Dear Editor – It is annoying for someone like Makili to condemn land reform experts trying their best to lend us their highly knowledgeable insights during the recent two days land reform summit. In his actual words, Makili asserted, “those experts don’t know anything about customary land.”. The question is, who is this Makili, anyway?…
Dear Editor – I wish to question why a visit the prime minister has promised to make to Burns Creek community five months ago has not taken place. At the beginning of the year the prime minister sent senior officers from his office to inform Burns Creek leaders of the prime minister’s intended visit. The…
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Youths in Taro, Choiseul province celebrated their first Youth market on Tuesday. The Market took place during the 3 day belated international Youth Day celebration and the opening of the Province’s new Youth Sports Centre in Taro. There were youth stalls selling youth’s creative products and awareness stalls from the Government and NGOs. Youth in…
Skyline director nowhere to be seen A CHINESE man who left an unpaid bill of more than $87,000 with Heritage Park Hotel in Honiara is believed to have slipped out of the country. Jason Liu Tao, of Skyline Investment Group, checked into the hotel on July 4 and was supposed to check out on 31…
Major crackdown on illegal buildings underway THE Honiara City Council (HCC) says it is taking tougher measures to crackdown on illegal buildings within the city boundary. Honiara City Lord Mayor, Alfrence Fatai said the council had resorted to take tougher action to quell and put a stop to illegal settlements springing up all over the…
Pohnpei, FSM – This month the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is responding to requests from the Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) to assist these countries to formalise their maritime boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). Under international law, a country has the right and…
St. Nicolas School and Selwyn Collage come out victorious in the 2015 G’Day Solomon Islands Great Debate at the Mendana Hotel on Wednesday. A total of four schools took part in the 2015 G’Day Great Debate. They were St. Nicolas, Selwyn Collage, St. Joseph’s Tenaru and Betikama Adventist College. The first debate topic which was…
THE Parliamentary Opposition has called for the investigation, arrest and deportation of Skyline Investment Group director Jason Liu Tao. This followed a Solomon Star front page report that Mr Tao has owed Heritage Park Hotel more than $87,000 hotel bills, while one of his associates Pan Yan Bing who has also already left the country,…
PRIME Minister Manasseh Sogavare is now in Fiji attending the 3rd Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) Leader’s Summit in Suva. The PIDF3 is expected to be a historic event as this year’s event will see the promulgation of the PIDF Charter by the People of the Pacific that will formally establish the PIDF as an…