Moves to stop new candidates from contesting national election SOLOMON Islands will go to the polls early 2019 and the political race for the 50 parliamentary seats has begun. We are now halfway into 2018 and to date there has been no information available from the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission as to when the Registration…
ON May 30, 2018, PRC’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) spokesman An Fengshan asserted that mainland China and Taiwan have entered a phase of competition for better system and talents since CCP’s (Chinese Communist Party) 19th Party Congress last November. Mr An quoted Taiwan’s public opinion, stating that (Taiwan’s political parties) KMT, DPP and CCP should…
Dear Editor – Whether we like it or not, it’s slowly but surely creeping into the land, the same sex marriage affair. S.I. hold on fast on the laws that you have which prohibits the same sex marriage or the Advocates deceive you. It is now a talk of the globe get ready to tackle…
Dear Editor – When addressing the New Zealand Pacific Council in Auckland recently, Prime Minister Rick Hou spoke about the need for the Solomon Islands to gradually curtail aid and to replace it with trade. The PM said, “It is politically and economically prudent that Solomon Islands gradually replace aid with trade, which will in…
From 8th April to 14th April, it is Anti International harassment week and is currently remembered by thirty countries through- out the world focusing more on Girl’s safety. This article is focus on safety of young girls starting with sexual harassment, to violence and other issues that are obstacles to their freedom of movement, their…
PARTNERSHIP according to Thesaurus English is – companionship, relationship, alliance. For the purpose of my presentation, I will pick on the first two words; companionship and relationship. Companionship or relationship was and has been the very purpose, why God created Eve. God had already foreseen that Adam being by himself would experience extreme loneliness. Thus,…
Dear Editor – An overview of health in the Solomon Islands remains characterized by high levels of infectious diseases, including malaria, respiratory diseases, water borne diarrhoea diseases and an increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The latter, as I have consistently written about, because of changes in diet and lifestyle habits. Among the major determinants…
Dear Editor – The problems associated with littering in Honiara are concerns that I have taken notice of for the past 21 years and when I read this week in the Island Sun that the Honiara City Council’s Health Inspector, George Titiulu, was again appealing for the public to take extra care in disposing of…
Dear Editor – Just the thought of it makes me want to puke. Like I wrote earlier in your paper, one thing leads to another. The ‘modus operandi’ used by the advocates of this issue is to promote it publicly through what we call human rights. Children’s rights, women’s rights, animal’s rights, Lesbian Gay Bisexual…
Dear Editor – New Zealand fruit growers are full of praise for the seasonal workers from the Solomon Islands as quoted in a news bulletin broadcast by Radio New Zealand today, 7 June 2018. Quote: “We couldn’t have done it without you” – New Zealand fruit grower John Van Vliet was full of praise for…