Dear Editor, it has been said before, but bears saying again.

The “long line of motorcycles” of a Monday morning at the police compound will be an infrequent occurrence when our politicians change the law so that drink driver’s vehicles are auctioned off.

Not much chance of that in an election year, our Parliamentarians are just as happy with a drunk vote as a sober vote.

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‘Confused’

I am extremely confused by the shock and fear, regarding the impending changes to the Punanga Nui Market. There was a market meeting in 2019, (before Covid-19), Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) was there, and circulated a picture of the new proposed market, as part of the town plan. Then, it has been mentioned at several market meetings over the past two years, telling us what was going to happen, and how it would look. Now it’s starting to happen, everyone is shocked, saying there’s no communication from the market management, the same people are never at the market meetings, and haven’t been in the market for two years. I know changing from the old way of doing things is hard, but I don’t see anyone carving with stone, no they use steel chisels or grinders. Change is not always bad.

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Correction

Cook Islands News incorrectly named court registrar Alisha Rangi as a Justice of the Peace in the Saturday, May 7, 2022 edition. Alisha Rangi is not a Justice of the Peace, but was the court registrar on Thursday, May 5 at the Criminal Court. Justice of the Peace at the Criminal Court on the day was Nadine Newnham. 

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ONLINE COMMENTS

Yala honoured for services to community

Wow....Congratulations to an amazing well deserved woman.

Sylvana Taoro-Puia

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Pilot shortage means no flights from Christchurch

We've just returned from your beautiful paradise. We live in the South Island and had to overnight in Auckland on the way home ($), and then the connecting flight took eight hours to get us home. Flights direct into ChCh would be a game changer.

Rachel Dixie

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A direct flight from Christchurch would be fabulous. It would save a lot of time and money. We could spend longer in the Cook Islands and have a bit more to spend there too.

Michelle Gray Bloomfield