BY JOHN HOUANIHAU
THE high rate of unemployment in the Solomon Islands has captured much concern from the country’s top disability office country manager, Casper Fa’asala, he noted that the only way to solve the problem of unemployment is by creating jobs through self-employment.
People with Disability Solomon Islands Country Manager, Casper Fa’asala described the Solomon Islands as a resourceful country with a subsistence economy that has the full potential of creating new jobs and industries through innovative means of utilizing its natural resources.
He gave an example by saying that the Solomon Islands have a lot of limestones and yet the country and the people who are so-called scientists have not made resolutions in bringing about how we can produce our bricks by producing cement for the Solomon Islands.
“Solomon Islands can produce its sugar because we have several local sugar cane species, which we can use to produce our brown sugar.
“Pineapple is plentiful in the Solomon Islands but I am surprised that we have not yet established an industry that produces pineapple juice for the Solomon Islands.
“We are now approaching December’s Christmas season and you’ll see pineapples and mangoes flooding the markets in Honiara, we should produce more pineapple and mango juice.
“But I am surprised that we have not utilized our mass plains on Guadalcanal so that we can establish mass plantations of sugar cane, pineapple, mango trees,’’ Casper told the participants of this year’s 2022 Annual Climate Justice Dialogue and Symposium in Honiara.
