Matavale Women’s Association Project Manager, Ellen Paieke, has been awarded the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund, WPHF and Women Have Wings winners of the 2022 Civil Society Organisations Peer Learning Awards. The announcement was made this week after a competitive selection among WPHF CSOs globally. This initiative aims to recognise the efforts of ten women leaders engaged in peace and humanitarian…
FOR more than 36 years, she toils the soil to grow food, walks daily, spends hours at her garden, travels by sea and spends days to sell her produce at the main Gizo market in Western Province. That’s her routine every weeks and months just to make ends meet and ensure her family’s survival is…
MISS Solomon Islands, Tiare Haro, visited the camp of the Fiji Contingent of the Solomons International Assistance Force to be given a general overview of the roles and responsibilities of the contingent as part of the regional assistance force. SIAF was deployed to Honiara following the November 2021 Riot. It comprises contingents from Australia and…
Gizo: IN Solomon Islands its not often you hear a female doing some of the men’s heavy duty job. This is because of our culture where a women’s workshop is often at the garden and inside the kitchen. However, this is slowly changing as more women are taking up training to do some of the…
“When helping women in our villages – Government is not wasting money; in fact, women need support and guidance to even start businesses or access to finance”, stated Deputy Secretary Ministry of Commerce Mr Eric George in response to an article by the Island Sun “Waste of Money”. For Sepi Women Inshore Fisheries Initiative it…
MALAITA Provincial Council of Women (MPCW) has reiterated its call to the government to enforce restriction on import of yeast in the country. President of MPCW Martha Rurai last week said the availability of yeast everywhere at shops provide an opportunity for people to produce illegal kwaso products which drive most young people into violence…
A shift to weaving craft with some modern touch brings out the creativity of the art that attracts a wider market in an industry that is slow to attract public interest. Art and craft is a field that is of the least interest in a young person. But this is different for Linley Hatiah, the…
MISS Solomon Islands, Tiare Haro’s, recent Christmas holiday at her father’s home village of Tetemara, Viru Habour, Western Province, has inspired youths to be determined to pursue their dreams. Miss Haro travelled to her father’s village after being crowned the Miss Solomon Islands 2022-2023 last month. She is of mixed parentage. Her father, Alex Haro,…
SOLOMON Airlines has promoted one of its female pilots to Captain of the national carrier’s largest domestic aircraft – Dash 8. Lyndah Tito Owen was Dash 8 First Officer before officially receiving her Captain’s epaulettes yesterday (3rd January 2023) with a water cannon salute to mark the occasion. A statement from Solomon Airlines said her…
THE Chair to the Solomon Islands Independent Commission Against Corruption (SIICAC), Anika Kingmele, last week highlighted why corruption should be fought against in the country. She was speaking during the celebration of the International Day Against Corruption at the National Auditorium in Honiara. She said it is important for any country or any sector to…