LAST Sunday’s tsunami warning sparked a mass evacuation of patients at Buala Hospital, Isabel. The nation-wide warning was issued following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck near Kirakira, Makira-Ulawa Province, before 8am. The Solomon Star witnessed the evacuation exercise at Buala hospital after the warning was issued on the national broadcaster. A spokesman for the…
AN allocation of funds for natural disasters should be allocated each year under the national budget, a prominent MP suggests. East Choiseul MP Manasseh Sogavare said this is important to allow the national government responds swiftly to natural disasters. He was contributing to the debate on the ‘2014 Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2014’ in parliament yesterday.…
THE United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is warning countries to step up monitoring, reporting and prevention to tackle one of the world’s most destructive banana diseases, Fusarium wilt, which recently spread from Asia to Africa and the Middle-East, and is now menacing Latin American countries. According to FAO, banana is the eighth most…
SAVE the Children is currently assisting the Guadalcanal Province Emergency Operation Centre (GPEOC) with distribution of relief supplies and assessment of damages in Guadalcanal Province. Distribution of food supplies to evacuation centres and affected areas in Guadalcanal was conducted on the weekend and continues this week. Save the Children has been taking part in assessments…
THE Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) on Tuesday welcomed a visiting delegation of senior military and government personnel from the United States National Defense University in Washington to the Mission’s base at Guadalcanal Beach Resort, Henderson, east Honiara. The 19 personnel from the US National Defense University are in Solomon Islands as part…
As part of speeding up the recovery effort following the recent disaster Credit Corporation has stepped to offer $100,000 to World Vision for relief work. The recent flood claimed 21 lives, destroyed livelihoods and left thousands homeless. Credit Corporation general manager Tony Langston personally handed over the cheque to Country Director Dr Andrew Catford in…
OFFICIALS are still assessing the damage caused by two large earthquakes in Bougainville in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. On Friday, a magnitude 7.1 quake hit off the coast of Bougainville. A magnitude 7.6 quake struck 100 kilometres south of Kira Kira, the capital of Makira Province, in Solomon Islands early on Sunday. …
THE Ministry of Infrastructure Development says it is committed to begin repair works on bridges and roads affected by the recent flash floods in Honiara and Guadalcanal. Speaking during a press conference in Honiara this week, director of civil engineering Harry Kiri said the ministry has already began working on affected infrastructures with the support…
AUSTRALIA’S Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove has send condolences to the people of Solomon Islands who have been devastated following the April 3 floods which killed 21 people and left thousands homeless. In a message to his counterpart, Sir Frank Kabui on April 4, Sir Peter said he was shocked and saddened to learn of…
DEPUTY Police Commissioner Walter Kola has blamed a flat tyre on an accident he was involved in the early hours of last Friday. Mr Kola reportedly hit a post outside the Central Police Station in Honiara, damaging the front of the police executive vehicle he was driving. He said he was the only officer in…