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…
Dear Editor, IT is God’s plan for the human race to prosper and progress in life. Seeing that human beings were created in the image and the likeness of God our Creator, our connection to other human beings is of paramount importance and hence, we must cherish and share the love and kindness that our…
Dear Editor, More than two decades ago when I took over command of the then Solomon Islands Police Force (SIPF) public trust in the local police force was low, exacerbated by a critical shortage of budgetary support from the government of the day, a strict moratorium on recruitment, personnel having to wear shabby, old uniforms,…
Dear Editor, I have the privilege of growing up and seeing the beauty of our town post ethnic tension and prior through photos of old. The community feeling, the mangoes, the rain trees, the Christmas trees, frangipanis, the coolness, the shade, the island beauty reverberated still fully in the surrounding. Slowly changes have occurred, raises…