Offers of support from visiting diplomatic envoys
DEAR EDITOR, a letter of mine was published in your newspaper yesterday in which I had mentioned that my website – www.solomonislandsinfocus.com – which I had designed and introduce some four years ago to...
Chunk of health budget taken by diabetes
DEAR EDITOR, PM Rick Hou used the occasion of a speech he gave on Monday last week at the Heritage Park Hotel in Honiara to reiterate his concerns over the threat of Non Communicable...
Updating news on the Solomon Islands Rural Development Programme 2008-2020 for an external audience
DEAR EDITOR, In early 2008 I read that up to $31.8 million was to be injected into the Solomon Islands Rural Development Programme in a joint investment initiative by the World Bank, Australia, the...
The key to strengthening governance of Non-communicable Diseases in the Solomon Islands
DEAR EDITOR, Last week in Honiara, the Prime Minister, the Hon. Rick Hou, spoke at the round table meeting with the Ministry of Health and Medical Services and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The PM...
Solomon Islands: A Member of Parliament, Mathew Wale, MP, has claimed health shortages are...
DEAR EDITOR, Friday, 30 November 2018, Radio New Zealand broadcast a news bulletin via its Pacific Service citing a Solomon Islands MP, Mathew Wale, as saying the Solomon Islands government's failure to address drugs...
Solomon Islands Prime Minister reveals extremely high mortality rates attributed to NCDs
WHEN speaking at a high-level round table meeting on a NCD policy road map this week in Honiara, Prime Minister Rick Hou said there was no doubt NCDs pose the single biggest threat to...
Solomon Islands: A National Water and Climate Change Forum focusing on water for domestic...
THE Island Sun newspaper has reported that a National Water and Climate Change Forum is underway in Honiara with a view to focusing on the resilience of water for domestic use in the face...
Encouraging inroads to “second chance learning”
IN a week when several prominent figures in the Solomon Islands, including some in Parliament and the TSI have had a critical lens on reported government spending and payments to retiring Members of Parliament...
Local nutrition should be the staple food, NOT rice
Letters to the Editor
THANK you for allowing me an opportunity to respond to the article appearing in the Island Sun Newspaper of Thursday 29th November.
The article referred to a statement from the Deputy Prime...
Solomon Islands Prime Minister reveals extremely high mortality rates attributed to NCDs
WHEN speaking at a high-level round table meeting on a NCD policy road map this week in Honiara, Prime Minister Rick Hou said there was no doubt NCDs pose the single biggest threat to...