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
Honiara the 1960s and 1970s some two-thirds of the investment into economic development in the country went into developing the infrastructure of Honiara, despite the fact that at the time only some five percent of Solomon Islanders lived there. Like Tulagi, the town did not grow substantially as a result of industrialisation. As Trevor Sofield says, "The shops and businesses in these centers served the needs of the government officials and expatriate businessmen, planters, and traders. Honiara, like many other ex-colonial cities, still reflects the political, economic and cultural structure of its former metropolitan mentor much more than it does the