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JAMES BATLEY* One of the noticeable features of Australia’s response to the Solomon Islands government’s request for security assistance on 25 November was Scott Morrison’s instinctive desire to broaden the response to a regional level. Solomon Islands Prime...

A MALAITA woman has called on Solomon Islanders to uphold peace and unity for the good of all as the country enters the festive season and another year. Ender Rence was speaking during a citizen-led...

By Derek Mane ON the morning of July 7, 1978, Solomon Islanders in various locations throughout the country lower the Union Jack and raised the Solomon Islands flag. A birth of a new nation, 40...

By Transform Aqorau The riots in Honiara yesterday, disturbing the city’s normally quiet atmosphere, were unexpected but not surprising. Someone made reference to a possible protest that would coincide with the convening of parliament, but...

By EDDIE OSIFELO A Prime Minister has a power to prohibit Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) from broadcasting or televising any matter, or matter of any class or character unless it is based on national...

WHILST Transparency Solomon Islands supports gender balance in parliament and in public sphere, Solomon Islands continues to suffer from the impact of irresponsible, non-transparent and unaccountable national leadership.  Twenty years on after the ethnic tension...

PRIMO AMUSAEA - Chairman, Kolobisi Tailings Dam Association DICK DOUGLAS – Chairman, Gold Ridge Communities Landowners Association Sam Maneka - Chairmann Metapono Downstream Association GOLD Ridge communities strongly refuted and condemned in the strongest possible terms lies...

Is it too late to modernize our capital city? PETER FORAU Honiara IT is not an exaggeration to say that the state of debilitation facing Honiara reflects the state of poor governance at the HCC.  It will be...

BY JENNIFER KUSAPA Loggers moving into an already struggling shipping industry spells trouble, warns shipping Industry leader, Charles Welchman Rubaha. Mr Rubaha is reinforcing Opposition Leader Matthew Wale’s call for government to act on this invasion...

AN OBSERVER THE row between the national government and the Malaita Provincial Government (MPG) has degenerated to a level that is politically unhealthy and could have an adverse impact on infrastructure developments on Malaita. There is...