The tale of a trip to the Solomon Islands have gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Aftershocks are continuing to rock the Solomon Islands, hampering relief efforts after a quake and tsunami.
It is the largest island in the Santa Cruz island chain, part of the Solomon Islands nation.
Instability has also afflicted Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, where riots followed an election last year.
The Solomon Islands faces the prospect of becoming the Pacific's first failed state.
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The Solomon Islands' Western Province, unsurprisingly, wants more power for its local assembly.
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Julian Maka'a, a well known journalist from the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Commission (SIBC) spearheaded the organisation of the training for MASI.
The Solomon Islands once exported gold, palm oil, timber and canned tuna.
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In 1942, the battle of the Coral Sea started in World War II, when naval and air battles began off the Solomon Islands.
Aftershocks continued to rock the Solomon Islands, a day after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that left at least nine people dead.
The plane, which was also carrying vital aid, later landed successfully said Andrew Catford, the Solomon Islands director for the relief agency World Vision.
Homes were damaged and at least five people have been reported dead after a tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake hit the Solomon Islands.
In the lobby of AIC's headquarters in Burlington, west of Toronto, a pair of parrots from the Solomon Islands greet visitors with squawks of "Buy!"
On the margins of the Crans Montana Forum, the Director-General held bilateral meetings with the Minister for Culture and Tourism of the Solomon Islands, Hon.
Two years ago, the Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) identified an urgent need to take the initiative to improve media and journalism in the Solomon Islands.
Lecturers from the School of Education in the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education were trained during this project to provide in-service teacher training for primary school teachers.
It also manages companies for example, Zambia's Chilanga Cement, in which it also has a majority stake, and palm-oil ventures in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Thailand.
They were transported to their plane in a carriage carried by about 20 islanders, concluding the short tour that has also taken in Singapore, Malaysia and the Solomon Islands.
SYDNEY A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific triggered a tsunami that destroyed villages and killed at least five people in the Solomon Islands Wednesday, according to government and hospital officials.
It has been trying to bring peace to the Solomon Islands, another former British territory, where ethnic groups from the islands of Malaita and Guadalcanal are in dispute, mainly over land.
Samoa and the Solomon Islands have slightly different priorities.
In 1978, the Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain.
The worst hit regions over the past two decades, according to the ESA data, have been the Pacific countries of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and vulnerable Pacific islands like the Solomon Islands.
He arrived in America by a circuitous route that took in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Tring, a small town in southern England where Lord Rothschild, a rich naturalist, had established a private museum.
The magnitude-8 quake, with a depth of 28.7 kilometers, was centered about 355 kilometers east of the Santa Cruz Islands, part of the Solomon Islands nation, according to a bulletin issued by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Currently the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Department in the Solomon Islands is planning to continue with in-service professional development for teachers in two more provinces with the aim of increasing the number of teachers with certification.
The work in the Solomon Islands will be a continuation of an earlier project supported by JFIT (Japanese Funds in Trust) on strengthening the capacity of education ministries, teacher training institutions, teachers and principals completed in the last biennium.
Each of these five countries, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu have identified through their national education plans and strategies that improving the quality of their teaching workforce is of utmost importance in order to contribute towards increasing student achievement.
More recently, Australia has found itself drawn into much smaller-scale operations with a big civilian component in the Solomon Islands, in Papua New Guinea and even in Nauru: all countries that became independent only in the late 1960s or 1970s, and have signally failed to prosper.
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