Tandai, Honiara Tandai, Honiara Tandai is a suburb of Honiara located West of the main town center located west of the main center on the Tandai Highway. Tandai is in the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi. Tandai is East of White River and West of Rove. The former RAMSI HQ was located at Leilei, Tandai. On Friday 26 June 2009, Solomon Islands Parliament passed a private member’s motion calling on the government to address land management and administration issues in Honiara. The motion moved by Leader of the Official Independent Group, Hon Isaac Inoke Tosika, Member for West Honiara, sought to
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Honiara Archdiocese also hosts the provincial seminary, Holy Name of Mary Seminary Tenaru, which was founded in 1995. Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara, stands on the site where it is thought that the Spanish explorer Mendaña erected a cross when he arrived in 1568. Thus had the explorer given Honiara its first name, Santa Cruz. A large church intended to be used for episcopal ceremonial was erected at Visale in 1923, but it and the remains of the murdered Bishop Épalle which had been interred there were lost to earthquake in 1930. From that time Bishop Aubin based his operations at Tanagai.