DEAR EDITOR, Solomon Islands ousted Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, revealed this week during a Motion of No Confidence moved against him in Parliament that the 50 Members of Parliament (MPs) together received more than half a billion dollars a year.…
THE title to this piece is taken from the words of the Solomon Islands national anthem and since the country gained its independence in 1978, one might question whether the Solomon Islands has truly witnessed joy, peace, progress and prosperity.…
BY ALFRED SASAKO MY one day trip to Rennell last week was never intended to investigate logging and mining operations on the island. But with a bit of time on my hand, it was pretty hard to pass up…
CORRUPTION is a crime, right? It’s punishable by law, right? So are stealing, assault, robbery, murder, keeping a gun or driving a car without a licence, and other criminal actions you can think of. But they don’t each have a…
By Alfred Sasako. CAN you imagine growing rice in seawater? Many of us will find it hard to believe it but it’s true. After years of research, Chinese scientists have put rice grown in seawater on the nation’s tables,…
ON October 13, 1917, exactly 100 years ago today, the World or at least many parts in Portugal experienced what is now known as the Miracle of the Dancing Sun. A few newspapers in Portugal at that time covered the…
THE Acting general secretary for the Solomon Islands National Council of Women and vice president of People with Disabilities Solomon Islands Casper Fa’asala announced last week that there are more than 60,000 people in the Solomon Islands suffering from disabilities.…
LAST week was, from memory my fourth visit to Guangdong Province on the eastern coastline of China. I remember how the place looked in 1985 when as a journalist working in Papua New Guinea then, I was selected to be…
THE Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, the Hon Manasseh Sogavare, last week made a call to the United States to reconsider its position on the Paris climate agreement and join the global fight against climate change. The Prime Minister…
Stop open defaecation and purchase cheaper toilet today BY PRIESTLEY HABRU WHEN you fail to notice blue flies swarming your uncovered food after feasting from human wastes disposed carelessly in nearby bushes or beaches; then you know very well…
