EDITORIAL- Job offers that cannot be turned down
ANOTHER group of Solomon Islanders left yesterday to work in Australia.
They are the latest to travel under the Australian Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP).
Again, public reaction to this latest travel was mixed.
While the majority are...
MPs please curb yours first
AS talks of the budget is now before the Public Accounts Committee, it is important that we as citizens of this country must take an avid interest to read and listen to what will...
People power for health
Anything is possible if we set our mind to it.
RECENTLY, within a week, a father’s plea had been answered when he appealed for assistance from the public to send his daughter overseas for medical...
EDITORIAL- When will this stop?
KUKUM Highway went under the water again yesterday.
This came after the heavy downpour on Tuesday night. Honiara woke up to a road that virtually disappeared under the water.
This is not the first time the...
We can’t even handle rain
HONIARA was at a standstill yesterday after a few hours of down pour. One hates to imagine what a week of rain would cause.
Parliament was not able to progress in yesterday’s sitting, schools were...
EDITORIAL- People, not MPs, should decide on extending life of parliament
SO the Sogavare Government intends to extend the life of parliament from four to five years.
Its intention was revealed in a secret cabinet paper that was leaked to the public.
The leaked document confirmed cabinet...
EDITORIAL- Siapu must serve the people, not cronies
COUNCILLOR Eddie Siapu is our new city mayor.
He was elected yesterday following the recent ousting of Wilson Mamae, whose leadership was tainted with numerous allegations of mismanagement.
Fourteen councilors threw their support behind Siapu against...
EDITORIAL- Time to challenge the CDF!
MALAITA Premier Daniel Suidani is seeking a judicial review of the constitutionality of the controversial Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
He expressed his Government’s intention, Monday.
Suidani said the national constitution provides for three arms of the...
Sport industry must be recognised
EARNING salaries through sports is probably a long way away from us in the Solomon Islands yet.
Overseas however, men and women involved in professional sports can earn a great deal of money at the...
EDITORIAL- You can run, but you cannot hide
POLICE are now going after a man they wanted to speak to in relation to the killing of a Chinese woman last week at her Point Cruz shop in Honiara.
The man is reportedly evading...