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The Solomon Islands United Party (SIUP) is a political party in the Solomon Islands. History. The party was established in March 1980 by Prime Minister Peter Kenilorea, and was based on the government he had led since 1978. Kenilorea had initially been an independent, but sought to form a party in the build-up to the 1980 general elections.
Map of Solomon Islands, circa 1989. Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in the Melanesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean.This page is about the history of the nation state rather than the broader geographical area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which covers both Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island, a province of Papua New Guinea.
The flag of Solomon Islands consists of a thin yellow diagonal stripe from the lower hoist-side corner, with a blue upper triangle and green lower triangle, and the canton charged with five white stars. Adopted in 1977 to replace the British Blue Ensign defaced with the arms of the protectorate, it has been the flag of Solomon Islands since 18 ...
Solomon Islander. Political party. People's Progressive Party. Solomon Sunaone Mamaloni (23 January 1943 – 11 January 2000) was a Solomon Islands politician. He was the first chief minister of the islands, and later served as the prime minister for three spells in the 1980s and 1990s. [1]
t. e. Paulo Freire, the author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Pedagogy of the Oppressed ( Portuguese: Pedagogia do Oprimido) is a book by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, written in Portuguese between 1967 and 1968, but published first in Spanish in 1968. An English translation was published in 1970, with the Portuguese original being published ...
Founded at. Honiara, Solomon Islands. Type. Non-governmental organisation. Purpose. "Women as Equal Partners in the Development of Solomon Islands". Solomon Islands National Council of Women is a non-governmental women's organisation based in Honiara, in the Solomon Islands. It was founded in 1983 [1] It has received funding from the Global ...
On 5 June 2000, a coup d'état occurred in Solomon Islands, in the capital of Honiara, in which the prime minister, Bartholomew Ulufa’alu, was taken hostage by militants of the Malaita Eagle Force. The event came as a result of longstanding ethnic tensions between the province that saw a rise in armed political groups from the late 1990s.
Following the elections, it joined the Solomon Islands United Party -led coalition government with Kenilorea as Prime Minister and IG leader Francis Billy Hilly becoming Deputy Prime Minister; the Independent Group was also given six seats in the 12-member cabinet. [1] [3] In 1981 the IG pulled out of the coalition, causing the government to fall.