DEAR EDITOR, this is a common sentiment often advertised during election period that advocate the roles of the legislative elected members of parliament.

The major roles and obligation of MPs voted into parliament is to make appropriated legislatives that help address common issues that affect the lives of the people in the nation.

They represent the voice of the people and must be proactive and voiceful in parliament during debating, scrutinizing and making changes within our legislatives.

The nation currently need to change some of the old colonial laws that still exit in the productive resources government line ministries such as the forestry, fisheries, agriculture, lands and mining that are already expired, non-relevant and may not helpful towards the economic resources beneficiaries of this nation.

And so the nation is in a critical need for proactive and voiceful MPs to make changes towards productive regulations and legislatives especially in our resources sectors that safeguard our natural resources from unsustainable and over exploitation usages by the acutely incoming of the foreigners that has been experience today

Solomon Islands is 40 years old after gaining independent in 1978 a matured age nation that should now has its owned well designed and strong productive legislatives in its resources sectors that protect its natural resources for its people future benefits and prosperity.

While the foreigners who have nothing at their homelands have come and hugely benefit themselves harvesting our natural resources at the unsustainable and destructive manner mostly within the forestry and fisheries sectors with little or none benefits at all under the current national legislatives that govern our resources sector without any changes done by our MPs does not make sense and is so very abusive towards the rights of the people from gaining maximum benefits out of their resources.

It only reflects poorly on the elected legislative MPs who form government that fail desperately to perform their roles and obligation mandated by the voters and citizens of this nation.

The most MPs elected into parliament do not have great concern for the welfare of the nation but are there for their own hidden agenda. They become voiceless, visionless, non-knowledgeable and proactive when debating important legislatives that essential towards the future prosperity of the nation.

If this nation continues with such a trench of leadership, our natural resources will be depleting at the fast rate with little or non-benefits by the locals in many years to come. This is a very sad situation for this beloved nation Solomon Islands.

The 2019 national election is coming nearer and the nation is in great need for change in legislative leadership that has new height of visionary level that has political will venturing into manipulating the legislatives that help towards benefiting the nation.

Those proposed MPs who wish to contest 2019 national election must prepare to face the challenges in leaderships to acquire changes needed by the people.

The nation no longer want to entertain voiceless, visionless non-knowledgeable and sleeping MPs in the parliament house who only wish to benefit from RCDF and other government funds to build their own wealth at the expenses of the poor voters of this nation.

This nation needs very constructive MPs who should have vision towards manipulating the usages of our abundance natural resources to benefit the nation or else we will be continuing slaving in our own land under the leadership that has no visions for the nation in many years to come.

The establishment of strong and vibrant legislative that govern the nation resources is important for the future prosperity of our children. And so electing the right leaders is the way forwards for this nation.

Your vote is your voice in parliament that enable your future prosperity.

JACOB OFASIA

Talise Market

DEAR EDITOR, to add to the letter of mine you published in your newspaper last week on the same subject, I should like to mention that in recent days the Fiji Police seized more cocaine with an estimated value of about $US15 million from an island in the Lau group.

It was reported in the Fiji Times that the Fijian Customs Service, acting on a tip-off, found 30 blocks of cocaine with a combined weight of 40 kilograms.

This latest seizure come after a week when Fiji authorities had also seized $US15 million worth of cocaine and ecstacy from a yacht at Denarau, along with guns, cash and ammunition.

Yours sincerely

FRANK SHORT

DEAR EDITOR, I was very pleased to read in the Island Sun newspaper today, Wednesday, that the Guadalcanal and Canadian governments have decided to extend their employment mobility opportunities to the people of Makira-Ulawa province.

CITREC’s Chairman, Mr Ashwant Dwivedi, was quoted in the newspaper as saying, “I can confirm that apart from tourism and agriculture labour opportunities, Makira-Ulawa province has the opportunity to be part of the food processing sector.”

Mr Dwivedi also spoke about the employment opportunities encouraging inclusive participation for both women and men.

I once wrote likening the work of the Guadalcanal Premier’s in linking up with CITREC and the Canadian Government has having “pulled rabbits out of a hat” and it seems the magic is ongoing with Premier Siapu now becoming skilled in the art.

To Mr Dwivedi and the Canadian Government I say thank you for the work opportunities you are continuing to give to the people of the Solomon Islands.

Yours sincerely

FRANK SHORT

DEAR EDITOR, Last week I wrote to your newspaper expressing my appreciation of the fact that a fresh start seems to have been made in making and fitting prosthetic limbs to the long waiting list of ex-NRH patients that previously had undergone amputations at the hospital as a consequence of suffering from advanced diabetes or from injuries.

I thought I would share with you the heartwarming story I came across in the international press about an 8 year old Syrian child who had been born without legs.

Maya, the little girl, had been seen crying in a camp for displaced persons in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province trying to walk around on a contraption her father had made from tuna fish cans, plastic tubing and fabric.

Her story was highlighted on social media and caught the attention of a Turkish prosthetics specialist who arranged, last week, for the child to be fitted with two prosthetic legs at a humanitarian clinic in Istabul.

The homemade prosthetics had allowed her to move about more easily, and helped her learn how to balance, shortening a two-week process to a single day when she was fitted with her new legs.

I really do hope the fresh efforts to make and custom fit prosthetic limbs to the 400 or so awaiting them in the Solomon Islands will gather pace and allow them, like Maya, overcome their walking disabilities very soon.

Yours sincerely

FRANK SHORT