BY GEORGINA KEKEA More than AUD$21,000 was raised for the victims of the recent world war two bomb explosion in Honiara by retired Australians.   At the annual Australian Grey Nomads camp held from 7 - 15 May in Australia, the participants rallied together to raise funds after hearing news of the tragedy.   Former pastors and missionaries who had worked in Solomon Islands were part of the camp for retirees who rallied together to raise funds for the victims and their families.   As reported by the Adventist Record Pastor Ray Eaton who was in attendance said the whole camp got behind the project.   “It was very enthusiastically supported”, Eaton said. Retired adults, known as Grey Nomads participating in an event  at the camp (Photo by Adventist Record) The Grey Nomads camp brought together more than 470 retirees from all over the country except Western Australia to Stuarts Point Convention Centre (NSW) where their program was held.   Pastor Eaton said the ...

BY GEORGINA KEKEA VANUATU is the biggest importer of canned tuna from Solomon Islands. National Fisheries Development (NFD) Limited Managing Director, Frank Wickham shared this information in a recent radio talkback show to mark World Tuna Day. Wickham says the biggest export destination for SolTuna’s canned tuna is Vanuatu. “Followed by Papua New Guinea, Fiji and the market is now open in New Zealand. There is a big move now to promote and market in New Zealand and Australia. We have containers going to Kiribati, Tuvalu with a few to Tonga and Marshall Islands. The biggest of them all is Vanuatu”, Wickham said. He says domestically the consumption of tuna is growing annually making Solomon  Islands one of the biggest canned tuna consumption per capita in the world. “Two years ago it was like more than 800,000 cartons a year. which means for every woman, man and child in the country, they consume one carton a year. So if you look at 48 tin cans in one carton, it is almost one ...