The Organising Committee of the 2023 Pacific Games in Solomon Islands has issued a tender for the supply of uniforms and related items

About eight people die daily in the Solomons as a result of the increasing prevalence of Non-Communicable Disease related sickness; the figure was issued by one of the country’s top surgeon Dr Chester Kuma

Landowners from Kakau and Lakuili Tribes in Variana and Hoilava, West Guadalcanal, have issued a public appeal to mining authorities urging them to exclude their customary land from a tenement granted to Ever Prosperous Mining and to revoke its licence

The traditional chief of Bava Island on Vella has voiced strong opposition to mining operations on the island due to mining’s potential destruction of ancestral land, environmental degradation, and threats to the livelihoods of local communities

Increasing malaria cases (over 900 in Gizo hospital), a shortage of drugs and rising numbers in Malaita Province pushed the Vector-Borne Disease Office to tour various communities to conduct malaria awareness campaigns and distribute bed nets