One of Joe Biden’s top advisers has urged Solomon Islands not to allow a Chinese military base in the country, warning the United States would “respond accordingly” to any steps in that direction. The White House is also promising to bring forward the re-establishment of a US embassy in Honiara and to provide the country…
THE visiting UK Emergency Medical Team has successfully conducted an ABCDE Assessment & ACLS – Defibrillator training for frontline health workers at the Gizo hospital in Western Province recently. A statement from the UK Solomon Islands Office said the team is now into seven weeks of deployment in the country and have been training. During…
DEAR EDITOR, Prime Minister Sogavare has said the Solomon Islands does not have any external adversaries (which I interpret as security threats) and this accords with my own assessment. Threats to internal security in the years 1998 Dec) through to 1993, in 2006, and in 2021 have been domestic in nature. I forecast the domestic…
DEAR EDITOR, Looks like the security agreement with China has achieved the opposite, now the world is watching, and now we should be concerned. Little Solomon Islands is now on the radar of many countries because of the government and wanting to remain in power at all cost. So congratulations, now we have a real…
DEAR EDITOR, China is a colonial superpower that is spreading its colonialism around the world. At least 1,000,000 Chinese people, China’s PLA amongst them, now live and work in Africa. Ostensibly they’re there to work on BRI projects. The Solomon Islands and their PM is only the latest in a large number of typically economically…
THE Solomon Star article of 21 April, said to be reporting the remarks of Member of Parliament for West Are’Are, Hon. John Maneniaru, regarding the Bina Harbour Tuna Processing Plant Project, needs to be challenged. The article paints a misleading picture of the prioritisation and resourcing of the project, which the Ministry of Fisheries &…
THE National Training Unit (NTU) Scholarship Budget continues to witness a slight decrease in its annual budget allocation from $293.6 million dollars in 2021 to $293.4 this year. Minister for Education & Human Resources Development, Lanelle Olandrea Tanangada revealed this in Parliament Thursday, when she delivered her speech during the debate of the 2022 Appropriation…
UNIVERSITY of the South Pacific (USP) Solomon Islands Campus has ended its three (3)-day lockdown mode, Friday. As of Wednesday this week, the campus enforced a full lockdown mode as advised by the MOH (emergency unit) and was implemented for 3 days starting on the 20th to 22nd of April. This is due to a confirmed…
PEOPLE in Yandina, Russell Islands, are calling on Solomon Telekom to erect a new tower to restore communication to the islands after the tower in the area was damaged by bad weather, Monday last week. The locals told Solomon Star that the tower fell following ongoing heavy rain and strong wind in the past two…
by Joanne Wallis, Czes Tubilewicz SYDNEY MORNING HERALD FOREIGN affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong has described Australia’s inability to dissuade the Solomon Islands from signing a security agreement with China as the “worst failure of Australian foreign policy in the Pacific” in almost 80 years. This agreement seemingly confirms the Australian government’s anxiety about China’s growing…