Dear Editor – I wish to express by concern over a recent incident at the Gizo Hospital, Western Province. On Wednesday 5th May, I was very sick and went to Gizo Hospital at around 7.30 pm. When I arrived at the outpatient I could not see any nurse. I asked a patient and he said,…
Dear Editor – The Royal Solomon Islands Police have been called upon to exercise its mandate and ultimate responsibilities to safeguard and upheld the Laws of our country, and in applying the law it must be done with utmost fairness. No one is above the LAW, including and significantly those foreign logging companies who have…
Dear Editor – The fourth USP campus is seen as a very important government project in the Solomon Islands. A $15.4 million ADB concessional loan, together with an ADB-administered grant of $1.5 million from the Clean Energy Fund, will finance the new campus. The USP Honiara Campus will provide additional classrooms, an ICT studio, science…
Dear Editor – Domestic tourism was on the agenda at the Tourism Summit being held at the Honiara Heritage Park Hotel last Friday. I feel sure the issue of a resumption of international travel have come up for discussion given the losses the local travel industry has suffered since the onset of Covid-19 across the world,…
Dear Editor – I read the letter to the Editor of the Solomon Times Online last week written by someone named Sammy Junior Cena from West Kwara’ae. He wrote, and I quote. “In a society where a large percentage of youths want to go entrepreneurial, that is, striving to enter in entrepreneurship perhaps specifically want…
Dear Editor – Knowing that Tourism Solomon Islands is hosting a summit on Friday in Honiara to promote domestic travel amidst the coronavirus problems still affecting many countries in the world and the consequential drop in tourist visitors to the Solomon Islands, I came across an article written and posted last week by Andrew Curran…
Dear Editor – “You will never be ready until you start doing something,” (The late Sir Michael Somare). Papua New Guineans are mourning the loss of the man who was the central figure in the country’s passage to independence. Sir Michael Somare passed away last week in Port Moresby after being diagnosed with advanced pancreatic…
Dear Editor – This Friday in Honiara, Tourism Solomons will host a summit with Solomon Islands industry leaders to those from the ministry, airline and tourism office, local hoteliers, other accommodation operators, transport providers, and tour companies – all working towards fully agreed, fully aligned set objectives in order to focus on the opportunities domestic…
Dear Editor – I refer to the article in the press recently where a Public servant has been repositioned because his activities were obviously corrupt. Why wasn’t the matter referred to the Police for investigation or if he admitted wrongdoing terminated from the Public Service? The money was either our money via taxes and the…
Dear Editor – The recent documents posted in the island sun by Steven Maki in response to Wilson Maemae’s call for him to produce legal documents to validate his call for Maemae and Rence Sore to resign from their post, is evidently to the extent that I can agree that the call for Maemae and…