Letters to the Editor
Students hit with law, ministers untouched
Tuesday 28 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
“Tea Totaller’s” letter in Saturday’s CI News, raised several valid issues of concern, particularly the motorcycle helmet controversy involving our school children.
Fine alternative and bicycle helmets could be solution
Tuesday 28 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
There has been considerable debate in the media recently about the helmet law for motorcyclists – there is no doubt that this law was dreamed up by the type of committee that was supposed to design a horse and came up with a camel.
Country's laws work in strange ways...
Monday 27 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Excuse me Trevor Pitt, but in your letter “ Young not exempt from the law,” you forgot to mention anything about politicians being exempt from the law.
Nothing to complain about
Monday 27 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Back in the late 1970s I was working for Union CITCO Travel with Tekeu Framhein, Mahana Teotahi, Mere Taruia, Joy Cowan and sometimes with Sonya Kamana in accommodating tourists.
Exercise awareness good to see
Friday 24 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It was good to see people using Constitution Park for walking and raising awareness of the need for fitness during the for men’s health campaign that featured in CINews recently.
Spare a thought for West Papua situation
Thursday 23 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
As a keen observer from afar, the political landscape in the region fascinates me.
NES on the job with monitoring resort extension
Thursday 23 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
This is to inform the public that the National Environment Service (NES) is closely monitoring the development at Club Raro.
Palace in no danger from home for aged
Thursday 23 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It would have saved the letter writer “Traditionalist”, time and peace of mind had he/she contacted me at Internal Affairs on 29370 or even Sam Napa Jnr on 57695 to find out that the proposed aged care facility is not going to be built where the old Pa Ariki Palace is.
Trouble looms in paradise
Tuesday 21 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I wish to comment on Stephen Lyon’s letter in CINews on Friday November 17.
'Stupid' helmet law has proved unenforceable
Friday 17 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The public debate that took place when our Fearless Leaders in parliament indicated that they would try, a second time, to introduce legislation in respect of the wearing of crash helmets was a profound debate.
Curb on tourism wrong solution
Friday 17 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
There has been much in the news since Member of Parliament, Selina Napa said we need to restrict the growth of tourism for the sake of our environment.
Continuity plan vital for survival
Thursday 16 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
In the wake of the Bluesky fire at Aroa, occasional columnist “Unionist” turns his attention to the need for all businesses to have a continuity plan.
Clinic issues aired
Wednesday 15 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Esther Honey acknowledges the contributions made by Jo Taylor Kupu during her tenure as Practice Manager at the EHF clinic.
Please stop picking on young riders
Tuesday 14 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The police blitz on our well-behaved students riding their motorcycles to school in the morning is absolutely criminal.
Some thoughts on controlling tourism
Tuesday 14 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Some time ago I sent a letter to the Cook Islands Tourism Corporation, telling them that I had raised questions about the island’s water and sanitation systems at the Muri Te Mato Vai meeting.
New schools are not up to scratch
Monday 13 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Driving around the two new schools that are being built on the island, you have to ask who designed them and who in the Cook Islands agreed to them.
Old Pa Ariki palace ripe for restoration
Monday 13 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A few weeks ago there was a news clip on TV showing the acting secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs extolling the virtues of a gift of land earmarked for an old people’s home on Rarotonga.
Rasmussen hits back at 'action man'
Monday 13 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
George Maggie still does not know the difference between meaningful statements and what I shall politely call “rubbish”.
Maggie hits back at CINews columnist
Thursday 9 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Obviously Wilkie Rasmussen has nothing better to do than to jump on the bandwagon of other people’s comments and try to make out he is an authority on particular issues.
Nothing to laugh about
Wednesday 8 November 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
While some will see the humour in the same Chinese construction company that built the falling down courthouse, police station and sports centre getting the job of patching up the grossly inferior work, no one at government seems to want to say who is paying for the patch-up.
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