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 | Solomon Islands: CIVIL UNREST: The ruins of Chinatown | |
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 The ruins of Chinatown after riots in May 2006.Much of the Chinatown area in Honiara, where Chinese traders operated small general stores, was destroyed in rioting in April 2006. A number of Chinese families have lived and operated businesses in the Solomon Islands for several generations. Others have come more recently, leaving China in search of better opportunities. The riots were partly due to resentment of the involvement of some members of the Chinese community in local politics, but also due to very high levels of unemployment among young men in the town. | ||
| Solomon Islands, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: at the market gardening | |
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 ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: At the market.This woman lives in a village in Western Province. She has brought in a load of coconuts to sell at the weekly market. While she waits for customers, she enjoys a hand-rolled cigarette. | ||
| Solomon Islands, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES, Banana Stall | |
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 Banana StallThis lady sells bananas on the roadside, near Benege Beach (a popular swimming beach for locals and tourists: see other photos here). This variety cost around SB$7 per kilo.She sells the bananas every Saturday and Sunday, when many people go to the beach, and sometimes on other days too. | ||
| Solomon Islands: ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: Clam seller. | |
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 This man is bringing in a load of fresh clams for sale at the open-air market. Note the woven palm-leaf basket (very environmentally friendly: as well as providing employment for a local woman). Also note the complete lack of refrigeration! | ||
| Solomon Islands, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: Cocoa drying furnace | |
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 This furnace is used to dry cocoa pods. Once dry, the cocoa pods are taken by truck to be sold in Honiara market, for SB$6 to $7 per kilo. | ||
| Solomon Islands, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: Cocoa Plantation nut stall | |
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 In the same village as the photo of the cocoa drying furnace, a young man is walking with his two small sons. This man works in the cocoa plantation and on this day was bringing timber he had cut to stoke the fire used to dry the cocoa pods. | ||
| Solomon Islands, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES, weekend food stalls | |
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 Week-end food stalls.On weekends and public holidays, vendors sell barbequed fish, pork and chicken served in a palm leaf with a choice of steamed rice or boiled cassava root. Many people make the journey from Honiara by car, bus or taxi to swim and eat at the stalls. | ||
| Solomon Islands, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: Wood Carving. Western Province. | |
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 ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: Carving. Western Province.This young man, aged 36, learned to carve from his father and says that this is the only way he knows to generate cash income. He would like to live in Australia and thinks of making a living by carving or fruit-picking. He speaks good English. His wife weaves reed baskets which he also sells to tourists visiting Western Province. They have three children aged 2, 4 and 6. The eldest is just starting school. | ||
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| SOLOMON ISLANDS: Links with Australia | |
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 Today, few people remember the names of all the Kanakas who did chose not to return home and went to live in places like Pialba, near Hervey Bay in Queensland, in the 1900s and 1910s, once finished their indentured labour on the sugar plantations. Pialba had, at that time, abundant fish, crabs and oysters- the staple diet in the Kanaka’s homes. By 1970, the original Kanakas….had passed away and Hervey Bay OPAL decided to erect a memorial to these men. At the base of the memorial is inscribed Daralata, a word from their own language meaning “we have come a long way.” | ||
| Solomon Islands: Links with Australia (2) | |
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 Kanaka HeritageAt the base of the Kanaka memorial is inscribed Daralata, a word from their own language meaning “we have come a long way.” This information is adapted from "A History of Hervey Bay" by Joan Christiansen, printed by R and J. McTaggart and Co, Hervey Bay. | ||