IN a media release this week the Special Secretary to Prime Minister (SSPM) Rence Sore made an attempt to justify to the public that the $3.7 Million payment Government made to the owners of Sun Express was a financial support. If this is true, then this would be in direct contradiction to the Cabinet decision…
Dear Editor – I am writing to express my personal views after reading PM’s Special Secretary’s comments in regard to the recent government payout to Breakwater Cafe owners which appeared is Star issue No. 5942. The tone in Rence Sore’s news release is very easy to see through from any angle that those types of…
Dear Editor – Although not directly related issues, two articles in the local Solomon Island’s media caught my attention during last week. The first article referred to the reported failure of 28 students to meet their academic studies at the University of the South Pacific and would be returning home. I don’t know the background…
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Dear Editor – The above poem by a certain Tina Zhai is an interesting one. If she is one believing in the second coming of our Lord, then as all Christians do, we all believe in a better world when the Lord will recreate and make all things new. Then there will be peace and…
Dear Editor – The acclamation about the discovery of minerals at Nende, Santa Cruz, is a child play, cynical, holds no water and utterly rubbish. Minerals can be found anywhere in the world and for somebody to say to you mineral is in your land and you started towing and pounding here and there is…
Dear Editor – During the beginning of the year when the former PS of Mines and Energy was axed for defending his ministry amidst the controversial Bintang mining issue; Sasako as the media consultant arrogantly came out in the media and defended the DCC government decision; telling the country that the government had the power…
Dear Editor – I read your front page story in Friday’s paper with considerable interest. The story was about magistrate Esther Lelapitu defending her decision to sign and issue the No Appeal Certificate to Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID). She was defending her action and reputation after her fellow magistrate Jim Seuika wrote to the…
Dear Editor – I wish to applaud Jimmy Hanahunu for his courageous exposure of bribery and stand against such malpractices. I do not believe that it is the work of Jefter, but someone or organisation behind him. I say this because I have experienced such an experience where the law was being manipulated divert the…
Dear Editor – The above news article made me want to puke. Why? Because it makes me sick feeling the rottenness of our leaders in their way of thinking. Right, so you made a payment. You found out later it’s not legal according to the financial orders or whatever legal apparatus there is. You cook…