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How many others are doing it?

The official website of Solomon Islands Postal Corporation (SIPC) – the nation’s smallest State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) – says it all. It shows its board may have outlived its legal mandate. One wonders how many other SOEs are in a similar…

Quest for solidarity in civil society

CIVIL society characterises themselves as representing the critical mass. However, over the past weeks civil society organisation and networks in Solomon Islands have been tested to its core when a bipartisan trip to Indonesia rocked its fundamental principles. The work…

PEC’s big fat lies to tax payers

A Solomon Islander who earns a salary of $2,944.38 a fortnight [$82,775/year], is taxed $622.87 [PAYE], NPF contribution of $147.24 and basic rate of $29.45. His net pay for the fortnight is $2,145.32. Out of $2,145.32, he/she will have to…

Thank you Solomon Islands, sorry but why?

DEAR EDITOR, we, West Papua civil society, consisting of people from Non-Government Organisations, youth, students, women, and indigenous peoples, welcome the government and civil society delegates from the Solomon Islands to our country, West Papua. We sincerely apologise that because…