Letters to the Editor
Letter: Friday Night Christmas dinner and fundraiser
Wednesday 29 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Not everyone goes out at night to boogie and brawl! The smarter ones, the older generation does it all in style! And it is not an all-out boozing party like the excuses some of our friends give not to attend. Most of us don’t drink! Alcohol and non-alcohol drinks are available.
Letter: ‘Keep shaking the tree, Thomas’
Wednesday 29 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I agree with much of what Thomas Wynne has been writing in the Cook Islands News over the last three Saturdays with regard to re-examining the Albert Henry Case of 1978-79
Letter: Quad bike accident
Tuesday 28 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I am writing to you as a continuing returning tourist whose family have rewardingly participated in most tourist activities the island has to offer over approximately a 20-year period.
Letter: Wynne’s note omits key fact
Tuesday 28 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I wish to comment briefly on “The Last of the Pooh-Bahs”, by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne, 18 November 2023, although I do not wish to relitigate the “fly-in voters” case.
Letter: ‘Pontificating without knowledge’
Monday 27 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I too have been dismayed and concerned about Thomas Wynne’s scurrilous article “The last of the pooh-bahs” in the Cook Islands News (Saturday, November 18) attacking Sir Gavin Donne and others of the Albert Henry saga.
Letter: Caring is sharing – Taporoporo, Tu’atu’a mamarie
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Meitaki maata our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Awakened in the early hours of Friday, November 24, to a most extraordinary sound of music so nice, cool, silent and gentle but lo, it was only raindrops falling.
Letter: Quad bike accident
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I am writing to you as a continuing returning tourist whose family have rewardingly participated in most tourist activities the island has to offer over approximately a 20-year period.
Letter: A champion of the rule of law
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I did not witness the earlier years of Albert Henry’s reign so cannot comment on his contribution in that period, but when I returned to Rarotonga to work as a lawyer in 1975, Albert had become a tyrant committed to staying in power. This was at the expense of hundreds of Cook Islands families who stood up against the abuses of government. Most were forced to leave their homeland to survive.
Letter: Nightclub brawl
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The women of the Cook Islands have little to celebrate after one, trying to stop an alcohol fuelled brawl at Rehab was punched in the face by a man who was fined all of $500, given his passport and a get out of jail card, and allowed to return to Australia.
Letter: Call for petition
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The petition started by Miss T Koteka bringing sense, focus and some clarity to the Courts and the Police regarding the Rehab nightclub brawl … public uproar seemed to have clearly made some difference.
Letter: Ozzie or Cozzie: Team Cook Islands uniform
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I saw Wesley Roberts photo after winning gold in swimming.
Letter: Where’s the fish?
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I saw a disturbing greedy photo the other week of one family on one boat showing their catch of the day, three marlin and two yellow fin tuna. No catch and release, they landed them all. There is no way they could eat one of those fish let alone all of them. I wonder if the boat company shared the lottery win with them when they sold them off at $20 to $30 per kilo.
Letter: ‘Scurrilous, rude, and wrong’
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Norman George’s rebuttal to Thomas Wynne’s opinion piece is spot on (A rebuttal to ‘The last pooh bah’, Cook Islands News, November 23).
Letter: A rebuttal to ‘The last pooh bah’
Thursday 23 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Re: Sir Gavin Donne, highly revered Chief of Justice and first Queen’s Representative of the Cook Islands. I write to record my disgust and repudiation about the article titled “The Last Pooh Bah” written by Thomas Wynne last Saturday, 18 November 2023.
Letter: Some solutions to our criminal law problems
Wednesday 22 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, A follow up to my letter published in yesterday’s Cook Islands News.
Letter: Call for urgent review of Cook Islands’ criminal law system
Tuesday 21 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Re: Our failed criminal law system:
Letter: League 9s
Monday 20 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
A simple question, I haven’t read anything regarding CISNOC’s plan to assist with the Rugby League teams’ situation days ago.
Letters: Prosecuting liquor outlets
Monday 20 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Following the trouble at Rehab Bar this writer has been waiting for any comment from the Police as to any suggestion that serving already intoxicated patrons might lead to violence fuelled by the legal drug alcohol.
Letter: ‘Pa Ariki acted in good faith, Crown must follow suit’
Saturday 18 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, In answer to your correspondent’s queries (Ring road compensation – a threat? Cook Islands News, November 16).
Letter: USP Student Association
Thursday 16 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Whoever representing USPSA said USPSA was “apolitical” (Fiji Times 3/11 ) clearly does not know its history of student activism/political activism against tyranny, dictatorships, political persecution of freedom fighters in the region and beyond, nuclear testing and armament, solidarity with anti-colonial struggles, and solidarity with indigenous people against State violence and dispossession.