JaydeeNomisasa
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Independent Solo Political Observer | Solo Economic Researcher| Views are my own🇸🇧🌴🏠
Solomon Islands
Joined July 2022
Buildings collapsed in Port Vila, Vanuatu after strong 7.4 earthquake. Rescuers trying to reach trapped people. #earthquake #Vanuatu #terremoto #sismo
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What’s next? PAC will begin its inquiry. Its report should be finalized by 2nd of December where budget will be debated in detail. Happening in the background are rumors of a motion of no confidence. But the plan is to get the budget passed by the 2nd wk of Dec. 5/5
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Education has seen a slow trend down since 2019. In 2019 it used to make up around 37% of the total budget but only now making up 29%. Education remains the largest budget item. There has been slight bump of 5% in recurrent expenditure. 4/5
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Rec. expenditure has seen a growth of 14% driven by a large increase in Debt Servicing (mostly repayment of CBSI loans), growth in PMO expenditure. Health recurrent budget has grown by 31% despite its payroll dropping slightly by 2% but a huge increase in Consultancy fees. 3/5
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Dev. expenditure has grown by 45.68% mostly driven by huge increases in Ministries ‘responsible for economic growth’. Notably, Tourism received the biggest increase of 364% (potential short term gain)Comm/ Aviation, Fisheries and Mines also posting massive increases.
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#SolsBudget2025 GNUT’s first budget issued, posting a deficit of SBD 1274 million, a further deterioration from the -647.6 posted in 2024 (revised). Revenue is back at 2019 levels while expenditure has grown substantially since 2019. 1/5 @terencewoodnz
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Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 is the only Pacific country to come out a slightly critical of Trump 🇺🇸, saying it will “watch very closely” the future Trump administration’s moves on climate. Other Pacific leaders (Fiji, PNG, Tonga) have released very diplomatic-friendly statements.
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I was interviewed by @jordaaaye for her excellent @ABCPacific story on the Solomons government's push to establish a 'Golden Passport' scheme. Similar programs in Vanuatu and Caribbean states have been good revenue raisers but carry security risks.
abc.net.au
Papua New Guinea is standing by its decision to boycott the upcoming Climate Conference in Azerbaijan. PNG's Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko says it's a protest against the annual conference which...
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Commercial logging is massive in Solomon Islands. It's their biggest export and employs thousands of locals. But it's wreaking havoc on the environment and women in rural villages are being exploited. Watch this story from @_Chrisnrita_ & @gabby_marchant
https://t.co/zGGKYNnxBc
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Women ‘sold’ … marriages ‘like instant coffee’. @_Chrisnrita_ travelled to Makira, Solomon Islands, to find out what really happens at logging camps, and the impact this practice - vital to 🇸🇧 economy - is having on the environment. https://t.co/F3UKcxJCvB
abc.net.au
For the developing country, logging is a catch 22: It is the country's biggest export and a source of income for thousands, but it is causing irreversible environmental damage and a raft of social...
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🇸🇧 Prime Minister opened the country’s diplomatic Mission in 🇦🇪 yesterday. Deepening Solomon Islands cooperation with UAE. Thanking Pacific Mission that made it over yesterday Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand your presence is deeply appreciated
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🇸🇧 PM prioritizes expediting progress of legislations over attendance at the #UNGA instead 6 Ministers from a 16 member delegation will represent the country in all engagements.Taxpayers paying 2.1 M SBD for this trip & his two others later in the yr. 📷 Today’s press conference
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Starlink now available in the Solomon Islands
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'Navigating Pacific Futures: Intersecting traditional knowledge with contemporary challenges for sustainable development' - Prof. Aqorau.
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“Well we had a cracker today getting the Pacific Policing Initiative through,” @AlboMP tells @kurtcampbel on sidelines of @piflm53
@RNZPacific
@kelvinfiji
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News! The Pacific Policing Initiative has been endorsed by PIF leaders, despite warnings last night by Vanuatu’s PM and the head of the Melanesian Spearhead Group that it shouldn’t be used to bolster Australia’s strategic interests (ie to box out China)
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Story: Vanuatu and Melanesian Spearhead Group sound note of caution on landmark Pacific policing initiative being championed by Australia https://t.co/qT0XsJLxoc
abc.net.au
Australia has notched a strategic victory in the Pacific after its peak gathering of leaders endorsed a $400 million major new initiative to reshape policing across the region.
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Fascinating figures in @LowyInstitute interactive on intensifying engagement/competition in Pacific - 18 new embassies since 2017 - individual donors jumping from 31 (in 2008) to 82 - frenetic pace of bilateral/multilateral engagements (178 since 2021) https://t.co/2rfC6x1KIJ
interactives.lowyinstitute.org
Pacific Islanders have found their region, previously undervalued by larger powers, now a focal point for strategic competition.
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A stockpile of 200 unexploded U.S. artillery shells from the Second World War uncovered in Solomon Islands capital.
benarnews.org
Honiara is estimated to be littered with thousands of bombs and shells left behind on the battlefield after the six-month Battle of Guadalcanal ended in 1943.
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