{"id":20094,"date":"2014-04-08T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/solomon-islands-begins-the-big-clean-up\/"},"modified":"2014-04-08T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:14:00","slug":"solomon-islands-begins-the-big-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/04\/solomon-islands-begins-the-big-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands begins the big clean-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2014\/4\/7\/1396825595758\/bf0f018a-5b8c-476c-a1a1-830987115621-460x276.jpeg\" alt=\"Inline images 1\" \/><br \/><i>Image: The Guardian\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 Tourism plant largely unscathed<br \/>&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 International and domestic flights back on schedule<br \/>&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 Power and communications resumed<br \/>&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 Local land transport system slowly returning to normal<\/p>\n<p>The Solomon Islands Government Meteorological Service having sounded the all-clear and flood waters around Honiara having dissipated, the destination has gone into overdrive with full clean-up operations taking place across the length and breadth of the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau (SIVB) CEO, Josefa &#8216;Jo&#8217; Tuamoto said despite the damage caused to large parts of Honiara when the Mataniko River burst its banks, the capital city&#8217;s main hotels had in the main &#8220;escaped relatively unscathed&#8221; and were continuing to provide full services to guests.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tuamoto said all international and domestic flights were back to normal and the roads in and around Honiara open to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although traffic is slow in and out of town due to the Mataniko Bridge having only one lane, there is a major infrastructure assessment already taking place to look at how the situation can continue to be improved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tuamoto will depart Honiara later this week for a tour of the areas beyond the capital and also visit the outer islands to glean a first-hand impression of how the regional tourism infrastructure has fared following the devastating floods and earthquake which struck last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was without doubt one of the worst natural disasters \u2013 if not the \u00a0worst ever \u2013 to have hit this country but I amazed with the tenacity and the passion that the people have to support each other in this time of duress,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely not business as usual, we have a lot to do and it will take time but a huge amount of progress has already been made and its full speed ahead for the clean up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Guardian\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 Tourism plant largely unscathed&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 International and domestic flights back on schedule&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 Power and communications resumed&#8211; \u00a0 \u00a0 Local land transport system slowly returning to normal The Solomon Islands Government Meteorological Service having sounded the all-clear and flood waters around Honiara having dissipated, the destination has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}