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Another update from Bp Terry.

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Dear Friends,
I write simply a short update on the Solomons situation. I have returned to Auki after four days in Honiara. Auki is returning to normal, with most of the Chinese stores re-opened and the town full of people. Still shipping between Auki and Honiara is somewhat limited, as police try [...]

More from Bp Terry.

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Dear Friends,

Just a few notes from Honiara on a Monday morning.

(1) It is now half past ten and there hasn’t been a moment since I woke up that there have not been helicopters circling overhead, some of them quite low.  I suppose this is part of the RAMSI big-stick approach.  The Parliament [...]

Bishop Terry gave me permission to post this here. Despite Bp Terry’s criticism of RAMSI, I don’t think he is suggesting they pull out. He wants them to engage a bit more intelligently with the local population.

Dear Friends,

I do not have much to report, but a few reflections and bits of news on [...]

Some may be interested in this from a friend in Auki (which is the capitol of Malaita, the second biggest island to Guadalcanal where Honiara is)
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Dear Friends,

As feared, we had a disturbance in Auki this evening but it has turned out well, in so far as such things can turn out. The police worked [...]

Bp Terry Brown has emailed a few of his conference papers around and I thought I’d post them here for Bogosity readers to check out.

The first two are from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia Theological Hui

Keynote 1

Keynote 2

RAMSI and Beyond

We had a short visit from Bp Terry last night and talked a little about The Solomon Islands. I was poking around looking for some books he recommended and came accross this Dateline transcript which gives a good overview of the current situation – the government corruption and land ownership issues that are still [...]

Was just reading this article on the ABC: Ona calls for Aust police to leave Bougainville . Bougainville is pretty close to the Solomon Islands so I thought I’d do a bit of reading and fill in some gaps in my knowledge.

According to New Internationalist Issue 311 – The rebel peace

the conflict became violent [...]