Economy

Naha Health Centre Moves to 24-Hour Care Six Weeks After Opening

The Naha Birthing and Urban Health Centre in Honiara has moved to round-the-clock birthing and primary medical care, six weeks after it opened, the Australian High Commission said.

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The Naha Birthing and Urban Health Centre in Honiara. Source: Australian High Commission

USP takes Pacific science and community knowledge into pre-COP31 talks in Nadi

The University of the South Pacific said its representatives contributed to sessions on climate science, finance and youth at the Pacific pre-COP31 programme in Nadi, Fiji, which ended on 9 October.

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Two trainees cutting tiles on the Seghe Market construction site. The Australian High Commission says Australia's infrastructure projects are helping young women and men build skills and a career in construction.

Economy

Three SINU Trainees Finish Internship on Seghe Market Build

Australian High Commissioner Jeff Roach said three women students from Solomon Islands National University have completed a six-week internship with contractor Hatanga on the new Seghe Market, now more than 75 per cent complete.

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Economy

Immigration briefs diplomats on new border system and e-visas

The Solomon Islands Immigration Division says it has briefed the Diplomatic Corps in Honiara on the Government's new Border Management System, e-Visa regime and online payment gateway.

8 Oct 2026

Members of the 27-member Pacific delegation at the SVRI Forum 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Regional

Pacific Delegation Takes Violence Prevention Evidence to SVRI Forum in Bangkok

A 27-member Pacific delegation, including work from Solomon Islands on faith- and sport-based prevention, is presenting 16 sessions on preventing violence against women and girls at the SVRI Forum 2026 in Bangkok from 5 to 9 October.

7 Oct 2026

Elda Wate, MALD DSC and PS Supervising, giving her remarks at the Dodo Creek Rice Farm Trail

Economy

Dodo Creek rice trial reaches first harvest

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development said the trial at Dodo Creek, run with the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences of China and JQY, is testing whether rice can be produced in Solomon Islands.

7 Oct 2026

File photo: The Central Bank of Solomon Islands building in Honiara.

Economy

CBSI says consent not needed for first credit data upload

The Central Bank of Solomon Islands says a credit reporting system is being set up through the Credit & Data Bureau Solomon Islands, with existing customer records to be uploaded without consumer consent.

7 Oct 2026

Politics

Government to rebuild around 1300 homes destroyed by cyclone Maila

The National Disaster Council says SB$75 million has been allocated to rebuild homes lost to tropical cyclone Maila in Western and Choiseul Provinces.

6 Oct 2026 Regional

Food tax cut gave poorest PNG households eight toea in the kina, economists write

Three economists write on the Devpolicy Blog that Papua New Guinea's removal of tax from ten basic foods has cost close to half a billion kina, with stores and wholesalers keeping 36 toea in every kina given up.

6 Oct 2026

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