Dear Editor – I would be very pleased if you could spare me a column in your article just to voice out my thoughts and views on the above subject specifically,” betel-nut stain”. I am a student with a deeper concern for the betterment of my country taking this issue into serious consideration. Betel nut…
Dear Editor – An estimated 93 percent of the country’s virgin forest has been lost the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Forestry and Research, Mr Vaeno Vigulu, announced in a recent speech. The main drivers of such deforestation having been commercial logging, he cited. Fortunately, at the last hour, so to say, the Japanese…
Dear Editor – As a Solomon Islands citizen and a scholarship recipient, I sincerely thank the Solomon Islands Government for the commitment of paying monthly allowances for students studying at various universities in Fiji and elsewhere. This is really useful to meet the costs of our stay while studying overseas. Let me share briefly on…
Dear Editor – Farmers of the Weather Coast in Guadalcanal Province have continually expressed their disappointment over feeling neglected as their leaders and the province allegedly fail to recognise their struggles. Your paper last week reported that the farmers, who operate under an umbrella body called the Akutoga Association, made a statement claiming that they…
Dear Editor – News of the capture of those boats bring joy to me. It shows that in cooperation with our law enforcement agencies we can achieve great results despite our lack of resources. This is an evidence of what has happened in the South China Seas today. China is pushing its neighbors out from…
Dear Editor – Now and then some of the MPs are treading in the right direction. You’ll see in the papers MPs would outline their constituency Annual Reports on how they expended ALL funds under their disposal either directly or indirectly via line ministries, and Annual Work Plans for the new year. This ultimately manifests…
Dear Editor – SIBC news reported the shocking state of the Panueli Health Clinic on Savo Island. The clinic is needed to support a local population of 4000 but it is said to be ravaged by white ants, at the point of collapse, has no electricity, no toilets, unreliable water supplies and only one full-time…
Dear Editor – It is a great concern to see the government just giving away to SIWIBA a large amount of public funds to host its awards night. This is just purely waste of tax payers’ money which should have been wisely used to support women venturing into real business activities. I hope there is…
Dear Editor – The women and children who own the Bugusule land on San Jorge Island, Isabel Province, welcome any decision from the Government for an international tender so that a genuine company can be selected to mine the nickel deposit on our land. Straight after we signed the surface access agreement in 2014 one…
Dear Editor – In Radio New Zealand’s ‘Dateline Pacific’ broadcast this Monday evening, 25 March 2017, it was claimed that, in a few years, there could be the possibility of vaccines and other medical supplies delivered rapidly to remote outer islands in Vanuatu by drones. The Vanuatu Government, along with the United Nations children’s agency,…