In the name of progress?

Dear Editor, I have the privilege of growing up and seeing the beauty of our town post ethnic tension and prior through photos of old. The community feeling, the mangoes, the rain trees, the Christmas trees, frangipanis, the coolness, the shade, the island beauty reverberated still fully in the surrounding. Slowly changes have occurred, raises…

Good work Commissioner of Lands

THE recent land case victory by the Commissioner of Lands, Alan McNeil, over two Asians who obtained a strip of land near the Honiara International Airport in East Honiara through fraudulent means should send a clear message to others planning to obtain land through any corrupt dealings. The court has ruled that the duo have…

Speech problem

DEAR EDITOR, A son once said, “I’ll go one better than my father-when we’ve lived a million years, we won’t have begun yet because eternity has no beginning and has no end. This boy has operated on his father’s seemingly deformed speech which goes like this, “In the hereafter, we’ll live with perfect bodies and…