The 2014 academic year has kicked off once again. And this means, more working people and students are commuting each day through the public transport system to their work place and school respectively. In light of the demand for public transport system in Honiara, most bus drivers and their conductors have once again played their…
A mission to educate pacific islanders and discourage them from using genetic modified organism (GMO) seeds to grow on their farms for food and sales is currently underway. A Noumea based non-government organisation (NGO) in New Caledonia called ‘Stop MGO Pacifique’ is visiting parts of the pacific to collect data and information on GMO in…
Twenty five years ago something wonderful happened for children of every nation and generation with the launch of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 193 countries –including every country in the Pacific — have acceded to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, making it the most agreed global Convention in history.…
Dear Editor – I can’t help myself laughing at Opposition group’s questioning the Prime Minister’s visits to the Police headquarters. It seems the group must’ve come out from a delirious state or a hallucination of some kind. What is the issue here about PM’s visits to the Police headquarters? To say the visit is highly…
Dear Editor – Your issue No. 5412 on Saturday 25th January 2014 carried an article with the above caption by one Philip Szetu, please allow me to respond. In his opening paragraph, Mr. Szetu sought permission to allow him to respond to my article published in your Issue No. 5393 on 3rd January 2014 “for…
Dear Editor – Allow me to refer to the views expressed which were carried in your paper by concerned groups and citizens of Solomon Islands and our neighbouring Melanesian countries on the issue of West Papua. The MSG delegation that went to Indonesia on a ‘fact finding mission’ on the West Papua issue, was alleged…
Dear Editor – I would like to register my personal view in regards to Guadalcanal Province tug of war which almost took half of last year unsolved. Goodbye 2013, welcome 2014. May I first of all congratulate Premier Panga and his minority group for winning the game at last. The securing of three (3) new…
Dear Editor – Education has become, for better or worse — mostly worse — one of the two or three major foci of Political conflict. As an object of Political controversy, the disease is now overwhelmingly gnawing its way to the rural level. No longer, is Education a priority for some fairy-tale fathers. For although…
Dear Editor – The article no 5407 on Monday 20th January 2014, written by Steve Sae truly challenge our preconception by saying that, nowadays Solomon Islands is soaring hugely into unemployment. There are some very important points where Sae raised. If the government does not take serious consideration to tackle the issue of unemployment in…
Dear Editor – I refer to various correspondences and commentaries by the Leader of the Opposition, the Member of Parliament for North East Choiseul, some lawyers and the general public here and overseas regarding the former Attorney General Julian Moti. The debate started after the Prime Minister announced in the National Parliament the possibility of…