By JEMIMA GARRETT*Writing in the Interpreter THE refusal of the Vanuatu government to allow high-profile Vanuatu-based journalist to fly home on Saturday has given a sharper edge to concerns about a wider trend of attacks on media freedom in the Pacific and highlights both China’s influence and Australia’s policy failure in broadcast and other…
Bougainville’s independence referendum explained By KATE LYONSGuardian Australia TODAY, the people of Bougainville – a small archipelago of islands flung 700km off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Sea – will begin voting in a referendum that will determine if their beloved homeland will become the world’s newest nation. It is…
PRINCE Charles arrives tomorrow evening in Honiara and leaves on Monday afternoon. This is a significant visit because this man is the future King of England. He’ll succeed the throne when his mother, Queen Elizabeth, dies. As a member of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth is our head of state. She is represented here by the…
By WARREN PAIAMunda, Western Province IT does not have to be controversial. It does not have to be an issue that polarizes the views and positions of so many people in this country. But the reality is that it has and continues to enrage the contending parties on the issue of Government’s diplomatic recognition of…
By SETH GUKUNAWest Honiara THE decision taken by our Government for this country to switch to China was based on the cabinet paper that Cabinet endorsed on September 16th 2019. In that paper our Ministers would have been given the reasons as to why this country needs to move to China. That…
DEAR EDITOR – Many thanks to Lawrence Kiko of Borderline for his comments and most importantly highlighting the brief history about the original idea and theme of what is father’s day concept. Solomon Star Issue No. 7311, Tuesday 3 September 2019. Properly to us in Solomon Islands (Melanesia) we might have had the original cultural…
DEAR EDITOR -Thank you for the space to get this message to all God fearing people of Solomon Islands. All ordinary Solomon islanders, we must take comfort on the fact that the omnipresent surveillance camera from the heavenly realm is relentlessly recording all that was said & done by our so called leaders in the…
DEAR EDITOR – What a sad day – now that some of our leaders have chosen China! You will be held accountable by the generations to come for the choice that you have made today! Do we not realise that we have a third choice besides the CHINA or TAIWAN saga? And that third choice…
DEAR EDITOR – In the Solomon star of Friday 20th Malaita premier Suidani said that the SIG decision to sever ties with Taiwan deprived Malaita and its people largely from benefiting from a USD$300 million package offered by USA to Malaita for its development aspirations. I think this is a latest move by USA to…
DEAR EDITOR – The people of Solomon Islands are already facing a bill from the switch that Sogavare’s government voted for on Monday 16 September. It is a $53million Solomon Islands dollar loan that the ROC was repaying on behalf of SIG. It was due to be paid off by 2025, but with the switch…