Dear Editor, The Government has designated the 2023 South Pacific Games “The Green Games”. We need hundreds more trees to achieve this, yet not only are there no trees being planted, but also palms on the median strip have been cut down and large trees continue to be cut down. If the government has a…
Dear Editor, Readers to my frequent posts and letters to the Solomon Islands media will have noticed, of late, I have given much more attention to giving news of health-related issues that have been circulated firstly in international publications, by the WHO, and in university papers and journals, touching upon some of the illnesses and…
DEAR EDITOR, There are culverts coiling alongside the other side of the road going off to Auki. We were on this side of the road watching people rushing off to board the waiting trucks on the other side. Then it’s our turn to go ourselves. This is the current scene of crossing the make-shift bridge.…
DEAR EDITOR, Thankyou for allowing space on your paper to comment on the behavior and attitude of a senior police inspector in Noro. On the 18th of March 2023, I was standing inside a Chinese shop in Noro and witnessed a senior police inspector who was later known to me as Robert Hickie. He walked…
DEAR EDITOR, Concerning the above heading I wish to reveal to the public about my concern on the above-mentioned issue. Years after years the responsible authority had overlooked this matter, however to me it is one of the significant issues the responsible authority should take concern and deal with as soon as possible. Perhaps before…
Dear Editor, In your edition of 4th March 2023 it was reported that the Minister of Provincial Government has issued a letter to the former Premier of Malaita Province, Mr Suidani, to show cause why he should not be disqualified as a provincial member on the grounds that he has by his own act shown…
Dear Editor, The Solomon Islands, like in many other countries, is just emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, tourism is starting to show some early results, business slowly picking up, but the national economy remains depressed and jobs are few and far between. I realise for many life remains hard and especially for those suffering from…
Goodbye 2022 your gone foreverIn the recorded history forevermoreIn times immemorial For the things undone was undone You come with a new face and a new pageAs clean as the crystal river and clear as a new ageFor in moving forward life is growing brighter for the youngBut growing dimmer and dim for the age A…
Dear Editor, It has been brought to my notice that the Atoifi Hospital in the Uru District of East Kwaio in Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands – a 90 bed hospital facility built in the early 60’s and currently serving a local population exceeding 80,000 people of all ages and degrees of infirmity and…
DEAR EDITOR, Many in the Solomon Islands are at their own villages and communities during Christmas and spend time away until early in the New Year. I previously wrote about the need for safety at sea when travelling and reproduce my previously letter in the hope the message will be heeded and we will avoid…