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…
Dear Editor – Please publish the following: It’s the demon’s water of life That contributes to killing his wife When he was floating on the waters Noah’s flood matters as it was better In destroying his devotees This destroyer better utilized Elsewhere as cleaning agents Rather than water for the oesohagus And the stomach…
Dear Editor – The press release by SINPF in the Solomon Star newspaper, No. 6829 on Thursday 15th February 2018, including the statement issued by the CEO of NASFUND of Papua New Guinea, in response to the issues raised by George Kosui and myself does not answered the questions raised in relation to the…
Prominent businessman survives knife attack By LESLEY SANGA POLICE are now hunting down men who attacked prominent Honiara businessman John Lee during an attempted robbery at Point Cruz, 7.30am on Wednesday. Mr Lee, who owns Lee Kwok Quen Company, was about to enter the gates of his business premises when a man emerged from a…