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 with the addition of many administrative buildings, the town began to develop and grow in population. Since the late 1990s, Honiara has suffered a turbulent history of ethnic violence and political unrest and is scarred by rioting. A coup attempt in June 2000 resulted in violent rebellions and fighting between the ethnic Malaitans of the Malaita Eagle Force (MEF) and the Guadalcanal natives of the Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM). Although a peace agreement was made in October 2000, violence ensued in the city streets in March 2002 when two diplomats from New Zealand and numerous others were murdered. In July