DURING a speech at Taiwan’s National Day celebrations in Honiara yesterday, the ROC Ambassador, H.E. Roger Luo, told the audience that leading Taiwanese solar manufacturer, Speedtech, would be coming to the Honiara to set up a solar panel factory early next…
DEAR Editor, It was mentioned in the SUN newspaper this week that the Prime Minister, on his recent visit to Taiwan, was surprised and delighted to learn that there were more than 100 Solomon Islands students in tertiary education centres…
YESTERDAY, I wrote to your newspaper about a claim made to me that up to 400 people in the Solomon Islands are without prosthetic limbs, mainly prosthetic legs, following surgery. It seems as if my news merely scratched the surface…
PLASTIC in our oceans is an increasing problem to marine life and our environment and I was interested to learn this past week of two new ideas to help reduce our plastic bag usage and to make use of waste…
Dear Editor, LAST week local newspapers published an article of mine entitled, ‘The people have spoken.’ The article was written after the acting Prime Minister had received a petition from Civil Society members calling for the government to re-introduce the…
A letter reached me the other day from a Solomon Islands lady living at Tikopia who, in her own words, said, “It saddens me greatly that our beautiful tiny Islands in Ontong Java are actually being washed away centimeter by…
NOLON Salmon Parairua has been chosen to represent the Solomon Islands at the forthcoming One Young World Summit 2017 taking place in Bogata, Colombia, between 4 to 7 October. Nolan will proudly represent his country at the Summit and carry…
DEAR Editors Following the appeal I made to Lions Clubs (NZ) through your newspaper columns this week for a donation of spectacles for needy people in the Solomon Islands, I am delighted to say I have received positive news with…
DEAR EDITOR, According to late evening news bulletin from Radio New Zealand (RNZI) tonight, 20 September 2017, Fiji has been lauded for taking on COP23 presidency. Quoting RNZI the bulletin said: “A German government official, Jochen Flasbarth, says Fiji’s decision…
DEAR EDITOR, last week the Acting Prime Minister received a petition from a representative of the local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) which called for the re-introduction of a raft of anti-corruption legislation earlier withdrawn from Parliament by the Prime Minister.…
