Letters to the Editor
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.
Shame on resorts banning pool use
Monday 30 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I WRITE in disappointment at the fact that Rarotonga has, for the most part, now become one of the Pacific Islands that excludes patrons from the friendliness and patronage of using their facilities.
The real reasons Wright wants change
Monday 30 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
NATIONAL rugby 15s coach Stanley Wright’s comments contained in an article in Wednesday 25 January’s CI News, regarding the issue of CIRU’s governance structure and other rugby matters.
Tim Tepaki Aid for tax offenders unfair on those who pay
Friday 27 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I really object to the fact that helping repeat offenders should even have been considered for this tax amnesty declared by the prime minister.
Better Kata
Friday 27 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT HAS to be said that Kata’s cartoon on January 25 is an improvement on the Kata of January 16 in terms of pictures, but what’s with the play on words?
Energy projects a fairy tale come true
Friday 27 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I REFER to the smoke signaller whose contribution appeared under the headline, “PM’s renewable energy comments fairy tale stuff,” in CI News on January 18.
Akarana visit raises crucial questions
Thursday 26 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE ADDITION of more sophisticated medical equipment to our local hospital could help reduce needless deaths from illness and diseases, says Koutu Nui president Paul Allsworth.
PM gives blessing on us not paying tax
Wednesday 25 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
PRIME minister Henry Puna made a public announcement a couple of days before Christmas Day and declared a tax amnesty, with a starting date of December 31, 2015.
Opposition did not question evacuation costs
Wednesday 25 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
NEGATIVE comments were made publicly during the recent bereavement for Deputy Prime Minister Teariki Heather’s wife Tarome that the coalition opposition was questioning the cost of the medical evacuation of his daughter to New Zealand.
Top 10pc are the CIP's new 'grassroots'
Wednesday 25 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MINISTER Brown has told the Cook Islands News (January 20), “The government wants to give an opportunity to all Cook Islanders to benefit from this (tax amnesty).”
Good on you Tapi, for telling the story
Tuesday 24 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I COMMEND this country's major domestic shipping owner Tapi Taio for having the guts to come out in public and expose the political interference and favouritism that goes on at the port of Avatiu.
Waterfall fee not OK
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
SINCE when did it become okay to hold tourists up at the road entrance by the old Sheraton and demand five bucks to go and see the waterfall?
Finance minister needs some lessons about taxation
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Can someone please tell the minister for finance the purpose of tax?
Lagoon crisis response 'incompetent'
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE COMBINED government department response to the crisis in Muri lagoon remains, if not criminal, then incompetent in the extreme.
CIRU president clarifies sevens issue
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
REGARDING the article in Thursday’s newspaper quoting the Cook Islands Rugby Union 15s coach Stan Wright that the U18s sevens team which participated in the inaugural World Schools 7s tournament in Auckland, New Zealand on 17 December 2016 “was done on our own without any help or encouragement from CIRU executives”.
Knight that man!
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
TAPI TAIO of Taio Shipping should be knighted for the work his company has done as a local business.
Our neighbours the ones really leading the way
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
WHEN IT comes to leading the Pacific in policy on climate change as per prime minister Henry Puna’s weekly column recently, the fact that this man can talk his way into free trips to Abu Dhabi on a regular basis is testament only to his ability to croon.
'They're making us second class citizens'
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE DECISION to use nurses rather than doctors in the outer islands is all part of the rundown of government services everywhere except the tourist islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
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