Our centre is self-sufficient, the staff and students together engaging in the production of soap, beef, perfumed coconut oil, eggs, honey, poultry and vegetable products that we sell at the market in Gizo and to surrounding communities. We have a fishpond, pigs, chickens, and ducks. Sports and recreation include mountain climbing and snorkeling.

Our facilities are mostly permanent buildings: 2 classrooms, 2 workshops, 4 dormitories, kitchen, dining hall, 9 staff houses. Other buildings include an office, church, guest house, brothers' residential block, nurse's residence, rice shed, copra shed, 2 storage sheds. Sanitation is good (piped water). There are 4 generators. There are also a two-way radio and mobile telephone, and some solar lighting. The centre has a tractor, 1 aluminium canoe, 1 fibreglass canoe, 3 OBMs and 1 tractor.
At St. Dominic’s we accept male students of all denominations over 18 years old, and have a maximum capacity for 120 students. We have 13 people on our staff, including 3 Marist Brothers.

St Dominic's RTC
Western Province

St. Dominic’s was established in 1971 on the former site of a saw-milling company. It developed out of a need to give school push-outs an alternative to formal education. Originally accommodating females as well, the girls were relocated in 1974, to St Anne's Vocational Centre at Nila Catholic Mission, Shortland Islands, following a fire.

Our mission is to educate young men to return to their communities with life skills and knowledge they can share. Our training programmes are tailored to needs in the village. Our operations are self-sufficient and there’s a high demand for enrolment, as our centre is known to be one of the most active and successful in the country. We strive to provide tradesman, builders, mechanics, agriculturalists and good community leaders for our country.