A team from the World Trade Organisation Secretariat visited Honiara last week to hold consultations ahead of Solomon Islands' next trade policy review, scheduled for 2024

Australia will help increase the capacity of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, with funding, training and infrastructure to grow the RSIPF in a sustainable manner, including support for a new sovereign Police Training Centre in Honiara

Solomon Islands National University will offer a new course on national security supported by the Australian Government to develop Solomon Islands' capacity to produce high-quality analytical texts and teaching on national security

The world's largest coral was discovered by a team of scientists in a region of the Solomon Islands known as the "Coral Triangle" for its diversity and abundance of coral; it could be over 300 years old and it is bigger than a blue whale

The first Solomon Islands coin issue bearing the effigy of King Charles III, a $1 coin dated 2025, has been recently unveiled by the Royal Australian Mint ; Governor of the Central Bank of Solomon Islands struck the first coin