PARLIAMENTARY Secretary to Australian Foreign Minister, Senator Brett Mason has conveyed Australia’s deepest condolences to Prime Minister Gordon Darcy, his Government and the people of Solomon Islands. Mr Mason conveyed the message on behalf of the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to Prime Minister Lilo during a brief meeting in…
A NUMBER of villages near Gold Ridge were deserted this week. Raymond Piti, who was one of those escaped, said villagers feared the Gold Ridge Mining tailing dam would collapse. “On Wednesday evening, many people residing in villages downstream escaped to the GPPOL areas,” he said. “The tailing damn has reached its maximum capacity during…
Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) CEO, Josefa ‘Jo’ Tuamoto has ensured the watching world is being kept fully up to date with all developments taking place in the Solomon Islands as the nation begins the arduous task of cleaning up after last week’s tumultuous events. In a secondary statement issued on Wednesday, Mr Tuamoto has…
Since the washing away of the old Mataniko bridge in Chinatown last Thursday vehicles and pedestrians have been badly affected by the cut-off. For over nearly a week the public have to travel further by foot and vehicle and crossed the main Mataniko bridge inorder to reach the Point Cruz area or Chinatown. And this…
The East Malaita region which was affected by last week’s flash floods has called on the national disaster management office (NDMO) to carryout assessment on the remote region. In October last year, the region was also badly affected by flood and was declared a disaster zone where they were aided with relief supplies. Eight months…
QUEEN Elizabeth II has send deepest condolences to the Government and people of Solomon Islands following the devastating floods that killed at least 23 people and left thousands homeless. In a message to the Governor General Sir Frank Kabui on Monday 7th April, the Queen said she was deeply saddened to learn of the devastating…
KENTON Foafasi was still packing his family’s belonging at their Koa Hill home when Mataniko river bursts its bank last Thursday. “All of a sudden the waters and debris came rushing through,” the 24-year-old recalled as he lay in his hospital bed at the National Referral Hospital last weekend. “Our house was the first to…
A CONSIGNMENT of clothes and cooking utensil is on its way to Honiara to assist in relief efforts now underway. Western provincial premier Robert Pye Kuve formally handed the consignment to provincial disaster officer Silas Arukwai, provincial disaster chairman Eric Kikolo before they were loaded onboard local ferry – MV Fair Glory. The boat left…
THE United Kingdom government has announced it will help thousands of people whose homes and livelihoods have been washed away by floods last week. Flash floods last week have affected over 50,000 people and left 10,000 people in evacuation centres. Thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed in the capital Honiara and Guadalcanal province…
THE Japanese government is providing relief assistance worth a million dollar to flood stricken areas of Honiara and parts of Guadalcanal. Satoshi Nakajima, Ambassador and Chargés d’affaires at the Embassy of Japan on Wednesday announced that the Japanese Government will assist in providing emergency relief supplies. This was in response to the request made by…