Solomon Star News

Community work is based on the idea that people who are most affected by particular problems are those who are best able to define their experiences and then define and implement the solution.

Dear folks, there are two very important thoughts that I would like to share with you for this hour: One is about a leader who manages, the other one is about a leader who leads.

Solomon Islands as a nation is not new to political turmoil with fragmented leadership.  Year after year, Corruption, poor leadership and shallow government policies are often on the agenda as well as pressing issues that people of this country wants to address.  Almost every year, as government dismantled, it gives an opportunity for MPs to cross the floor intentionally to form a new government.  MPs are often being challenged by their very own people that they are not doing enough for their constituents.  MPs are also challenged with the issue of corruption.  Government leaders are being challenged of not acting like leaders. 

For the last two years, Australian volunteer Sarah Brewster has worked as a doctor at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara. She shared this personal account of her time at Number 9 on International Volunteers Day earlier this week.

There is a vast expectation from many men and women of Solomon Islands since Lilo came into power.  

I wish to take this opportunity once again to clear the air over the allegation that honorable Steve Abana had put out in media in which he stated to the effect that I’m responsible for causing the split which saw him change loyalty from our camp to Lilo- led camp in the eleventh hour of the election of the Prime Minister.

By lunch time tomorrow most of the nation’s 580, 000 inhabitants will have known they have a new Prime Minister.

The intervention of the Regional Assistance Mission (RAMSI) to the Solomon Islands, at the request of the Solomon Islands Government in 2003, has succeeded in bringing about a large measure of internal security, promoted the need for good governance and aided the economic recovery of the nation after the tragedy of the years of ethnic tension.