April 17th 2024
The Government had declared Wednesday April 17th 2024 as a Public Holiday for the conduct of National, Provincial and Honiara City Council elections.
The caretaker Minister of Home Affairs, Christopher Laore made the declaration published in an Extra Ordinary Gazette on Monday April 8th.
“Under section 2 of the Public Holidays Act (Cap. 151), the public is informed that the polling day for the general election, the Provincial Assemblies election and the Honiara City Council election on April 17th 2024 is a public holiday,” the Gazette stated.
November 18th 2020
The Government of the Solomon Islands through the Ministry of Home Affairs, declared a public holiday on Wednesday November 18th 2020 to observe the by-elections in Central Honiara and North East Guadalcanal constituencies.