Our topic of discussion for the next few weeks is “Leadership”. This year we will go to the poll to elect our national leaders. The honour is on each and every one of us who are eligible to choose our national leaders. Our vote will determine the kind of leaders we will have for…
I read a story recently which resonated with me, and I thought it was a great illustration of my own experiences with God. It helped me to understand, and hopefully to explain, a little more about righteousness by faith. It was a story of a slave in ancient times who was on the auction block…
THE Seventh Day Adventist Church in Honiara has over the weekend commemorated the life of the late Adventist Medical Missionary Martyr Dr Brian Dunn. The late Dr Dunn at British missionary was one of the first missionaries’ to set foot and work at Atoifi Hospital before he was tragically killed in 1965. The commemoration program…
THE family of the Seventh Day Adventist medical missionary who was killed on Atoifi some forty nine (49) years ago have thanked the Solomon Islands SDA Mission for its support toward them, especially in finally resting their son and brother the late Dr Brian Dunn at his final resting place at Betikama over the weekend.…
THE Anglican priest who allegedly led a group of landowners to destroy logging machines on Vanikoro Island, Temotu has maintained his innocence. A relative of the priest, Benjamin Tua said the priest is still in Lata and police have not arrested him yet. Six people have already been arrested in relation to the incident that…
Standing on a remote coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean watching children play, it was deeply saddening to realise they will soon have to leave a place that has been home to their people for thousands of years. Ontong Java, the most northerly part of Solomon Islands, is on the frontline of climate change. The…
STACY Kwanafia, 19, daughter of John Sam and Amalyn Kwanafia, Green Valley Honiara, has recently been called to serve a full time mission in the New Zealand Auckland Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A statement from the church said Stacy will enter the Missionary Training Center in New Zealand on…
ABOUT 250 tickets for Shaggy concert next weekend have already been sold out this week. This was according to Heritage Park Hotel, which is organising the shaggy show. “In two days since tickets were available from yesterday (Wednesday) we have sold 250 tickets both normal entry and VIP,” the hotel said. “Shaggy is scheduled to…
REQUIRING only a small plot of land and little capital investment, the cut flower business could be a vibrant trade for women in the Gold Ridge community. Jan Hintze, a Darwin-based cut flower expert, has led a workshop targeting mothers and daughters from all over the Gold Ridge catchment. The mixed bunch heard about the…
AN Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) would only function if it’s not politicised. That’s the view of retired Anglican bishop Canadian Bishop Terry Brown. There have been recent discussions for the government to establish an Independent Commission Against Corruption to fight graft. Bishop Terry, who served here for many years as Bishop of Malaita, and…