The Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands have renewed a call for parliament to “cease the inefficient system of allocating development funds to MPs to distribute”. “This system is a direct cause of election-related violence,” the bishops said. “It is open to much abuse and the potential for corruption, especially by diverting these funds Read more
Last Thursday the Vatican announced that the Pope has appointed Bishop John Doaninoel sm, as the auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Honiara, Solomon Islands. Bishop John has been auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea since 2008. In his role as auxiliary Bishop he will assist Archbishop Adrian Smith who has been Read more
Any offer to host an asylum-seeker processing centre in the Solomons must be refused by Canberra, which should stop trying to off-load its problems onto fragile Pacific states recently retired Solomon Islands MP and former deputy PM Fred Fono. He said his government’s offer was ill-conceived, would likely trigger land disputes and lacked any community Read more
A group of former members of the militants Malaita Eagle Force have been given the opportunity to appear before Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It was the first time Malaitans have been able to appear before the Commission set up to investigate the causes of the ethnic violence that gripped Solomon Islands between 1997 and Read more