CHRISTIANS around the world will tomorrow celebrate Easter. This is an important event in the Christian calendar. It commemorates the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Christianity was built on Easter. Without the death and resurrection of Jesus, there would be no Christianity. It is on Easter that Christians built their…
Dear Editor – I would be most grateful if you could include my piece on cattle rehabilitation debate in Solomon Islands. I have been following the cattle rehabilitation as it has progressed since 2008 and have yet to see this important agriculture commodity move beyond a few media articles, there is even no clear cattle…
Dear Editor – The Central province education authority is very quiet about the only school the province owns. Semester 1 began 1 of February for all schools in Solomon Islands however this is not the case for Siota PSS. Into weeks 8 of semester1 and it has not started. What is more, the school is…
Dear Editor – Can you please share my piece of information with our Government and for our public to discuss? I read recently that Fiji is facing a severe shortage of timber and available logs for the rebuilding of home after the recent cyclone that badly damaged and left a lot of our fellow wantoks…
Shortly before the then deputy prime minister forced Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s hand to push me to jump ship last July, I had a number of visits by displaced or aggrieved employees of the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA). This was at the time Mr Colin Yow had just taken over as the Chief Executive…
Dear Editor – The world is changing in technology and in order to change we have to spend some millions of dollars to feel the change and betterment. To my personal view, what SIPA boss does is just the beginning of the ”Change and Betterment’. Let’s sit and watch. This reform can’t affect us from…
Dear Editor – I write purposely to clarify to your readers’ the payment received by SIPA Board members. There are obvious incorrect information carried in articles ‘Hefty bonues revealed’ and ‘PS clarifies, admits hefty SIPA payment’ published in the Solomon Star issue No. 6139 and Sunday Star 2oth March respectively. As permanent secretary responsible for…
Dear Editor – Please allow me space in your paper to respond to the letter written by Patricia Sam Dalu, Published in the Island Sun on Wednesday 16th March 2016. In the letter, Patricia Sam Dalu raised the question of who mandated the current Bina/Talifu Interim committee per say and therefore the registration of Bina/Talifu…
Dear Editor – With the passing of our statesman, the late Sir Peter, we all had our moment of quiet reflection on the life of late Sir Peter and his family. I would like to convey a few words that I feel I need to express and share to the passing of a gentle and…
Rising inequality threatens to derail, from the start, successful implementation of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific region. Stronger, more equitable social protection will be critical in overcoming these challenges. New research by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) indicates that inequality, related to…