities expected to benefit from bylaws in Malaita province
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I read today in the Island Sun newspaper that a total of 34 communities in five wards in Malaita province have launched and enforced their community b85 year old but stil committed to the electoral process.
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The story of 85 year old Rinnie Barigakapathe from Malango in South Choiserul who was amongst the first to cast her vote during the recent by-electionGuadalcanal Noni farmers get tools and wheel barrows from MAL
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According to the Island Sun newspaper, today, it was said the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) through its Guadalcanal Agriculture ExtNew road upgrade for Honiara settlements facilitates better access to services
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People living in Kombivatu, Feraladoa, Ferakusia, and Matariu will no longer face delays when travelling to town to access services like markets, schoCould you have silent diabetes? Here’s how to tell – and what you can do about it
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I am back writing about Type 2 diabetes again and I do so because of the prevalence of the disease in the Solomon Islands, the consequences of the disSt John Ambulance personnel deserve our grateful respect and protection
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The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) condemns in the strongest possible term the disrespect and disregard displayed towards the importanFamily Support Centre assists in reviewing Moli ward by-law after a period of 11 years
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According to an article in today’s Island Sun newspaper, the Family Support Centre (FSC) office recently conducted a workshop in Sukiki vilSawmill operators given hands-on training in West Kwara’ae
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The Ministry of Forestry and Research together with the Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA) under the Sustainable Forest Resource MaSeveral Uni undergraduates said to have joined the SES on Australian Farms
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A handful of jobless local university graduates have left the country to join the Pacific Seasonal Workers Scheme this year in searching for employmenMAL looking forward to implement MEAs national activities with FAO
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According to in the Island Sun newspaper in an article published today, Tuesday, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) is looking forward toThe rights, needs and welfare of amputees must be supported by all advocating disability causes as part of their mandate
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The first letter I wrote when I introduced my website www.solomonisalandsinfocus.com in 2014 focused on the plight of a relatively young manAustralia working with SolTuna for a childcare centre for its workers.
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Australia’s Strongim Bisnis is working with SolTuna to establish a childcare centre at the SolTuna cannery in Noro.Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment embraced by the UN
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Last week I read in the Solomon Star newspaper that the Minister for the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs (MWYCFA), Freda RangireToo many eggs in one basket
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Cook Islands Tourism Industry Council president Liana Scott has said up to 80 percent of the country's GDP was tied up in tourism and wondered ifThe MWYCFA Ministry one of the smallest government ministries but with the biggest mandate
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The Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs (MWYCFA) has welcomed the Poverty Reduction China-Solomon Islands virtual dialogue.Transforming digital trade and business across the Pacific
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As the Covid pandemic has brought a change to how business in conducted now and how digital trading will feature more post Covid, I share with you theGeneral hospital services as well as rural health care needs
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In terms of what the WHO defines as the services needed to be provided at a general hospital, they include the ability of medical staff to handle surgCultural Basis for Development in Solomon Islands
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Quoting an article by Gordon Leua Nanau and Lincy Pendeverana published in today’s edition of the Solomon Times OnlinA new approach to CDF leading to tangible development in rural communities
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In writing this piece my interest is on the way CDF projects are being implemented that is ensuring tangible developments in rural communities with reUNDP launches dialogues on disabilities rights for inclusive and resilient communities
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A much welcome initiative has seen the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Solomon Islands, under the Outstanding Women initiative, launch a series oMelbourne based food supplier wants 100 tons of SI cassava every year to meet local targets
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It has been reported in today’s Island Sun newspaper that Melbourne-based Vinay Reddy, the Managing Director of Vinay’s Food, has been buySI’s Prime Minister gives an assurance to upgrade Tulagi Hospital to a general hospital
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Last week in a nationwide address the Prime Minister said the government will upgrade the Tulagi Hospital into a fully-fledged general hospital.Australia helping timber growers on Kolombangara and aiding local jobs
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Australia’s Strongnim Bisnis is working with Kolombangara Forest Products Limited (KFPL) to support small timber growers (out-growers) on KolombMAL secures land for a National Agricultural Project
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According to news published in today’s Island Sun newspaper, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has secured a 37.5 hectare ofA light steel factory expected to provide local job opportunities
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Construction of a light steel factory is underway near the Mamara New City project west of Honiara, which will provide more job opportunities for locaSolomon Islands economy faring better than anticipated despite some shortfalls
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??????? It was this time a year ago that the government and Solomon Islanders were apprehensive about the future following the declaration of thePublic appeal sees a reported sum of $30,000 donated to-date to aid sick child
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16-year-old Linta Botho, who is said to need medical treatment and surgery in Australia for a heart condition has been supported by a very generous doA reflection on the Solomon Islands unexploded WWII ordinance and the aftermath of a recent bomb blast
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Over 100 US 105mm high explosive bombs that remained after the Second World War were recently unearthed and removed from Gilbert Camp, East Honiara.Could the Goodridge Foundation in Australia and the Israeli Embassy in Canberra help with urgent heart surgery for a sick young girl in the Solomon Islands
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This week the Solomon Star newspaper gave details of the plight of 16 year old Linta Mabo of Mabo Roghavolo village in North Guadalcanal who is sufferUlawa clinic being repaired with support from Kirakira Hospital and Makira provincial health division
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It is not very often that one gets to learn of a rural health clinic that was in a poor state of repair being renovated and restored to allow for locaConsidering the proposed West Kwaio pineapple processing plant, and some health facts about pineapples
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In April this year I wrote about a proposed a ‘Bonale Pineapple processing plant in West Kwaio with then discussions taking place to set up a CoNZ’s Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme (RSES)
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In a speech in the New Zealand Parliament today Tourism Minister Stuart Nash, standing in for the NZ Immigration Minister, spoke about what the governIs an investment partnership programme a likely prospect for the Solomon Islands?
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It is some years since the Prime Minister heralded the prospect of Special Economic Zones being created in selected areas of the Solomon Islands.At what point could a travel bubble between Covid free Solomon Islands and Australia be considered?
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In the Solomon Islands 10,000 have been vaccinated against coronavirus and more are expected to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and months – v