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World Environment Day: Connecting people to nature – reflections for Solomon Islands

EVERY year, June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day worldwide. It is the United Nation’s principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Each year a theme is adopted to advocate on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. This year 2017, the theme was ‘connecting people to nature’. It invited us to get into nature, appreciate its beauty, and think about how we are part of nature and how intimately we depend on it. This article is a personal reflection of how true this theme is for

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Planned relocation of the NRH accident and emergency ward

Dear Editor, IT is expected the NRH Accident and Emergency Ward will be relocated to two temporary buildings in September to allow an inspection and assessment of the present A&E

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A combined effort sees the arrival of donated equipment reach NRH

Dear Editor, THANKS to the very kind and generous donation of a Brisbane based doctor and staff members of Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology Laboratory, also in Brisbane, the NRH has received

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110 year old former Solomon Islands Coastwatcher to receive a medallion

Dear Editor, ACCORDING to a broadcast on Radio New Zealand International, today, Wednesday, and quoting Sir Bruce Saunders in Honiara, a local 110 year old gentleman, a former Coastwatcher during

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75th commemoration of the battle of Guadalcanal – Lest we Forget

DEAR EDITOR, ‘Bloody Ridge’ the site of one of the major battle sites during the six month long battle of Guadalcanal in World War 11 will be declared a national

New temporary Labour ward for the NRH

IN June this year the NRH was forced to close the hospitals only labour ward because of concerns over its dilapidated state and when staff were being put into situations

Producing virgin oil providing a source of income in Matanagoa village, Makira Ulawa Province

A crushing mill provided and installed by World Vision under its Community Economic Development (CED) Project is providing the residents of Matanagoa Village in Makira-Ulawa Province a ready source of

Regional Pacific news with an eye to Solomon Islands

A round-up of regional Pacific news this week broadcast by Radio New Zealand International focused on events close to home in the Solomon Islands and are worth mentioning. An advocacy group

GRIM forecast on Climate Change

Dear Editor, ACCORDING to a grim report by Oliver Milman in the UK Guardian newspaper, there is only a 5% chance that the Earth will avoid warming by at least

Reported sinking of a tug boat in Solomon Islands waters.

Dear Editor, Honiara : 28 July 2017 SOLOMON Islands local newspaper, the Solomon Star reported, today, the sinking of a tug boat near Bungana Island in the Central Province on

Ombudsman Bill 2016

Dear Editor, THE Solomon Islands Parliament has passed the Ombudsman Bill 2016 in what is regarded as a first step by the Solomon Islands Government in the fight against corruption.

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