The MP for North Vella Lavella, Milner Tozaka has told a Regional Consultation Conference on human rights in Auckland, New Zealand that having women in Solomon Islands Parliament is a move in the right direction because violence against women could be wiped out. He told the conference, which discussed the roles of MPs as agents…
THE UN Women says it is looking forward to implement their new project on women’s political participation in close partnership with the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission office. Gaylyn Puairana of UN Women office in Honiara made the remarks yesterday at the launching of projects to support the electoral registration process. Solomon Islands Development Trust (SIDT)…
WHEN Alexis Fretz was 30 years old and 19 weeks pregnant, she began to bleed. Concerned but not alarmed, she called her midwife, who advised her to go to the emergency room, just to make sure everything was OK. She was in the waiting room with husband Joshua in a hospital in Kokomo, Indiana, when…
Whenever you drive past Lungga during weekends you would probably heard people talking about sisi dance. Although it’s a DJ music with a dance similar to those of the clubs in Honiara, the presence of Temotu people residing at Lungga best described the dance as sisi. However, a real sisi dance is totally a different…
Islands Business: Young people, particularly children, young women and people living with disabilities, have traditionally been marginalised in development processes and hurt by systemic and structural discrimination and inaction. This, according to Rebecca Solomon, needs to change. Solomon, a young woman from Vanuatu, is an active member of the Vanuatu National Youth Council, the Pacific…
A THREE-DAY peace building and trauma healing workshop, hosted by the Anglican Church in Auki Keava region, ended successfully yesterday. The workshop, which started on Tuesday, attracted about 40 youths from different churches around Auki township. Leslie Filiomea, Malaita diocese reconciliation and peace coordinator, said this was the second region to hold this kinds of…
YOUTHS from Varamatta Seventh Day Adventist Church in Honiara last week helped raise 50,000 vatu ($3,750) for the extension of a Church on Pele Island in Vanuatu. The youths who travelled to Vanuatu after Christmas to attend Vanuatu’s National Youth Congress early this year, organised a praise and give concert at which the Varamatta youth,…
LOCAL gospel boy-band, Soul Seekers, has had its final concert in Port Vila, Vanuatu filmed, produced live and soon to be released. The group, which left for Vanuatu a little after Christmas, have over the past two weeks involved in witnessing through music throughout Port Vila and also have had the opportunity to travel to…
A MONUMENT to mark the arrival of gospel by Catholic missionaries in Langalanga lagoon of Malaita some 100 years ago was erected on Foudoru. The people of the village and surrounding communities celebrated the centenary last year. The Solomon Star on Tuesday travelled through the Langalanga lagoon and came across the monument on the small…
Last week I introduced the topic ‘The Bible our final authority.’ In the article, I discussed four common responses people usually do when they are faced with problems in life. I refer to these four responses as escapism, cynicism, humanism and supernaturalism as common crutches on which people lean. Unfortunately, none of these is…