Dear Editor – Gratefully allow me space under your editorial column to highlight and correct the wrong profile information given about the two national leaders on our National Parliament website. I was browsing through our national Parliament website (http://www.parliament.gov.sb/index.php?q=node/833) for research purposes. My researching on our former and current Members of Parliament resulted with locating…
Dear Editor – The People with Disability Solomon Islands organisation’s president Casper Fa’asala in a statement he made over Radio New Zealand International’s Dateline Pacific news programme a few days ago commented on the lack of accessibility for disabled persons to buildings, shops and banks in Honiara. Major banks, and their subsidiaries, are generally committed…
Dear Editor – Perhaps it is essential to voice out concerns and view with regards to the work and pathway of literacy in the country. As we observe world international literacy day today, Solomon Islands need to look seriously and get down to rural area to address the literacy basic skills to illiterates. There are…
Dear Editor – I wish to thank the contractor for the repair works of the road section in front of Our Telekom red house at Ranadi, East Honiara. That’s a job well done. Further down from Marine School Kukum all the way to Bahaii there were some good work being done. So thanks for that.…
Dear Editor – Please allows space to cast my views on the unfair United Nations (UN) Peace Keeping Deployment selection process for RSIPF. It looks as though the Commissioner and his two Deputy Commissioners were very unfair in their selection panel and interview process. Those selected for the UN deployment were about five junior officers…
No longer meaningful these days Teachers highly qualified With little dedication and commitment Ministry of Education; a sluggish cucumber With too many systems that does not recognized The profession But lip service is the norm of the day Students no longer; resources for Nationhood A revenue for the impious administrators Spending as they wish…
Dear Editor – I wish to comment on the Ten Steps for Successful Land Reform stated by McDonnell published on your paper on the 27th of August 2015. As an indigenous Solomon Islander and with a Melanesian background, I believe the Ten Steps mentioned is probably not applicable for the society like Solomon Islands at…
Dear Editor – According to a Radio New Zealand International news bulletin on 1 September 2015, the United States Federal Government will be sending a high-level delegation to the Pacific Islands Forum’s Post Forum Dialogue in Papua New Guinea next week. The US State Department has said the visit aims to emphasize the depth and…
Dear Editor – Thanks a lot for allowing this little bit of space for me to elaborate on the given subject that was highlighted above very clearly. There’s nothing new but I just want to stress some few reminders/advices to the Dalgro company that was given the contract to do the tar sealing on the…
Dear Editor – It is annoying for someone like Makili to condemn land reform experts trying their best to lend us their highly knowledgeable insights during the recent two days land reform summit. In his actual words, Makili asserted, “those experts don’t know anything about customary land.”. The question is, who is this Makili, anyway?…