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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 ...
The Solomon Islands United Party (UP) is a political party in 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.
National symbols by country. Solomon Islands culture. Symbols of Oceania. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
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 ...
The Solomon Islands, [7] also known simply as the Solomons, [8] is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. It is directly adjacent to Papua New Guinea to the west, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji, Wallis and ...
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.
Kolombangara (sometimes spelled Kulambangara) is an island in the New Georgia Islands group of the nation state of Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The name is from a local language, a rough translation of its meaning is "Water Lord" with approximately 80 rivers and streams running down its flanks.
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.