The Right Honourable Silas Tausinga | |
|---|---|
| Minister for Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening | |
| Assumed office 4 March 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Darcy Lilo |
| Preceded by | David Tome |
| Member of Parliament for West New Georgia | |
| Assumed office 4 August 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Boyers |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 12, 1983 |
| Political party | Party for Rural Advancement |
Silas Vaqara Tausinga, [1] born 12 August 1983, [2] is a Solomon Islands politician. He is the son of Job Tausinga, who was first elected to the National Parliament in 1984. [3]
Solomon Islands is a sovereign state consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of 28,400 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). The country's capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the North Solomon Islands, but excludes outlying islands, such as Rennell and Bellona, and the Santa Cruz Islands.
Job Dudley Tasinga, CSI is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands. He lives on New Georgia Island, in the Western Province, and was first elected in 1984.
The National Parliament of Solomon Islands has 50 members, elected for a four-year term in 50 single-seat constituencies.
After a secondary education, he went into work, as a bank officer at the Bank South Pacific. [2]
Secondary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education is considered the second and final phase of basic education, and level 3 (upper) secondary education is the stage before tertiary education. Every country aims to provide basic education, but the systems and terminology remain unique to them. Secondary education typically takes place after six years of primary education and is followed by higher education, vocational education or employment. Like primary education, in most countries secondary education is compulsory, at least until the age of 16. Children typically enter the lower secondary phase around age 11. Compulsory education sometimes extends to age 19.
Bank South Pacific is the largest bank in Papua New Guinea, with 35 branches throughout the country and in 6 countries. BSP currently services over 650,000 business banking customers throughout the Pacific. As at 31 December 2014, BSP had total assets valued at K15.8 billion. Bank South Pacific is listed on the Port Moresby Stock Exchange.
He was elected to Parliament for the first time in the August 2010 general election, as MP for the West New Georgia constituency. He sat alongside his father, both of them as representatives of the Party for Rural Advancement. Despite Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo being the only other member of the party in Parliament, the Tausingas initially sat on the Opposition benches. In March 2012, Silas Tausinga (but not his father) defected to the government side, and was appointed Minister for Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening, as part of a Cabinet reshuffle. [3] At the age of just 28, he was the youngest person in the country to become a government minister. [4]
The Solomon Islands Party for Rural Advancement (SIPRA) is a political party in the Solomon Islands. At the legislative elections on 5 April 2006, the party won 6.3% of the vote and 4 out of 50 seats.
Gordon Darcy Lilo is a Solomon Islander politician who served as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands from 16 November 2011 to 9 December 2014. He was a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands, representing the Gizo/Kolombangara constituency spanning Gizo and the island of Kolombangara in Western Province. Lilo previously served as the Solomon Islands Minister of Finance and Treasury.
