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.…
DEAR EDITOR – Can you publish the following poem: Life rife of disasterChrist died on EasterBeef full of uric acidMuscles of this nation Full of lactic acid Education full of rivalryMinistry adjusting the systemHealth full of bugsMillions missing in actionGout affecting the investigation Drivers sucking wealth outFrom the shanty townsChina man in control of the…
DEAR EDITOR – It is a serious concern to note that Prime Minister Lilo and his government have been so ignorant not to create an avenue to allow our well educated children who are studying overseas especially in Fiji and PNG so that they can register and exercise their rights to vote for right people…
DEAR EDITOR – John Aonima, whilst your discussions of the disconnected water of White River Community High School (WRCHS) appears to be your main agenda, undergird that in my view is your personal vendetta to discredit and displaced Simon Tepuke, the dully appointed deputy principal of WRCH from his post. How do I know that…
DEAR EDITOR – Please allow me in your column to express my views about two prominent leaders I call as traitors in the former Panga Government and Guadalcanal as a whole. As the political impasse of Guadalcanal Province has already ended, and now we have a new premier, the 7 months storm is over and…