Twenty- One years from now, the incidence of diabetes among Fiji’s population could be 50 per cent, equating to a ratio of one diabetic patient for every healthy person. This was revealed by medical officer-in-charge and chair of Diabetes Fiji for the Central and Eastern Division, Dr Lisi Finiasi. He made the assertion while commenting…
Pan pipes, dancers, art, food and music filled the Wellington venue on Friday 18th July for the first official celebration of Solomon Islands National Day in Wellington, New Zealand. The first Solomon High Commissioner to New Zealand, Her Excellency Joy Kere hosted the independence anniversary celebrations. The gathering brought together local dignitaries, Solomon Islanders from…
Renbel premier Lence Tango has been accused of pressurising the ministry of finance and treasury to release a sum of $20,000 to host the Renbel second appointed in Bellona today. The amount was approved by the ministry of provincial government for the occasion. However it was revealed that following the approval Mr Tango went and…
Solomon Islands will lead the region in tackling severe acute malnutrition (SAM) following a first ever training on integrated management in the country and the region starting yesterday. Speaking at the opening of the one week training, chief of UNICEF Solomon Islands field office Yun Jong Kang said this training is important seeing the country’s…
The People’s Alliance Party (PAP) says an Alliance Party government will introduce a nationalization policy to empower Solomon Islanders to retake commerce from foreign hands. The idea of introducing the nationalization policy was discussed in great length at the party’s national convention in Honiara over the weekend. Speakers raised the concern that commerce in Solomon…
What a leader looks like and the importance of women’s political participation will be the focus on two events run by UN Women in Honiara this week in partnership with VOIS Blong Mere and US Embassy. Samoa’s Electoral Commissioner Papali’i Malietau Malietoa will take part in both the two-day Empowerment Series and a week-long Transformational…
The flag of the Pacific Community (SPC) flew at half-mast yesterday, next to the French flag, in a show of solidarity with the homage payed by France to the 118 people, of which 54 French nationals, who perished in the crash of Air Algeria flight AH5017 in Mali. Hosted on French soil in Noumea, New…
Munda’s Helena Goldie Hospital and numerous schools in the Vona Vona and Roviana regions recently received an impressive facelift courtesy of a 26-person team of skilled Australian workers and donors. Early in July, members of Mackay and Rockhampton Rotary Clubs, in Queensland, Australia, arrived in Munda accompanied by two 20-fot shipping containers packed full of…
EUROPEAN Union (EU) has been supporting Solomon Islands through the promotion of good governance and gender issues in the past years will continue to do so. The EU Attaché-Aid cooperation of EU to the Solomon Islands, Lorena Elvira Ayuso highlighted this yesterday at the start of the Transformational Leadership workshop which open in Honiara yesterday.…
The verdict is in: there are no health benefits to drinking alcohol. A European study of more than 260,000 individuals1 has found people who consumed lower amounts of alcohol or were non-drinkers had a more favourable cardiovascular profile and reduced risk of coronary heart disease. The findings of the study were published in the British…