School to hold its own celebration

hold its own celebration

THE Solomon Islands College of Higher Education is celebrating its 10th anniversary on August 15 and 16. In honour of this event, there will be two open days at the three Honiara campuses, an international symposium on education, a football competition, a cultural evening, and a number of feasts with a fireworks display.

The islands The Solomon Islands consists of a double chain of six large islands and many smaller ones including those of the Lord Howe, Santa Cruz, Duff and Reef groups. The major island is Guadalcanal.

The main islands are mountainous, and heavily wooded. Local time is 11 hours

ahead of

Gmt.

Currency Solomon Islands has it own currency, introduced in 1977 before in

dependence

and circulating

alongside Aus-

tralian currency until 1979 when the latter was withdrawn. The dollar rate is floated and related to a trade-weighted basket of other currencies. The flag is green and blue halved diagonally by a thin, gold stripe and has five white stars clustered at the hoist representing the four districts and the outliers. The coat of arms includes a crocodile, shark, two frigate birds, and eagle, spears with shield and a turtle.

Citizenship After Independence in 1978, the follow

ing categories applied for a person

automatically to become a citizen, or who could apply for citizenship.

Automatic citizenship applied to any one whose parents are or were British protected persons and of a group, tribe or line indigenous to the Solomon Islands; or if they were born in the Solomon Islands and had two grand parents who were members of a group, tribe or line indigenous to Papua New Guinea or Vanuatu. □

Peace and tranquility: the islands have much to offer the tourist who wants to get away from it all