Dear Editor – Over the past many days Honiara has witnessed a mob burning buildings with youth stealing cargoes from them before they were devoured in flames. This destruction of businesses, some owned by Solomon Islanders and most employing Solomon Islanders, has shown what unskilled, uneducated and unemployed youth are capable of doing under the…
Dear Editor – It is heartbreaking to see images of a repeat of early 2000. I was in Honiara with my family at the time and witnessed the trauma the children and women went through during the hostilities between Guadalcanal and Malaita. I praise God for the 30 years I had there, witnessing the early…
Dear Editor – I wish to give my apologies to the people of Choiseul regarding my Facebook post. The post came up after I received a post on Facebook swearing to us, the people of Malaita. However, I forgive whoever did that swearing to us Malaitans and I too apologize to the Choiseul people for…
Dear Editor – I want to write more therefore if you could allow me a space in your paper because I need to say something regarding the issue above. I thought that COVID-19 is one of the global pandemics that want us to adjust our systems. The strict measures that are currently enforced to prevent…
Dear Editor – I refer to Solomon Power’s response to my earlier article which Solomon Star carried on page 4 of the paper on Wednesday 17th November 2021. Solomon Power’s article was set out to kill the messenger, the usual type of attack on journalists. In response, I wish to say this. I stand by…
Dear Editor – Recently I heard Hon. Peter Kenilorea Jr being interviewed on the radio about a suggestion that the Government wants to extend the life of the current Parliament by a further 12 months. The reason being that the next General Election is due in 2023, the same year as the Pacific Games. The…
Dear Editor – Please do not print misleading articles such as the one about a mobile phone stuck to a girl’s arm after she had a Covid vaccination. This story has been printed in multiple right wing media outlets in the US, and proven to be false many times: Stories such as this are the…
Dear Editor – Radio New Zealand relayed news on Thursday, that the New Zealand Government is further stepping up its relationship with Pacific nations. Its Pacific Reset, ushered in by Winston Peters several years ago, is now to go further and focus on resilience. Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said this was the natural next step…
Dear Editor – In the Solomon Islands local media on the 29 October, 2021, it was reported that H.E. Robert Sisilo, Solomon Islands High Commissioner in Canberra was calling on Australia to permit Solomon Islands and Pacific Islands students to “pay local tuition fees [only] instead of the prohibitively expensive international fees”. As a Pacific…
Dear Editor – A major deforestation deal has been announced at the end of COP26’s first day of the leaders’ summit where big polluters made new commitments, but with substantial caveats. The first day of the two-day leaders summit at the COP26 climate summit has ended with big polluters making new commitments but with substantial…