Letters to the Editor
Tax rules for some don't apply to others...
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
LATE IN 2016 a Grey Power member requested information from New Zealand through the Official Information Act, to confirm the number of New Zealand pensions being paid in the Cook Islands.
Chinese president trumps Donald on the golf course
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MAY I suggest that Kata’s virtually picture-less cartoon of January 16 was substantially below par?
Tourists not to blame for plight of needy
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
REGARDING the letter published in the CI News on Monday January 16, we feel it is necessary to respond to "Shameful".
Time for action on tax offenders
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
LOVE the interview in CI News last Saturday with Mark Brown on the tax amnesty for penalty arrears of over 20 years.
Too many guns for such a small island
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
OH MY GOSH! are you kidding me?
Speaker's comments on the money
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
NIKKI Rattle wants more women in parliament and after the past few years of watching the male dominated, egocentric CIP government who are all male, notice Henry Puna has never given any of the women MPs a portfolio.
Tourism eats too much of fiscal pie
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE GOVERNMENT'S funding priorities continue to be misaligned with far too much of the Budget going to the Ministry of Tourism. Taxpayers pay for flight subsidies and for visiting travel journalists to get wined and dined.
Helmet crackdown, alcohol ignored
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
WE ARE two weeks into the new year and no deaths on our roads - which is a wonderful thing.
Name and shame these tax avoiders
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THERE are two things in this world you can't avoid - death and taxes, but not here in the Crook islands.
Choose to live life courageously
Monday 16 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THIS WEEK I was watching on television the US Senator Jeff Sessions being given a grilling by the US Senate, as he wants to be appointed Attorney General for the Trump-led US government.
Govt priorities misdirected
Monday 16 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE GOVERNMENT'S funding priorities continue to be misaligned, with far too much of the budget going to the Ministry of Tourism.
Last year's problems won't go away
Friday 13 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I BELIEVE we are at a tipping point when it comes to a successful future for our country and our people.
Clarification from opposition leader
Thursday 12 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN RESPONSE to Mata McNair’s comments regarding a story in CI News headlined, “Opposition quiet on tax issue.”
Novel solution for country's depopulation problem
Thursday 12 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
AT THE rate things are going, the CIP government will soon be able to solve the depopulation problem by making Cook Islands the new haven for all of the world’s people who don’t want to obey the law.
Family reunions events to savour
Thursday 12 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE ANTICIPATION of seeing all the members of my extended Puna family is a feeling I really enjoy, especially around this time of the year.
Maggie has education of life
Wednesday 11 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THANK YOU Joker for your views on “If I were an MP…”
Politicians should not accept tax amnesty
Wednesday 11 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE EDITOR,
Ignore us, then we should ignore govt
Wednesday 11 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
ISN'T IT amazing how our government works.
Is 2017 going to be a better year for us?
Wednesday 11 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
DEAR EDITOR,
Fishing issue still leaves sticky questions
Tuesday 10 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THERE IS much talk on Facebook about tracking fishing vessels and MMR are on television telling us how the Cook Islands are the most managed fishing nation in the Pacific.
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