Source: ROSS GIBLIN/STUFFSolomon Islander Glorious Oxenham has been awarded a QSM, in New Zealand’s New Year Honours, for services to Melanesian culture. Known as Glo, she has been promoting Solomon Islands and Melanesian culture, language and values for more than 25 years. Glo hopes recent publicity on the ongoing civil unrest in the Solomon Islands does not give New Zealanders a false impression of her homeland. The Lower Hutt resident received a Queen’s Service Medal in the New Year Honours for services to the Melanesian community in New Zealand. A three times president of the Wellington Solomon Islands Community Group, she also supports students studying in Wellington.

Source: Stuff December 31, 2021 00:20 UTC