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Not copper/solar promises TRANSPARENCY Solomon Islands (TSI) in its continuous advocacy focused at fighting corruption and promoting transparency, accountability and good governance, call on and remind candidates intending to contest the up-coming by-election for South...

TARCISIUS KABUTAULAKA THE tumultuous dispute over the selection of the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), which led to Micronesian countries deciding to withdraw from the premier regional organisation, provides an opportunity to...

TRANSPARENCY Solomon Islands (TSI) in its recent visit to South Choiseul was approached by community members of Posarae, Lituni and Loloko village who shared their concerns about logging activities happening within their various communities...

BALEOIASI Tribe One Discovery in Malaita is proposing to conduct a land recording exercise in Honiara this year. Paramount Chief Sade Belo Gwalili said the exercise is important for all those that claimed the land...

VIEWPOINT FRANK S.V BILAUPAINE SINCE Solomon Islands switched diplomatic relations from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) to People’s Republic of China (PRC) in September 2019, there are numerous concerns echoed still by fellow Solomon Islanders about the issue...

In its most recent face to face Community Awareness Outreach program to Choiseul Province covering South Choiseul Constituency, Moli and Taro in the North West Constituency, two of the urgent issue raised by those...

A response to Bodo Dettke’s media claims BY WALTER FOLOTALU Former politician Noni (Kikiri or Kobu) farmer AS a local noni farmer from the province (Malaita), I wish to challenge MP Bodo Dettke’s statement over the SIBC recently,...

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it. (Prov. 22:6 NIV) CHILDREN are very important members of the family. The responsibility of...

The Paradox of Fiji’s Race Politics   FIJI’s contemporary politics has always been laced with racial overtones, even in the midst of the current Fiji First Party-led government’s attempts to erase race from Fijians’ political consciousness. The...

By Alfred Sasako This is the first of a feature-type article by Alfred Sasako on the Malaita Land Summit.   A plethora of issues – largely land related ones came out in the open during the Malaita...