Dear Editor – I wish to express my dissatisfaction after I boarded Fair Lady from Honiara to Auki on Monday this week. I am not satisfied with the services provided inside the ship because it does not have a canvas at its back-top area. As a result, those of us sitting in the area and…
Dear Editor – The subject above strikes me to share my concern with the public. Knowing China as a threat to every neighbouring country including the Pacific for Coronavirus, I have great concern for this country. The Solomon Islands is highly at risk to this virus as it continues to spread since we are filled…
DEAR EDITOR – Many thanks to Lawrence Kiko of Borderline for his comments and most importantly highlighting the brief history about the original idea and theme of what is father’s day concept. Solomon Star Issue No. 7311, Tuesday 3 September 2019. Properly to us in Solomon Islands (Melanesia) we might have had the original cultural…
DEAR EDITOR -Thank you for the space to get this message to all God fearing people of Solomon Islands. All ordinary Solomon islanders, we must take comfort on the fact that the omnipresent surveillance camera from the heavenly realm is relentlessly recording all that was said & done by our so called leaders in the…
DEAR EDITOR – What a sad day – now that some of our leaders have chosen China! You will be held accountable by the generations to come for the choice that you have made today! Do we not realise that we have a third choice besides the CHINA or TAIWAN saga? And that third choice…
DEAR EDITOR – In the Solomon star of Friday 20th Malaita premier Suidani said that the SIG decision to sever ties with Taiwan deprived Malaita and its people largely from benefiting from a USD$300 million package offered by USA to Malaita for its development aspirations. I think this is a latest move by USA to…
DEAR EDITOR – The people of Solomon Islands are already facing a bill from the switch that Sogavare’s government voted for on Monday 16 September. It is a $53million Solomon Islands dollar loan that the ROC was repaying on behalf of SIG. It was due to be paid off by 2025, but with the switch…
DEAR EDITOR – Solomon Islands is an independent state that has gained its independence in 1978 thanks to the Ma’asina rule – the movement with vision that enabled us to stand on our own. With the vision, our forefathers have chosen to remain a democratic country meaning a country rule by people. This is nicely…
DEAR EDITOR – In 2016, the former Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer, Joaquim Levy, wrote about the gap he perceived in private investment. Although he was then writing in general terms, there were several paragraphs in his article I thought relevant to the situation in the Solomon Islands at that time.…
DEAR EDITOR – The current strong support and intention of most of our MPs fordiplomatic switch from Taiwan to China only reflect poorly on the leadership that lackedintegrity, wisdom, maturity and visionary mindsets that blinded by false assumptions and self-beneficial interests at the cost of tax payers and resource owners in this nation. This nation…