Solomon Business Blog provides key news and deep insights on business, law, and politics in the Solomon Islands.
About the news on this blog
News re-published on this blog is often summarised or paraphrased for readability. The purpose of re-publishing the summarised or paraphrased news on this blog is to provide context for the accompanying commentary.
The news re-published on this blog are often, effectively, official press releases from the Government and various Government Ministries and departments, foreign states, foreign and local non-governmental organisations, and foreign and local civil society organisations. This includes actual official press releases but also includes reporting of public relations events. Obviously, such news tends to promote its own agenda. Consequently, the news should be understood in that context – as information propagated by various parties who may have a particular agenda in having its story published as news for the general public.
The news, when it is re-published in this blog, should therefore not be accepted at face value and should not be relied on as factual information. Instead, such news should be seen as information that can indicate certain attitudes, agendas, or policies of the various parties who do have an interest in that particular news being published. The purpose of this blog is thus to provide insight into what the news may imply for business, law, and politics in Solomon Islands.
In short, what is important is not what the news is, but why it is news in the first place.
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