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SOLOMONS’ MONO ISLANDERS WARY OF ASYLUM PLANS Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 00:00 SOLOMONS’ MONO ISLANDERS WARY OF ASYLUM PLANS Chiefs warn government not to plan without informing villagers By Ednal Palmer HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, June 8, 2011) - The Famoa council of chiefs warn the Solomon Islands government not to rush into [plans for a detention center for political asylum-seekers] in Mono without consulting and providing people with vital information. [PIR editor’s note: Mono Island is near Stirling Island in the Treasury Islands group in the Solomon Islands, just south of Bougainville. The two islands were held by the Japanese during WWII. ] ....
RNZ Pacific staff share their Christmas memories and traditions. The best memories of Christmas food for me was growing up in Munda in the Western Solomons and it was all about the process. Joyce Kevisi s 100th birthday Photo: supplied I remember as a very little person helping, (more like getting in the way of), my great, great grandmother, Joyce Kevisi who turned 100 this month, prepare the motu or earth oven, with glowing hot stones by woodfire and lamplight. Even the smells and sounds of all the prep work leading up to that point with my mum, aunties and older cousins crushing ngali nuts for the mamahi (rich layered slippery cabbage and nut cake) and grating cassava for the oremarihi (cassava pudding) with a touch of luzu vaka (kumara) for sweetness, her signature touch. ....