Letters to the Editor
Thanks for the great time, but...
Monday 10 July 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I have just returned from a most wonderful and relaxing holiday in Rarotonga.
Modern day slavery alive in Cooks
Thursday 6 July 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 was introduced into the UK in March 2015, in response to heightened concern around slavery, human trafficking and forced labour in the UK.
To “Unionist”
Wednesday 5 July 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It is good to see you have a lot of experience in Human Resources.
Some of the abuses foreign workers suffer
Wednesday 5 July 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Increasingly foreign workers in the Cook Islands are becoming the backbone of our economy and increasingly they are not being given the respect and protection from a lot of unscrupulous Cook Islanders. As a worker they have rights as an employee enshrined in Cook Islands employment legislation.
Comments on egg supplies wide of mark
Tuesday 4 July 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I was disappointed with deputy Prime Minister Teariki Heather's comments in parliament last Thursday on the Agriculture Vote when he said, "I have bought eggs supplied by Papa John Scott and I can assure this House that he cannot supply the needs of our people."
Workers suffer at hands of employers
Tuesday 4 July 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
If Mr Pynenburg and his ilk think the ERA 2012 protects workers from unscrupulous business owners, then he either has selective memory loss or he is totally unaware of the goings on of his fellow members of the Chamber of Commerce and other business owners in their treatment of local workers and foreigners.
Here's a quick lesson on our court hierarchy
Tuesday 4 July 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Appellate Court would not be amused at all.
Kare e na te teina e apii i te tuakana
Friday 30 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
E pa’uanga teia I te reta a te tangata tavini o te Kaumaiti o te Are Ariki i te ra 28 o Tiunu.
Some questions for the Chamber of Commerce
Friday 30 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Chamber of Commerce, we are led to believe, is the voice of business in the Cook Islands (read that as “Rarotonga” if you like).
Tourists rip off medical system
Wednesday 28 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I would like to raise an issue on our guest visitors that have been treated in our hospital here in Rarotonga who did not pay their kaiou before they left the island.
Invitation to air views on PM's turou on radio
Wednesday 28 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Tumu Manako: Taku Peu. Naai?
Buying votes not best way to spend
Monday 26 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The most notable item with the current Budget presented by the Minister of Finance Mark Brown is the $34 increase of child benefit, taking to $100 a month.
Parliament needs advice from Kiwi expert
Monday 26 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I was interested to hear the Speaker on Thursday announce the presence here of a former Deputy Clerk of the NZ parliament, Debra Angus, to assist in a review of the Parliamentary Standing Orders and I would suggest such review is not before time.
Landowners frustrated too
Thursday 22 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I read with interest Arthur Pickering’s story of his frustration with the government for not considering the consequences of actions government takes without consultation with stakeholders.
Thank you Thomas Wynne
Thursday 22 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Saturday’s CI News had Thomas Wynne’s plea that as a culture we get around to fixing decades of turning a blind eye to the systematic sexual abuse of our women and girls and on the facing page NZ Prime Minister Bill English crowing about the $15 million that NZ is to contribute to a submarine cable to allow us to play video games all the faster.
Excuses, but no proof, over PM's welcome
Thursday 22 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Obviously the House of Ariki president and his advisers needed to justify to their many critics why they copied the New Zealand Maori custom of wero on their marae for the occasion of the New Zealand PM's visit.
For those who don't follow vaka-jumping laws
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The front page story in the Saturday edition about Rose Brown shows some political hangers-on still don’t understand the law about “vaka jumping”.
Smiley not best choice to lead
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Demos have done it again.
Final nail in coalition coffin?
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It should be clarified that the member for Teenui-Mapumai Rose Brown made her arbitrary decision to leave the Cook Islands Party following PM Puna’s “gift” of a ministerial position (complete with large salary plus all the “ministerial extras”) which was offered to the then- Demo MP Albert Nicholas of RAPPA, to actively entice him to leave the Demo Party and cross the floor, to join with the CIP government as a new Crown minister.
Justice served cold is not justice
Monday 19 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Walking up to my house I wasn’t sure who she was but what I could tell immediately was that there was a sense of urgency about her.
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