DEAR EDITOR – I wish to take this page to voice out my concern about the selling of land in our capital city, Honiara. The selling of land in our city is probably a matter of fact that had been tremendously done by those who will live in our capital city with the support from…
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Dear Editor – Please allow me a space in your paper for raising my concern about Naoniahu customary land in the East Are’ Are. Naonihau tribal land chiefs did not accept any project for Naoniahu customary land without gathering and the approval from the chiefs of the following antithetical pieces of land in the Naonihau…
Dear Editor- Grateful if you could allow me space to share my heart regarding celebration of Isabel day by some ward in Isabel. Today (Monday) marks one of the big days for Isabel Province. It’s our 2nd appointed day and it’s being celebrated here in Honiara, Buala Headquarter and in some of the wards throughout…
Last week the country joins the world to mark no-tobacco day. It’s a day set aside to look at the impact of tobacco use around globe. According to statistics tobacco use is the world’s leading preventable cause of death, killing nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are non-smokers dying from…
Dear Editor – It was my pleasure to attend the celebrations for World Consumer Rights Day in Gizo on 28 May, organised by the Ministry for Commerce. Primary and secondary school students from local schools including Gizo CHS, Titiana, Ngari and Kukundu all demonstrated excellent public speaking talents in addressing the theme for the day:…
Dear Editor – I would be most grateful if you would publish the following comments in your Solomon Star. Treatment of girls and women in the Solomon Islands and other countries. To keep up with the local, regional and the world’s happenings, the good, the bad, and the ugly, I try daily to buy a…
Responding to someone called, John Vilivata of Honiara, Skyline. Reference to your paper Friday 30th May 2014 – ( Naezon and Rayboy are true traitors) I request in the strongest manner that if you John Vilivata truly a Guadalcanal man then I ask for compensation under Guadalcanal customary against what u have said against me…
Thank you for choosing to read this week’s column. My name is Dr Brinsley Lane and I am a doctor of chiropractic. Were you aware that the body has about seven hundred billion (700 000 000 000) cells? Each of those cells communicates with all the others through the connections of the central nervous system.…
DEAR EDITOR – I wish if you could allow me space in your daily column to stress the above. This is an issue which I think has already been raised by some concerned passengers and bus users. The conditions of some of the buses that are currently operating within our city now are very poor.…