Dear Editor – Last week Ms Caroline Laore, one of the former TRC Commissioners, wrote a letter to the SI media urging the Solomon Islands Government to act on the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, saying the TRC report was tabled in parliament in 2012 but had never been acted upon. Ms Laore…
Dear Editor – I wish to respond to an article public in your paper on Thursday regarding the above topic which you receive information’s from Matthew Matok. For purposes of my response I will use MM in reference to him. Firstly, MM is not a landowner in any way but a conman as he is…
Dear Editor – On front page of Solomon Star No. 6835, Wednesday 21st February, 2018, “29 Bougainvilleans nabbed”. On page 3 of that same paper, “Russians here to lobby, says govt.” Rumours here in Central Kwara’ae we heard a team of Israelis arrived at Henderson airport on Monday and all lights at the airport…
Dear Editor – Please give me some space to share my piece on NPF issue which appeared on paper no 6837, the follow up by Charles Dausabea in response to the NPF Board. I must admit that my remoteness in the province made me read the story a bit late and I couldn’t figure out…
Dear Editor – I wish to respond to an article public in your paper on Thursday regarding the above topic which you receive information’s from Matthew Matok. For purposes of my response I will use MM in reference to him. Firstly, MM is not a landowner in any way but a conman as he is…
Dear Editor – A new grim warning has emerged from a speaker at the Climate Change Conference held in Wellington, Thursday, 22 February 2018. Quoting Radio New Zealand International this is what was claimed to have occurred. “A prominent New Zealand research scientist says sea level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet may be twice…
DIARRHOEA is a common illness for more than a third of people in Honiara, the coastal capital of Solomon Islands, where informal settlements with poor sanitation and water dominate. But the risk of diarrhoeal disease increases in the annual wet season, from November to April, and escalates during floods and natural disasters. The World Health…
Dear Editor – I write to congratulate Solomon warriors FC for making it into the first three finals. Although they went down quite badly to Erakor Golden Stars in the first game, they bounced back and won their two remaining ones. They regrouped, reorganised and regained their focus to be proven as worthy HFA League…
I SWEAR it wasn’t my fault. But, it didn’t matter. Everybody was convinced it was my fault. I was the one who ran into the barbed wire fence. And now, I stood before my mother, crying at the top of my lungs, blood dripping from a gash across my chest and down my naked round…
Dear Editor – A 20 foot container with equipment supplies worth more than NZ$37,620, is on its way from New Zealand and is expected to arrive in Honiara on 11 March. The donated contents of the container were requested from Take My Hands Charitable Trust, based in Auckland, following appeals made for assistance from local NGO’s…