29 JANUARY 2015www.solomonstarnews.com
Rennell people benefit from mining spin-offs
Edited by : AL CIRCLE
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Village farmers, fishermen and village shop owners of West Rennell and surrounding communities are experiencing the influx of cash-flow and increase of revenue in their shops and communities as a direct result of the current bauxite mining operation in the area.
A landowner Malcolm Sau who has just returned from his village in West Rennell, said he have witness and seen the benefits and spin off the people in his communities are getting as more local and foreign workers are being employed and engaged in the mining operations in West Rennell.
“Unlike in the past where there is hardly any development in our Island, most shop owners, market vendors, fishermen have not had the opportunities to sell their goods or products, no one has ever come to our shops to buy anything, as a result we sometimes reduce the prices to half or we just consume everything ourselves,” Mr Sau said that was according to one shop owner.
He said women farmers who wanted to sell their products and fishermen who wanted to sell their fish may not have the opportunity to do so in the past, as there was no money circulating in their villages or communities, but that has changed.
A landowner Malcolm Sau who has just returned from his village in West Rennell, said he have witness and seen the benefits and spin off the people in his communities are getting as more local and foreign workers are being employed and engaged in the mining operations in West Rennell.
“Unlike in the past where there is hardly any development in our Island, most shop owners, market vendors, fishermen have not had the opportunities to sell their goods or products, no one has ever come to our shops to buy anything, as a result we sometimes reduce the prices to half or we just consume everything ourselves,” Mr Sau said that was according to one shop owner.
He said women farmers who wanted to sell their products and fishermen who wanted to sell their fish may not have the opportunity to do so in the past, as there was no money circulating in their villages or communities, but that has changed.
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