Dear Editor – When Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare met with his Papua New Guinea counterpart, the Hon James Marape recently in Honiara the pair talked about the need to eradicate malaria which affects both Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Malaria is a debilitating sickness that can make strong, healthy adults bedridden for weeks and…
Dear Editor – If I may share a few thoughts on the above topic which appears every day after the CBSI intelligence press conference last week. Firstly, I concur with few citizens who have expressed their views regarding the way the so-called ‘CBSI intelligence team’ seems to do their work. Obviously, I believe the work…
Dear Editor – We have been told by Dr. Soma the Oncologist specialist at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) that upwards of 200 to 300 people are dying each year at the NRH from cervical cancer, breast cancer, mouth cancer, and thyroid cancer. Dr. Soma didn’t mention lung cancer when he spoke during the recent…
Dear Editor – I wish to express my dissatisfaction after I boarded Fair Lady from Honiara to Auki on Monday this week. I am not satisfied with the services provided inside the ship because it does not have a canvas at its back-top area. As a result, those of us sitting in the area and…
Dear Editor – The subject above strikes me to share my concern with the public. Knowing China as a threat to every neighbouring country including the Pacific for Coronavirus, I have great concern for this country. The Solomon Islands is highly at risk to this virus as it continues to spread since we are filled…
DEAR EDITOR – Many thanks to Lawrence Kiko of Borderline for his comments and most importantly highlighting the brief history about the original idea and theme of what is father’s day concept. Solomon Star Issue No. 7311, Tuesday 3 September 2019. Properly to us in Solomon Islands (Melanesia) we might have had the original cultural…
DEAR EDITOR -Thank you for the space to get this message to all God fearing people of Solomon Islands. All ordinary Solomon islanders, we must take comfort on the fact that the omnipresent surveillance camera from the heavenly realm is relentlessly recording all that was said & done by our so called leaders in the…
DEAR EDITOR – What a sad day – now that some of our leaders have chosen China! You will be held accountable by the generations to come for the choice that you have made today! Do we not realise that we have a third choice besides the CHINA or TAIWAN saga? And that third choice…
DEAR EDITOR – In the Solomon star of Friday 20th Malaita premier Suidani said that the SIG decision to sever ties with Taiwan deprived Malaita and its people largely from benefiting from a USD$300 million package offered by USA to Malaita for its development aspirations. I think this is a latest move by USA to…
DEAR EDITOR – The people of Solomon Islands are already facing a bill from the switch that Sogavare’s government voted for on Monday 16 September. It is a $53million Solomon Islands dollar loan that the ROC was repaying on behalf of SIG. It was due to be paid off by 2025, but with the switch…