The main cause of recent price increases is rises in energy prices, such as gasoline and kerosene prices and electricity charges, and in food prices. In this regard, for June, the year-on-year rate of change in the CPI excluding fresh food and energy was 1.0 percent and that excluding energy and food was 0.2 percent.
We hope that Solomon Islands money day will continue to be organized each year to promote the financial education to the general public each year. This year’s Solomon Islands Money Day theme “Take Part. Save Smart!” This theme is adopted from this year’s Global Money Week; which we were not able to hold during the first quarter of this year.