A response to Bodo Dettke’s media claims BY WALTER FOLOTALU Former politician Noni (Kikiri or Kobu) farmer AS a local noni farmer from the province (Malaita), I wish to challenge MP Bodo Dettke’s statement over the SIBC recently, calling on…
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it. (Prov. 22:6 NIV) CHILDREN are very important members of the family. The responsibility of raising and training children belong…
The Paradox of Fiji’s Race Politics FIJI’s contemporary politics has always been laced with racial overtones, even in the midst of the current Fiji First Party-led government’s attempts to erase race from Fijians’ political consciousness. The country’s two dominant…
By Alfred Sasako This is the first of a feature-type article by Alfred Sasako on the Malaita Land Summit. A plethora of issues – largely land related ones came out in the open during the Malaita Land Summit held…
I write this Column sitting atop perhaps the highest hill in Auki on Malaita. The views are breathtaking any direction one looks. The site is the Hotel Malaita, one of the many hotels and motels that had sprang up in…
Constituency Development Fund and Shipping grant and buying votes IT is on the lips of many, the social media and media, the questioning of why there is now a flurry of activities by some members of Parliament purchasing Ships,…
TRANSPARENCY Solomon Islands commends the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force [RSIPF] for the work they do in following the money trail to tracking down the Member of Parliament for Savo/Russell who has now been charged for conversion of the shipping…
Introduction THE concept for the creation of a National Youth Orchestra is essentially the further development of an idea I have long considered as means of furthering the latent talents of the youth with music education and a wider perception…
COMMENTARY By Alfred Sasako THE extent of public funding to JQY Enterprise Ltd – a government preferred supplier outlet – angered many members of the public. Some no doubt have their own businesses and are expectant of equal treatment, by…
IT was good to see the voter registration exercise was completed without much drama – at least that’s how the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission would have loved to have it recorded. It was not an easy job. That much must…
