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Cooking techniques include baking, boiling and frying. Special dishes are made using all kinds of ingredients. Fish is the staple meat in the Solomon Islands cuisine. Usually any meat is cooked and served with sweet potatoes, rice, taro roots, cassava, taro leaves and many other vegetables. Beside the local traditional cuisine many dishes from ...
The Honiara Central Market (locally referred to as "Central Market") is a fish, [1] flower, [2] clothing, [3] fruit and vegetable market (including fresh coconut water [4]), which also sells shell money, [5] and other local crafts [6] such as palm-frond broomsticks, [7] jewellery, coconut oil and hair tonics [4] in Honiara, the capital of ...
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare meets with the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, July 2016. Solomon Islands is a member of the United Nations, Interpol, Commonwealth of Nations, Pacific Islands Forum, Pacific Community, International Monetary Fund, and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries (Lomé Convention).
In the contemporary Solomon Islands, as elsewhere in Melanesia, kastom is the core of the assertion of traditional values and cultural practices in a modern context. [4] The Kastom Gaden Association, [ 5 ] for example, advocates growing and eating traditional foods rather than imported ones.
Since the independence of Solomon Islands in July 1978, Santa Isabel Island has been administered as part of Isabel Province. On 27 May 2011, seventeen men were arrested for burning down the houses in Ulubea riverside settlement, 33 houses in all, as a result of a property dispute. [5] [6] The number was later expanded to 31 men. [7]
Aquaculture in Solomon Islands became an important activity in 1983 when an Australian farmer established a private prawn farm in western Guadalcanal, approximately 25 km from Honiara. [1] Still, aquaculture has not proven to be a commercially viable option for the Solomon Islands.
In 2017, Solomon Islands was one of the least frequently visited countries in the world, with only 26,000 tourists. Tourism income in 2016 and 2017 was about Int'l$ 1.6 million (international dollars).
The Solomon Archipelago is a terrestrial ecoregion and marine ecoregion in the Pacific Ocean.It includes the tropical ocean waters surrounding most of the Solomon Islands archipelago (excluding the Santa Cruz Islands, which is a part of the Vanuatu marine ecoregion with the forests being part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion), and includes Bougainville Island and Buka Island of Papua New ...