Honiara Central Market wreck "MV Bikoi II" in February 2016. The Honiara City Council also warns vendors not to use the natural (sea) water source at the market: The Honiara Central Market Vendors’ Association ("HCMVA") was opened and registered in 2014, followed by the registration of a market vendors' association in Auki in 2015. Both were registered under the Solomon Islands Charitable Trust Act. UN Women cooperates with market vendors and associations of both the "Central Market", as well as with those of Auki Market. "HCMVA" formed as a result of initial workshops series by UN Women's Markets for Change (M4C) project, which
Honiara Christian and is served by the headquarters of the Church of the Province of Melanesia (Anglican), the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Honiara, the South Seas Evangelical Church, the United Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and other Christian churches. There are many congregations of American and Australian style charismatic and evangelical movements. There are also members of the Bahá'í Faith, Buddhists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and Muslims such as the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The Anglican Church of Melanesia, a province of the Anglican Communion, was established in 1849 by George Augustus Selwyn of New Zealand. Initially, it was the Church of the