Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Facebook launch new social media campaign to celebrate and showcase local businesses Through a partnership between Meta (formerly Facebook) and the Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI), a new social media campaign has been launched yesterday Monday 15 November to promote local businesses in the…
JED ENTERPRISE Ltd – a Honiara-based road construction and maintenance company – has reportedly earned the attention of the World Bank. The company is doing road repairs in the Auki township and as far north as Gwaunaru’u Airport and Kwaibala in the south. The quality of workmanship by JED Enterprises Ltd on the roads around…
AN estimated 20% of land in Solomon Islands is legally registered. That’s according to International Finance Cooperation (ICF) Tourism Consultant Björn Svensson. Mr. Svensson highlighted this in his presentation during the launching of the Western Province Investable Sites Report and Solomon Islands Tourism Investment guide on Friday at Heritage Park Hotel in Honiara. The 20%…
IN a move designed to tap into the huge Chinese market, businessmen in Honiara have set up a Solomon Islands Chinese Business Council (SCBC). As Its first formal engagement, SCBC members paid a courtesy call on the Embassy in Honiara on Tuesday 9th November, In a statement issued after the visit, SCBC Chairman Antonio Lee…
Solomon Airlines will commence fortnightly passenger flights from Honiara to Sydney, with the airline’s Airbus A320 then continuing on to Brisbane. The Sydney services will initially operate during November and December only, flying Honiara-Sydney-Brisbane on 19 November, 3 December and 17 December, a statement issued by Solomon Airlines said yesterday. Flight IE710 will depart Honiara…
THE COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout has hit hard on the country’s economy. Head of International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Solomon Islands Jarkko Turunen during the IMF virtual press conference yesterday said while the government stringent measures are required to contain and suppress the pandemic to protect lives, these measures will also increase the…
SOLOMON Power has opened its new office in Tulagi, Central Province on Friday as it continues to extends its operation nation-wide. Central Provincial Premier Stanley Manetiva in honouring the opening of the new classic Solomon Power office building in Tulagi said such development is much needed as there are expansion of settlement on the island.…
ONE of the largest fisheries surveillance operations in the world, Operation Kurukuru, came to a successful close on Thursday following 12 days of international co-operation to target Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing in the Pacific. Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Director Fisheries Operations, Allan Rahari said the FFA-coordinated Operation combined intelligence gathering, analysis…
OUR Telekom is investing millions of dollars ($) in telecommunication infrastructure development that will see thirty-five 2G sites nation-wide being upgraded and operational as early as next year. In a paid feature which appeared in the Solomon Star newspaper, it highlighted that this massive undertaking is part of the company’s Second Business Transformation Project. These…
Fake $50 note discovered, confiscated in Gizo A FAKE $50 note has been discovered in Gizo, Western Province when a man attempts to make a deposit at the Bank South Pacific (BSP) this week. Information received from locals who witnessed the incident said the man’s intention was to deposit the cash at BSP Gizo. “He…