We studied the rate, method and other quantitave aspects of suicide and parasuicide in the Honiara area of the Solomon Islands, for the four and half year period. A suicide rate of 39/100,000 and a parasuicide rate of 36/100,000 were calculated. There were more suicides and parasuicides among the females than the males. Chloroquine poisoning was the most common method of suicide, and hanging wa…