Letters to the Editor
Tax protest a matter of principle
Tuesday 15 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Why do Grey Power members keep talking about tax? Why do they keep stubbornly refuse to back down?
Making a mockery of HOM selection
Tuesday 15 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I understand there is an agreed process for finalising the shortlist of candidates for Heads of Ministries positions which has been followed by the PSC.
Case for retaining Secretary of Justice
Tuesday 15 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The wait to see who will be the newly-appointed or reappointed HOMs is excruciating.
Schooner inquiry a load of bollocks
Monday 14 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The reading public are not deaf, dumb, blind or stupid but according to Cook Islands Party PM Henry Puna, Finance Minister Mark Brown and Fin Sec Richard Neves they certainly think we are. I think the schooner inquiry is a load of bollocks.
Health too speedy on road safety strategy
Monday 14 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It’s official. There are two versions of island time.
Agriculture failing our fish
Monday 14 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Kiriau Turepu, as the Minister of Environment and Agriculture, does his left hand not know what his right hand is doing? How can he protect our country’s environment while he allows poisons to be sprayed on gardens around the island when it reaches into our lagoon?
Climate stance 'two-faced'
Monday 14 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Our prime minister, Henry Puna once again wears the two-faced mask at yet another climate change forum.
Dog problem has simple solutions
Friday 11 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Anyone who has ever visited this beautiful paradise of the Cook Islands and in particular Rarotonga, will most likely have been made aware of the problems created by ‘man’s best friend.”
UN job will be wonderful for someone
Friday 11 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, There are many issues which learned people have written to CI News about recently.
Meet and greet great success
Friday 11 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On behalf of the Cook Islands Breast Cancer Foundation, a big meitaki maata to Julia Evans and Kelly Jones and her team at High Tide.
Professor right about UN precedents
Thursday 10 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Professor Stephen Levine was quite correct, in your front page article of Tuesday’s CI News, where he pointed out that New Zealand joined the United Nations in 1945 when New Zealand citizenship did not exist.
Still fighting that tax
Thursday 10 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To be brief and to the point, I last paid income tax in New Zeland over 21 years ago.
Pensioners disregarded
Thursday 10 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The callous disregard and lack of caring for the elderly New Zealand-paid pensioners continues unabated by the over-zealous and threatening MFEM/IRD Staff.
Stern warning for vandals
Tuesday 8 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, When calling into the Jetsave office on Sunday I saw a really disappointing sight.
Thanks for the clean-up
Tuesday 8 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We, the residents of Turangi Valley, extend our sincere appreciation to the Takamoa Theological College students who voluntarily cleaned up the sides of the road up to the Turangi water intake.
Time to end pageant disunity
Tuesday 8 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The first Miss Rarotonga was held in 1960, 15 years after the Second World War and five years before Cook Islands became self-governing.
Whale-watch letter raises disturbing issues
Monday 7 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The letter to the Editor dated September five and headlined, ‘Talk of whale-watching ban ‘disturbing’, is in itself disturbing.
Why Cook Islanders don't want to come home
Monday 7 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Why would PM Puna be surprised that Cook Islanders in New Zealand are not rushing to boats and planes and flocking home?
Whale research real team effort
Friday 4 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was shocked and appalled to read Wednesday’s letter to the Cook Island News regarding Nan Hauser’s research in Rarotonga.
Large signs create 'litter' problem
Friday 4 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have always lived in village of Titikaveka.
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