DEAR Editor, I just want to make a few comments in response to Mr. Frank Short’s brief article in the Island Sun Issue, Monday 19th November, about the UNDP-funded Land Summit that was held in Auki last week, 13th-15th November.…
Dear Editor THIS article is to clarify Alpha Meta or brown rice which the Ministry of Health describe as medicine that kills people. In actual fact our products are not medicine it just a health product not to cure sickness…
LAST week in a letter to Solomon Islands media and also posted on Linkedin I reported on the UDP sponsored three day Land Conference held in Malaita Province. I mentioned the young people attending the Summit had called for their…
DEAR EDITOR, partnership according to Thesaurus English is companionship, relationship and alliance. For the purpose of my presentation, I will pick on the first two words; companionship or relationship. Companionship or relationship is the company of friends and the relationship…
DEAR EDITOR, as long ago as 1997 when I first arrived in the Solomon Islands, I was concerned about the job prospects of the unemployed young people and since those early years I have become increasingly concerned about the growing…
DEAR EDITOR, the Solomon Forest Association (SFA) has issued a notice today, Thursday, 15th November 2018, calling on the Solomon Islands Government to help stop illegal logging activities occurring in the country. The notice follows a recent similar kind of…
DEAR EDITOR, two separate news reports published this week in the Island Sun newspaper, both related to local health issues, were praiseworthy and justify comment. The first report made reference to the Solomon Islands PNG Association having generously handed over…
DEAR EDITOR, quoting Radio New Zealand – November 14, 2018, “Papua New Guinea civil society groups have called on China to introduce regulation on illegal wood imports from the country. “A letter signed by PNG groups including the Center for…
DEAR EDITOR, for the past couple of months your readers will have become familiar with the several letters I have written trying to formulate an idea for the creation of a local National Youth Orchestra to absorb the skills and…
DEAR EDITOR, our readers will know of the concern I have recently expressed through your columns of the likely suspension of the help rendered through my partner charity in New Zealand, ‘Take My Hands,’ (TMH) if the second payment of…
