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Tuesday 18: Prosecute for Tepuka sewage problem
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding your recent report head ‘Still no sewage permit for complex’, the sewage treatment system of Tepuka/Tereora has been a problem right from the beginning and everybody knows that. But nobody wanted to take responsibility for it for a long time and the buck was passed from one government entity to another, this […]
Tuesday 18: Public deserves public service shake-up
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The letter by ‘Fed up’ in yesterday’s paper is a most intriguing piece of dysfunctional public mud slinging on me, while he tenderly avoids offending ‘cabinet ministers (and) the Demo Party Caucus…’ (his words). The ‘HOD wannabe’ called Fed up has totally missed every point of my explanation and I’m beginning to think […]
Monday 17: Dry as a desert
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are a public facility at Takamoa – by that, it means we provide services to the public, therefore it stands to reason we have to provide toilets for said people. However, for three days we have been without water, which we believe is a result of the work being carried out by […]
Monday 17: Dreadful advice
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Minister Ngamau Munokoa’s speech at the under 21 netball opening ceremony was awful. Her grammar and tenses were so badly arranged that one could barely understand what she was saying. Worst of all she turned on Cook Islanders who were sharing a proud moment of realising the dream of hosting the netball games. […]
Monday 17: It's a fib, I didn't resign
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Either there is an error in information which I doubt or the office of the Deputy Prime Minister is telling fibs. In a press statement from the DPM’s office it said I have resigned from the Pacific Mini Games Board. I have not and nor have I been asked to. But Minister Ngamau […]
Monday 17: Act like a rangatira!
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, What is customary lore and what are the duties of a leader under those customary lores? In principle do we elect under a democratic policy or do we elect those who have been groomed by the older generation guaranteed to walk beside the people and listen to their needs and have a willingness […]
Monday 17: HoMs fiasco raises discontent, distrust
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I make reference to the letter in Saturday’s publication titled ‘PSC answers criticism’. In my view the PSC Commissioner Navy Epati has failed miserably to address the growing public outcry in regards to the recent appointment of some HOMs, in particular, the three who were appointed to Justice, Agriculture and Culture. Therefore, in […]
Monday 17: 'Soft touch' buys a sob story
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, What on earth are our leaders doing? Since when do our country’s leaders cater to the demands of rapists and murderers! I think a response from Mark Short justifying his actions would be appropriate now. How can he condone the actions of the prisoners who escaped after they put the island on high […]
Monday 17: Govt cruel, inhumane to old HoMs
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Now we all know what this Demo government had in mind when they brought in the ‘new’ Public Service Act. And it is not very nice at all. Six Cook Islanders – Terry Hagan, Nga Mataio, Russell Thomas, Tamarii Pierre, Makiuti Tongia and John Herrmann – have now been consigned to the scrap […]
Saturday 15: TV coverage a team effort
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thank you for your kind comments (William Framhein). Just to clarify, we are currently showing two games a day on CITV with the permission of IFNA. The 5.30pm game is shot with one camera (Pete or Matt) and has one commentator (Mona). The 9.30pm game has a team of eight people: three camera […]
Saturday 15: Angels' touch
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With surprise I read about the outbreak of prisoners because of bad facilities and bad treatment. That is not the Polynesian Rarotongan way to deal with humans. There is a prison specialist on the island with 40 years of experience, Mr Gordon Sawtell, and I am sure he will be happy to help. […]
Saturday 15: PSC answers criticism
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, After reading some of the concerns voiced in the media over the appointment process for Heads of Departments and Island Secretaries, it is very important that this is clarified as a matter of public interest There were a total of 198 applications, 60 for the secretaries and 138 for HODs. These applications were […]
Saturday 15: Leading by example – yeah right
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The admission by the Finsec (CINews August 14) that he had applied direct to his uncle the Minister of Finance for a bonus of the full amount has proved beyond any doubt the self interest and conniving that is going on with the minister and his pet appointees. If the Finsec had any […]
Saturday 15: Endless stuff-ups speak
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We read with disgust that Sholan Ivaiti is trying to get a bonus pay. What for? He is already highly paid for a start, and most of the things he has done since he started working have been a total failure. Like most of the current HoMs, his appointment was clearly political. We […]
Friday 14: Top job!
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write to you on behalf of the team at Matariki FM to ask if you would publish our gratitude of the great TV presentation that Jeanne Matenga, Moana Vaevae and others are doing of the WYNC as seen on Cook Islands Television. Jeanne is the sole CITV camera person and Moana the […]
Friday 14: It's fallacious, fraudulent
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The shenanigans of the recently appointment of the HOMs are fallacious and, we believe, fraudulent. The whole of cabinet ought to be audited and charged if this can be proven to be fraud because what they did was not good governance and transparency as per their political party manifesto. Their selections were purely […]
Friday 14: Finsec defends bonus
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to your article of Thursday August 13 headed ‘Finsec wants performance bonus’, I wish to respond. Firstly, since taking up this role, the PSC Commissioner Mr Navy Epati has never done a formal performance appraisal for me. Given this was not done for the last two years, I took the initiative […]
Friday 14: Buck stops with the PSC
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The letter of complaint received by the Audit Office from the Cook Islands Workers Association (CIWA) in relation to the recent HOM appointments by cabinet speaks volumes of what appears to be a gross failure of the Public Service Commissioner Navy Epati to ensure that the HOM selection process and criteria is fair […]
Thursday 13: DPM defends his sons
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Of the recent public comments that have been made recently by a former Cabinet minister and others, what disappoints me most is the insinuation that one of my sons is wrongly benefiting from my health portfolio. Please allow me to clarify this matter once and for all. My eldest son Terepai Jnr is […]
Thursday 13: Dear Editor,
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Cook Islands citizens choose and elect officials during local and central government elections, which is our democratic right. It is hoped that the best person gets elected to govern with good governance, accountability, responsibility and total transparency in decision making in any and all fiscal expenditures. Sometimes we get it right, and the elected official […]
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