The National Business CORRUPTION and maladministration has held back both the country’s public and private sectors stifling economic development, a researcher says. Visiting economics lecturer from Australia National University, Andrew Mako, says there is a “toxic mix of bad governance” and the “Melanesian” way of doing things around allocation of resources, especially through the “big…
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Facing adversity with positivity
March 21, 2023 BY Edwina Williams Peaceful place: Anne Tudor regularly walks the Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail with her service dog, ANNE Tudor was still a teenager when her 24-year-old brother was killed in a car accident.Life already “felt serious,” and subsequently her caring, social justice-centred attitude emerged.Moving from Gordon to Rabaul in…
The Cost of the “Wantok System”
The wantok system has often been described as a ‘safety net’ and for a country like the Solomon Islands where there are no social service schemes, this may be true. To those who do not know, the wantok system stems from the word ‘one talk’, which could be loosely defined as those speaking the same…