DEAR EDITOR, I write with regards to the abovementioned issue. The White River Market has been in operation for the past 5 odd years and during those years it has grown significantly. With its growth came the accumulation of rubbish.…
DEAR EDITOR, I find it quite disturbing in the news this week two reported incidents of illegal firearms being moved around the country. The first news involved the use of firearms to rob a logging camp in the Shortland Island…
DEAR EDITOR, “A medical trial in Solomon Islands has found it’s possible to safely treat large populations for trachoma and scabies simultaneously. “Australian and Solomon Islands researchers medicated more than 26,000 people in Choiseul Province. “The entire population was given…
‘THE Office of the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) strongly warns intending candidates and voters to refrain from buying and selling voter ID cards. In a statement yesterday, Chief Electoral Officer Moses Saitala said there are reports of intending candidates…
DEAR EDITOR, in the Western Pacific Region, the Solomon Islands is rated as having low coverage of essential services in the health sector and currently major challenges remain in overall service capacity and in infectious disease and in combatting non-communicable…
DEAR EDITOR, I have read that local fund raising is still continuing to help get 13 –year old Andy Toloubua, who is said to be suffering from a heart condition needing surgery in Australia. I thank all those who have…
DEAR EDITOR, according to what Prime Minister Rick Hou told participants at the 10th Australia Solomon Islands Business Forum in Brisbane recently, Solomon Islands Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to drop next year from 3.5 percent this year to…
DEAR EDITOR, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an Asia regional development organization dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. A late evening news bulletin from Radio New Zealand, last night, Thursday, heralded some good news and I…
DEAR EDITOR, we read in the local newspapers last week the story told by journalists who had returned to Honiara after making a visit to Luaniua in the Ontong Java region of the remote Malaita Outer Islands (MOI). The story…
DEAR EDITOR, it was reported in the local newspapers on Monday that a team of Honiara based photographers spent the weekend taking photos in order to help raise funds needed to send young Andy Tolobau overseas for medical treatment of…
