Dear Editor, THE system we use in this country for electing MPs is the “first past the post” system. That means the candidate with the most votes wins. At first sight there is nothing wrong with that but when you take a closer look at the figures you will see that in many cases the…
Dear Editor, I deem it important that the people of West Honiara Constituency to read this summary of events that led to the termination of Mr Wilson Mamae, one of the three candidates for the West Honiara Constituency Seat. Mr Mamae understandably is running under the banner of the Solomon Islands Democratic Party led by…
Dear Editor, Pierre Belliard and Christophe Hélis, aged respectively 37 and 48 years old, are fathers of 6 children aged from 4 to 14 years old, and they have been lost at sea since Sunday, October 1st off the coast of Wallis Island, a French territory. They reported their position: 13°11.72S 176°18.30W, by radio transmitter…
Dear Editor, I acknowledge receipt of $70,000 paid to me by your newspaper, as ordered by the High Court in Civil Case number 28 of 2022. This case arose because the Solomon Star published ill-considered articles written by your journalist Alfred Sasako about me, which the Court found to be defamatory and the Court found…
Dear Editor, Last week I went to the office of a lawyer in Bangkok where I signed an Agreement for 11 million US dollars to be sent to me via my personal bank account in Bangkok to be used for charity and humanitarian aid purposes in the Solomon Islands. The Agreement was a legal document…
Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your paper, I wish to say something in this subject. My mother used said to me, son you are a registered voter, why are you not voting anymore? I said Mama, I’ve voted in every Solomon Islands election since I was turn 18 and I’ve never registered…
Dear Editor, We wish to share a scary and terrifying incident we encountered during our recent travel from Honiara to Auki, and then on to our village at the Fouia head-road in northeast Malaita. When we arrived in Auki, we realised that all three trucks destined for Fouia head-road had departed and so we had to look around for any truck travelling north road. …
Dear Editor, I wish to raise the ill-considered military intervention by the RSIPF after mid 1999 using guns during the so called ‘Ethnic Tension” in the Solomon Islands. At a time when the Commonwealth Envoy, Major General Sitiveni Rabuka, was attempting to broker a peace settlement to the uprising in the Solomon Islands that first…
Dear Editor, Harvesting of marine resources such as turtles, beche-de-mer, shark fins and other fish species was traditionally a normal activity for most communities in parts of the country. There was no such law as banning of these resources, which were harvested for food mainly as only small quantity would be sold or traded for…
Dear Editor, I extend my congratulations and good wishes to all in the Solomon Islands as the country celebrates 45years of independence. I was proud to have served the Solomon Islands as the fomer Commissioner of Polce and in the intervening years following my departure from the country done my utmost to aid with charity…