DEAR EDITOR – Looks like we are wasting our time to complain, it looks like the government looks will extend the life of parliament. This is the same government that turned all the stones and make decisions, so what do we expect? So when election comes, enough of accepting bribes, because these are the people…
DEAR EDITOR – Transparency Solomon Islands congratulates the newly appointed Chairman of the Political Parties Commission Mr. Francis Billy Hilly, newly appointed Commissioner Lady Joy Kere and continuing Commissioners Mrs. Taeasi Sanga and Dr. Jack Maebuta. It is encouraging to see this Commission continuing to be gender-balance. Transparency Solomon Islands urges the Executive Government to…
Dear Editor – Breast cancer in women is known to be a serious medical concern in the Solomon Islands and the reason I have written so often about the report that the Cancer Unit at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) is without a workable mammogram machine to carry out routine screening of women for early…
Dear Editor – I write in response to the article on March 8, 2022 in the Solomon Star titled “DR WHO OPPOSES VACCINATION”. The Solomon Star article claimed as proof the Lund University publication by Markus Alden et al titled “Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver…
Dear Editor – Thank you for being a member of Forum Gizo. Having a conversation about covid in our region can be a good thing if done constructively and with acceptance of others view point. Let me share my personal observation and opinion of the current measures we are taking; PM in his recent statement…
Dear Editor – I continue to monitor news about cancer treatment knowing as I do about the prevalence of cancer in the Solomon Islands, particular breast cancer and cervical cancer in women and teenage girls. I would like to share with readers in the Solomon Islands and my friends in the medical profession at the…
Dear Editor – Mammograms are help to help save lives. But what is the situation at the NRH’S cancer unit today? For women at average risk, screening mammograms should be performed annually beginning at age 40 to check the breasts for any early signs of breast cancer. If you have a higher risk of breast…
Dear Editor – My website www.solomonislandsinfocus.com which I had designed and launched in 2014 to help and promote the Solomon Islands internationally features a pictorial display of exquisite wood carvings by talented work carvers in the Solomons. This week I received an inquiry from a potential buyer of carvings of yellow fish and sharks. If any…
Dear Editor – Now is the time for all committed individual humans to come to the aid of their country, and that is, planet earth, because, earth, is essentially, one country but during eons of our evolution we became sidetracked, lost, like sheep in our mental wilderness, of a flat-earth with, diverse looking, multiple societies, neither…
Dear Editor – The Chief Justice, His Honour Sir Albert Palmer has called for a Commission of Inquiry to determine the cause of the 2021 November rioting and looting in Honiara. He made the call during the opening of the legal year this week, which was conducted virtually. Chief Justice Palmer said the Chinatown riots…