Looking back through some old stash, I found copies my wife had made of “The Last Voices from Heaven”, a documentary produced for the National Geographic Channel by Anthony Copping. I am especially proud of my copy because it was given to me by Pascal Oritaemae whom I had met…
Tag: Solomon Islands
A national conversation, the road to an ICT Policy
Thanks to the Head of the Policy Evaluation Unit at the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr. Ashley Wickham, I was invited to the ICT stakeholder’s meeting to discuss the draft paper prepared by Professor Martin Hadlow of the University of Queensland in collaboration with Dr. Gordon Nanau of the Solomon Islands…
Discover the Susan Boyle in you
I could forgive you if you haven’t the faintest idea on who Susan Boyle is. Oh well, if Susan Boyle had not stepped onto the stage to audition for Simon Cowell’s TV reality show X-Factor, she may very well be sitting at home right now with her cat in Blackburn,…
UN DPKO launches pilot program for NCE candidates
It is now official; NCE candidates currently on the UN roster have begun to receive offers from the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping & Operations for deployment into field missions. In what is described as a pilot program undertaken by the DPKO, the UN will clear the roster by offering…
Uni failure is reflection of a failed system
Two weeks ago the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development issued a strongly worded news item that seemingly blamed culture shock, a laxity in attitude and aptitude, money and excessive socialisation as the leading causes of the high failure rate of Solomon Islanders studying at the University of the…
Solomon Islands, the final frontier
No doubt anyone who passionately loves their country will believe it is the best place in the world. But I suppose the Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau got it right when they said Solomon Islands was the “Islands lost in time”. This is the final frontier, one of the last places…