Last year alone more than 5,400 ordnance items were cleared in the Solomon Islands (Image supplied)Eighty years after WWII, Solomon Islanders face the ongoing threat of death and injury from hidden, unexploded bombs, writes Catherine Wilson. THIS YEAR is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, but in some countries, the trail of death and destruction continues. But Pitanoe and her friends were in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. Today tourists converge on the Solomon Islands to explore the sites of epic battles and relics, such as abandoned fighter planes and shipwrecks. Especially the Solomon Islands where poverty affects about a quarter of the population and rural communities contend with lack of government services and economic development.