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Proud legacy of medical care squandered

Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor

ONE OF NEW Zealand’s great achievements, when it was the colonial power in the Cook Islands was that by 1955 permanent medical staff were stationed on all inhabited islands of the Cook Islands, a smoke signaller says.

Tax amnesty poor start to government's year

Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor

IN MY opinion, PM Henry Puna and his CIP government have openly misgoverned our country over the last few years.

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PM's renewable energy comments fairy tale stuff

Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor

IT WAS NICE to read our PM’s fairy tale/story about us leading the way as an observer for renewable energy conservation to IRENA.

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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.

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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?

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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".

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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