Nothing is new about you For the last 3 times, the same Nothing is new about your lies For your selfishness is obvious This place is not your privacy For in this is the home of many races For freedom and wisdom goes hand in hand For your assumption is foolishness We think that getting older…
By MARGARETH QAE MATH TEACHER FLORENCE YOUNG CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INTRODUCTION – JAB or NO JAB Jab for education or no jab for no education. This is the great diaspora of covid 19 that faces our nation, our children, our youth and threatens the very future of our children. In a few weeks, our schools will…
DEAR EDITOR – I have grown to know and love the Solomon Islands over the past 18 years. My first trip to Honiara from the US was tied to family history and WWII. That history is not what has kept me returning to the Solomon Islands. It is the people, the beauty, the problems and…
DEAR EDITOR – Thanks for allowing me to write my views on some issues that are of interest. Two issues that have dominated our Media recently are the “proposed” extension of parliament and the security agreement with China. As rural area resident, I see a lot of misinformation being circulated on these two controversial subjects…
All humanity have a defense system That you live in harmony with all Leadership is all about humility To lead is to serve No one wants to make war For war is a waste of energy Resources and humanity For in it there is no development To be self- serving is the key to war…
DEAR EDITOR – A CT scan machine at the NRH is likely to be operational and in use at the hospital in May. A highly expensive diagnostic tool, a computerized tomography (CT scan), and machine that the NRH has long needed is reported to be fully installed and operational at the hospital next month. It…
THE country will soon take ownership of its firstever new world class synthetic training running track. For the first time the public was able to get a glimpse of the new running track after the 2023 Pacific Games Stadium Project was able to publish some of the first photos of the running tracks. Many have…
Q: Why should China and Solomon Islands sign security agreement? A: Solomon Islands has bitter memories of social unrest in the past decades since its independence. In November 2021, riot broke out again in Honiara and resulted in huge property losses and social panic. The government of Solomon Islands decided to diversify its international security…
The Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare on Tuesday in Parliament labelled the public servants or maybe some members of his party or the DCGA Coalition as “LUNATICS” over the leakage of his DCGA/CHINA Security Deal. Prior to that he called the citizens of Solomon Islands whose entrusted power he exercises as “TOM DICK AND HARRY”…
IN 1981 I was sent to cover the then South Pacific Forum Meeting in Port Vila, Vanuatu. (I was then a reporter with the Port Moresby-based Post Courier newspaper, owned by multi-millionaire Rupert Murdoch). As it was my first overseas assignment, I was determined to make the most of it. There were other Port Moresby…