Letters to the Editor
Kia orana e te etita e 'Less is Better'
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MEITAKI maata no taau reta, kare teia ite taitoito atu i toou manako.
Cook Islands better off than some
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THOMAS Wynne’s latest feature on the population and cost of living says it like it is, but will anyone with the power to make decisions take any notice?
Norman George replies: The question is, was the opposition even invited to attend the Ui Ariki Day celebrations?
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
From experience, the QR and government of the day through its cabinet ministers and its MPs usually take centre stage, while the opposition is not given any official role to play.
Opposition MPs deemed 'pathetic'
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
ON MONDAY the opposition complained in CI News and on Radio NZ about the Queen’s Representative not being present for the Ui Ariki Day celebrations.
Basking in the glory of Ariki Day 50th
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I AM still basking in the reflected glory and pageantry of the House of Ariki 50th anniversary celebrations, after their legal establishment under the Cook Islands Constitution as amended in 1966 by the Government of our first Premier, the late Papa Arapati Henry.
Get off the road
Friday 8 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
AFTER admitting to the paper that he does not know a lot about politics, you have to hand it to Albert Nicholas for announcing he would take the deputy PM’s position only if clean, no hiding-behind-closed-doors tactics were used.
Brown for PM?
Friday 8 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I THINK Rose Brown would make a good Prime Minister for the Cook Islands.
Marama meitaki ite peu Maori
Friday 8 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
TE MEITAKI ua ra toou manako e te taeake Mariri. Ka inangaro pouroa tatou i te akararangi i to tatou iti tangata taoanga i raro ake i ta tatou akono anga maori. Kia marama ra tatou e eaa te akono anga maori.
Ariki Day celebrations are OTT
Friday 8 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THANK YOU “A Mataiapo” (July 2) for drawing attention to Ariki Day and the growing nonsense associated with it.
Stay out of the water!
Thursday 7 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THIS IS from the Daily Beast;
No weekend meeting with QR, says Nicholas
Thursday 7 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
YOUR PAPER has misrepresented me as being summoned by Queen’s Representative Tom Marsters to his presence.
Tepaki hits back at Atiu development critic
Thursday 7 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MAY I refer to the letter by ghost writer “Let’s Hear It” on July 5 headed, “Questions about developer need answers.”
Like Fiji coup, but without guns
Thursday 7 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
AFTER reading the political events over the last two weeks it is becoming apparent that the members of the opposition attempted to overthrow the government through a political coup-d’etat, although without weapons.
Tepaki to Glassie: 'So what's your plan then?'
Wednesday 6 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MAY I respond to Minister Nandi Glassie’s front page article of 4 July headed “Atiu golf course plan ‘concerning’ says Glassie,” by asking what is his plan to develop Atiu and breathe life into its dying economy.
James Beer shows up government spending
Wednesday 6 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
GOOD ON MP James Beer for highlighting the governments labyrinth of dodging tactics to tell us where the money is and how they are spending it and where it is going and coming from.
Knowledgeable leaders missing
Tuesday 5 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
WHEN I listened to Captain Tama and Aunty Selina on radio last week, I was flabbergasted to hear them say that the reason they supported Teina Bishop as leader of the opposition was that no-one in the Democratic Party had the knowledge of Standing Orders that he does.
Taku peu Maori e toku Ui Ariki
Tuesday 5 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
TE INANGARO nei au ite pau ite tuatua a “A Mataiapo” ite tumu tapura “Ariki Day just “old days nonsense.”
Questions about developer need answers
Tuesday 5 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
BEFORE TIM Tepaki invades the island of Atiu with his golf course and his grandiose plans to make us all millionaires, can he please, in plain language, tell your readers the complete story of what happened the last time he asked Atiu landowners for land to support one of his projects?
MP's absence raises important questions
Monday 4 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A FORMER MP was able to exit the House during motions of confidence, believing that the 2007 anti-party hopping legislation operated on the premise that the Member had to be in the House for it to be activated.
More on Monday versus Friday debate
Monday 4 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I KNOW it was reported that my opinion piece last Tuesday would be my last work on the subject, and that would have been so if the players in this constitutional standoff did the obvious, but they have not, so blame them.
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