THE country is currently in a wet session. As a result we have been experiencing bad weather over the past weeks. The weather office has continued to issue weather advice and warning about the current bad weather in the country over the past weeks. At the moment there is a low trough near the Renbel…
IN countries ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, governments came up with schemes to keep the economy breathing. It was more or less keeping the economy on a life-support system. The idea is to ensure people remain at work. Our government too came up with one – $309 million of it. But instead of focusing on…
Dear Editor – This Friday in Honiara, Tourism Solomons will host a summit with Solomon Islands industry leaders to those from the ministry, airline and tourism office, local hoteliers, other accommodation operators, transport providers, and tour companies – all working towards fully agreed, fully aligned set objectives in order to focus on the opportunities domestic…
Dear Editor – I refer to the article in the press recently where a Public servant has been repositioned because his activities were obviously corrupt. Why wasn’t the matter referred to the Police for investigation or if he admitted wrongdoing terminated from the Public Service? The money was either our money via taxes and the…
CORRUPTION, it seems, has engulfed every sector in this country – from the pulpit down to the corridors of power and the rule of law. No longer can we trust those who have been entrusted with the authority to enforce the rule of law when it is not in their interest. In some cases, officials…
By Ashley Wickham Those who watched his state funeral heard the official story of his life and about his many significant contributions and accomplishments in his public life. What more can be said of this wonderful man? Plenty! and his many friends can tell you more. Here are some of what I know of this…
Dear Editor – The recent documents posted in the island sun by Steven Maki in response to Wilson Maemae’s call for him to produce legal documents to validate his call for Maemae and Rence Sore to resign from their post, is evidently to the extent that I can agree that the call for Maemae and…
YOU would be forgiven for accepting what the police said about the Mbike Shooting case in 2014. Five people were arrested in 2015 in connection with the shooting and arson attack a year early on the Sun Express boat – a fast boat that transported 17 newly-elected MPs to Mbike resort on Gela, Central Islands…
Dear Editor – The above subject cannot be overlooked by the people responsible. Having said that, I drove into one of the CHS here in Honiara yesterday morning and realized that many students from Renbel have ended up in that particular CHS. While I congratulated the principal and management of that school for that graceful…
Dear Editor – As even time swiftly developments in Bangkok where I have found a home for many years since leaving the Solomon Islands as long ago as 1999, I reflected on the many countries I was privileged to have served in as a policeman since 1959 and decided to turn to U Tube on…