Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Young Queen’s leader recipient working on a ‘back to school’ project
AFTER receiving her recent Young Queen Leaders award, Karrie Jionisi has said she now wants to work on a project to help school dropouts. She told the SIBC that she had started a project called ‘Back to School’ to involve everyone who had dropped out of school to become involved in the project. She said the idea was to try and help young girls and single mothers to “put them back into their tertiary studies.” A difficulty Karrie is facing is a shortage of funds to get the project offRead More
Exploring further opportunities for the coconut industry
RADIO New Zealand International reported late last week that a workshop took place in Nadi, Fiji, when about 70 participants including experts from South East Asia and the Caribbean attended the three-day event organised by the Coconut Industry Development Project. At the time, the team leader, Karen Mapusua, said the workshop would explore opportunities for the coconut industry beyond copra. Ms Mapusua was reported to have said, “Traditionally we’ve been very copra based in what we do with coconuts but there’s many other opportunities out there. There’s also virgin coconut oil.”Read More
Dead body found
THE Honiara public was shocked following the discovery of the body of a man floating in the Mataniko River yesterday afternoon. Hundreds of people lined the banks of the river following the discovery of the body around 3pm, the body was floating close to the bank of the Mataniko Clinic when it was sighted by a bypasser. Police media confirmed to Island Sun that the lifeless body was discovered by a bypasser around 3pm. Following the discovery, police were alerted and took the body to the hospital morgue for postRead More
PIDF Conference unlikely Due to No Funds
PACIFIC Islands Development Forum planned establishment of a National Sustainable Development Board (NSDB) for Solomon Islands and hosting of a Leaders Summit next month in August is highly unlikely due to the current economic pressures experienced by the Solomon Islands government. Prime Minister, Hon. Manasseh Sogavare who is also current chair of PIDF in his meeting with PIDF Secretary General, François Marte earlier this year in Suva had assured the Solomon Islands Government’s commitment towards ensuring the financial support of a PIDF Leaders Summit and Conference in Honiara . However the planRead More