Letters to the Editor
Check flight figures first
Friday 15 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, There has been a great deal of hype and exaggeration from both sides of the ‘Sunday flights to Aitutaki’ debate: a downturn in tourists, massive job losses, cuts, emigration etc.
Bad driving is plain scary
Friday 15 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To the driver who sped off in a white double cab truck with the name of the company stamped right across the back of it, please slow down before you kill someone.
Grey Power carries on the tax fight
Wednesday 13 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Grey Power went quiet and off the scene for some months now. The reason for that is that I am the chairman and I went overseas at Christmas for a well-earned R&R.
Leave it up to Aitutaki
Wednesday 13 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is Aitutaki’s choice whether or not to allow flights on Sunday. I say let them decide, because it is the people on that island who will suffer or benefit from the decision.
Take a lesson, Prime Minister
Wednesday 13 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Listening to the Cook Islands Party radio talkback show last week, I was utterly disgusted with the Prime Minister’s response to those who have voiced their concern over the handling of our offshore fisheries.
Norman George backs Aitutaki voters
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write to record my total and absolute support to the people of Aitutaki who voted to stop Sunday flights. Some hard, cold facts need spelling out.
Journalist Derek Fox challenged
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In his column (Saturday May 9) Mr Derek Fox, it would appear, is once again coming out in support of the Te Mato Vai project.
Science question is for MMR to answer
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I usually like to keep my letters short, so people will read them. However, in this case it will be difficult!
'Really only one thing that counts'
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding Saturday’s front page story ‘Businesses call for continued Sunday flights’ (9 May 2015), I guess in this day and age, anyone can throw in a few figures here and there to put a spin on supporting one’s argument.
Interference and neglect
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As it is now well over a week and no-one has bothered to comment, I have some observations on a couple of news items with regard to the purse seine petition.
Buffer shrinkage
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Whilst the purse seining debate rages on, for the sake of our future, there are other environmental issues that we, the people of the Cook Islands, need to keep an eye on, lest undesireable deals slip by unnoticed.
Scare tactics
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Saturday’s front page story about the opinion of a few business people is another reminder of the Scare Tactics that a few greedy people are using to frighten the majority of Cook Islands to shut up and give up on what they honestly believe.
Wheres' the scientific argument?
Saturday 9 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reluctant as I am to get into the Great Purse Seine Debate, I’m not sure I can take too much more of the diatribe I am being bombarded with through the media.
What happened to Nemo?
Saturday 9 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With all this talk about fish, what happened to the question about the stealing of our lagoon fish 'Nemo' and selling them overseas to sit in foreign aquariums in foreign office buildings?
Budget-balancing irrelevant to fishing issue
Friday 8 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The key test on the issue whether purse seining on our tuna should be allowed or not, (and if so to what extent), is whether the resource is sustainable.
Neve's ideas on purse seining 'nonsensical'
Friday 8 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor The Financial Secretary, Richard Neves, advances the nonsensical idea (CI New 7 May, 2015) that a ban on purse seine fishing ‘is of limited conservation value’.
Fishing issues not all new...
Wednesday 6 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With a lot of people talking about purse seine fishing I thought it was time to highlight one or two issues.
Let's do it for our children's sake
Wednesday 6 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As you know, I am one of the people behind the petition against purse seining.
Roads pose real danger
Wednesday 6 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Can someone please get the Chinese engineering contractors or our local company T&M to fix the road in front of Titikaveka College?
Effectiveness of FAD closures on fishery
Tuesday 5 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing to provide clarification and context to certain comments that have been attributed to me in various media in recent weeks regarding the effectiveness of FAD closures in the purse seine fishery.
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