Letters for Monday October 25, 2021

Dear Editor,

‘Matariki Observer’ sounds like another opposition low-life flunky getting paid to write drivel (letters to the editor) in the Cook Islands News. 

You should focus on the amazing stuff your opposition leader does for the people ... Mmm that’s right? There’s nothing to write about? 

The PM is running the country and keeping our people safe. The PM treats every Cook Islander as equals, including Cook Islanders living in the northern islands! 

The PM keeps a sharp eye on all big infrastructural projects in the northern islands. Up north, the PM is able to quickly resolve issues that pop up, something that Zoom or Messenger fails to do. 

Leadership requires strength and endurance to reassure the people that everything is going to be okay. The PM is all about leadership. Leadership is something the opposition could learn from the PM. 

The PM is happy to fly north on the Bandit, but Air Raro fuels up the jet instead (same price). 

The PM’s job is not to be a saint, the PM’s job is to lead the country, and as far as I am concerned, the PM is doing a marvellous job. 

Keep up the great leadership work PM, don’t let the vareae no-hopers get you down. 

Your people support you and thank you for your leadership and your messages of encouragement from Mangaia all the way to Penrhyn.

Get Real

(Name and address supplied)

Practice what you preach

I don’t know who writes PM Mark Brown’s column each fortnight, but they may have forgotten that the words probably need to fit the same. The sentence at the end “May the fruits of the Gospel continue to grow and enlighten our people in the name of Our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ” sounded like something pulled from a Franciscan monk, not the person whose name sat at the bottom of the piece.

The thing about fruit is when it goes bad, it stinks and is rotten, no good to anyone. If Mr Brown wants to talk about fruits of the Gospel, one would expect his call for our nation to grow these fruits is matched by his own lifestyle.

Hey no one’s perfect, I get it but, imperfect people don’t all get up in the news and talk like they are or call a nation to what was the word they used, oh yes, enlightenment. To whoever writes this for him, here’s some advice. Words written by ghostwriters don’t cut the mustard when the mustard is clearly off.

A sinner not a saint

(Name and address supplied)