DEAR EDITOR, Ms Ruth Liloqula, the chair of Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) in recent days told the SIBC and Radio New Zealand International that allegedly local MPs are using foreign aid and development projects to divert public attention away from…
DEAR EDITOR, when Solomon Islands Finance Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, handed down this year’s $4.068 billion budget in parliament last week he said the government expected to collect more money during 2018 with 3.5 billion of the total budget being sourced…
DEAR EDITOR, a 20 ft container with 3000 prs of eye glasses from Lions Clubs in New Zealand and furniture, mobility aids, clothing & footwear has arrived in Honiara for distribution to local NGO’s including the SIDT, The Association of…
DEAR EDITOR, this is what has transpired over the weeks with our 4billion dollar budget. It baffles me a lot how politicians here in the Solomons do their daily business and expects the public to just swallow the outcome of…
DEAR EDITOR, I have been waiting patiently for my loan for almost two months now. SIPEU keep on saying that next week, next week! I am left confused. Please credit committee show some commitments to the people whom you serve.…
DEAR EDITOR, as a student and a concerned citizen of the Solomon Islands, I urge all government sectors and citizens to stop practising wantok system in the country. This is due to the fact that wantok system produces corruption; and…
DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the news carried in the Island Sun issue on March 29, 2018 which said that three statesmen were contacted. My view made to the enquiry was: in 2017 the national parliament passed an affirmative resolution…
DEAR EDITOR, quoting Radio New Zealand International – 2018 “Increasing the participation of Pacific women in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme is one of the recommendations in a new report by the World Bank. “The report, launched in Canberra, outlined a…
DEAR EDITOR, I can report that the SFA has agreed, today, to provide the money needed to send 13 year old Myrin Siarobo from Malaita to Fiji to undergo a CT scan and for an investigation of her medical condition…
DEAR EDITOR, it has come to my notice that there exists an institution in Taiwan, namely “Global Medical Instruments Support & Service Programme”, which collects used but still good medical instruments/devices from institutions or hospitals in Taiwan, and donates them…
