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…
Dear Editor – For years there have been calls to close down the Fishing Village market area in East Honiara. It seems the Honiara city council administration had been powerless to take action. Its very frustrating each day just to get stuck in the traffic along the Fishing Village market area because vehicles were parking…
Dear Editor – As a rural dweller and one victimised by the industrialised nation’s greed, I found the surface thought of a certain Fr Akao, interesting and a little inspiring. However, Fr. Akao has not organised his presentation in a clear and coherent manner. Thus, he has not done justice to the issue discussed,…
Dear Editor – The recent news revealing that government experience shortage of lawyers is a mistake from those who do planning and scholarship awards to students attending universities under Solomon Islands government (SIG) sponsorship. I have to raise this because this problem as revealed from the office of the DPP shows that there is lack of…
Dear Editor – Can the management of Bank South Pacific (BSP) do something to improve its services. Monday was very frustrating for many customers who want to access the ATM services especially those in East Honiara. Since the morning most of the ATMs located at Kukum area and Panatina Plaza expressed their apology because they…
Dear Editor – With much respect for this country’s fine cultural tradition of decorating public spaces by spitting red coloured betel nut stain all over them, I would like take this opportunity to kindly request that people refrain from decorating my car in this fashion. Others may not mind, but to put it gently, I…
Dear Editor – Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID) wish to clarify issues raised on the front page of the Sunday Star dated 10th June 2018 that carried the $3M unpaid bills claims. Before APID dwells further into the issue, we wish to strongly register our disappointment over Solomon Star for not having the courtesy to…
Dear Editor – It is coming, watch out, like a tsunami wave, or a devastating cyclone, or a deadly killer shark, like a roaring lion, (though not the devil himself). But it is approaching and coming very swiftly. Not many years ago I’ve never heard of it, though it was not absent in the world.…
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…