Letters to the Editor
Land should go back to people
Friday 10 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I just can’t get past the headlines of a local man harassing two young females for not paying a road toll of five dollars, which is even more wrong in the first place.
Catch criminals not schoolkids!
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It is baffling to watch the police spend so much time on the road in broad daylight preying on innocent school students trying to charge them $100 for not wearing a helmet.
Get on the beat to drop PCs' pounds
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I am a strong supporter of our police force but, lately, I am wondering if they think it is a 9am to 5 pm job only, as I never see them out patrolling and policing much at night.
Two years on and what has changed?
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT IS always a good idea to do a spring clean once a year and you always find some lost items, or ones of interest you had forgotten about.
Raise the drinking age from 18 to 21
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Now we have a stabbing to add to our multiple shootings … what next?
A need for change
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I write with disappointment at CIRU for their decision on Stan Wright’s outspoken mind and his visions (through his Strategic Plan – it’s available for all to read).
PM jets off again?
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Office of the Prime Minister’s spin doctors appear to be in the dark about the whereabouts - or reasons - for the prime minister traveling to Singapore.
Nurse practitioners can do it!
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I share many of the concerns of the Mangaian community expressed in a recent letter to the Cook Islands News
Locals fouling up 'paradise' too
Monday 6 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I have spent many months on these beautiful islands over the past three years and repeatedly read articles in the paper about how the tourists are being unfairly blamed for the pollution of Muri Beach’s lagoon.
Some advice for people of Pa Enua
Monday 6 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
To the people of the Pa Enua with no doctors on your island and with no-one listening to your calls for basic hospital supplies and services, here is my advice:
Forgiveness works in mysterious ways
Monday 6 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
If the PM can demonstrate so much forgiveness for convicted drug dealers Arlander and Marsters by making them welcome in his office and work with them on a community project, perhaps he can show the same degree of forgiveness for Mark Franklin
Wright's resignation a blow for rugby
Saturday 4 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I am deeply disappointed, saddened, but not surprised at the actions of the CIRU executive in terminating national rugby coach Stanley Wright.
Island health services in dire need
Friday 3 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
We are writing to express our grave concerns and those of our fellow resident Mangaians about the health care situation on the island.
Where's the drivel?
Friday 3 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
PS: To the smoke signaller: As you clearly pointed out, no one group of people has a monopoly on being racist; it is a human condition we have all experienced in one way or another.
Chamber of Commerce clarification helpful
Friday 3 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I would like to thank Jaewynn McKay and the Chamber of Commerce for their letter responding to comments made in my Column Saturday on January 31, 2017.
Watch out for that algae
Thursday 2 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE TWO recent articles in Cook Islands News, first the Tourism Corporation patting itself on the back, and then the footloose prime minister patting the Tourism Corporation on the back, come suspiciously soon after the most recent public outrage at government and the Tourism Corporation fiddling while the algae eats up Muri lagoon and social media continues to spread the story as fast as the algae itself is spreading.
Chamber benefits 'local' business
Thursday 2 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE EXECUTIVE of the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce noted with interest the comments by Thomas Wynne from the prime minister’s office in last Saturday’s CI News.
Inquiry slap in the face for NZ relationship
Wednesday 1 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
WHEN IT was announced earlier this month by PM Puna that government had decided to select an Australian citizen, former Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Denis McDermott, and retired former Cook Islands Police Commissioner Tevai Matapo, to be their two-man team to head a Commission of Inquiry into last year’s shooting incident, my first thought was that this was simply not good enough.
Stan Wright has his final word
Tuesday 31 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
KIA ORANA to the people of the Cook Islands.
Signaller owes a big apology to our women
Monday 30 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE SMOKE Signaller who claims that women should have more babies instead of being encouraged to stand in parliament clearly is not of this century or is very anti-women.
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