Letters to the Editor
Letters: Give our footballers a break
Thursday 7 September 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I have been pondering if I should write to you but for the sake of my children’s passion for soccer, I will write.
Letter: Where are our MPs?
Wednesday 6 September 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, After an eight/nine-week break, parliament sits for 1 hour 15 minutes and then adjourns for three months -- pathetic!
Letters: ‘We have become a nation of drunk drivers’
Wednesday 6 September 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The latest drink drive crashes and arrests prompts this letter. Some weeks back your Court reporter told us not only the name of the driver before the criminal division of the Court but also that the accused had been drinking at home before going for a top-up at Luna Bar.
Letters: Monopoly in Pacific shipping lanes, Cooks operator claims
Tuesday 5 September 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Further to recent correspondence and comment in your newspaper regarding freight rates applicable to the shipping services operated between New Zealand and the Cook Islands by Matson, please be aware of the following:
Letters: Our shipping lanes...
Monday 4 September 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Any container shipping licence involving the Cook Islands should include, as a non-negotiable condition, free shipping of a number of containers to New Zealand for undesirable tita.
Letters: Secretary of Health Bob Williams replies
Saturday 2 September 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The Cook Islands only registered two Covid-19 related deaths from the onset of Covid-19 up to normalising Covid-19 on 1 July 2022.
Letters: Where is the outrage?
Saturday 2 September 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Exactly two years ago l wrote a letter about my concern for testing the experimental vaccine on our people. It is now proven it was a bad mistake and a waste of time as it never did a thing to stop the virus spreading or infecting you.
Letter: A deafening silence
Friday 1 September 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Over the past couple of days there has been a deafening silence from the Ministry of Transport regarding the shipping industry issues raised in the Cook Islands News.
Letter: What’s happened to out game of football?
Wednesday 30 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The nine to one thrashing by Tahiti of our national men’s football team on Monday night is our worst result in recent years.
Letter: Questions surrounding ‘concrete pads’ outside Apii Takitumu grounds
Wednesday 30 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Kia Orana Editor, Can someone from ICI please explain to me what the purpose of building the two concrete structures out on the road at Takitumu Primary School was/is supposed to serve?
Letter: PM on release of Fukushima water
Tuesday 29 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
One question that should be posed to our Prime Minister who has foolishly backed nuclear treated water dumping into Moana Nui A Kiva and the Japanese government.
Letter: Keep our beaches clean
Tuesday 29 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I'm writing to give some (hopefully) constructive criticism of the rubbish on the beaches on your beautiful island.
Letter: Monopoly in Pacific shipping lanes
Monday 28 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
To the Editor, Further to the report from Al Williams in Saturday’s paper.
Letter: ‘Agriculture in these islands is broken’
Saturday 26 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Kia Orana Editor, I am a visitor to your beautiful islands and have been for many years observing the growth over time.
Letter: Who’s pulling the strings?
Saturday 26 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, While the Prime Minister is too busy on his overseas trips, his Cabinet Minister George “Maggie” Angene appears to be running a racket by treating the Ministry of Cultural Development bank account like his personal piggy bank.
Letter: Aitutaki ‘booming’
Friday 25 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Having just come back from a two-day work mission to Aitutaki, I was amazed to see the number of tourists, people, cars, heavy duty tricks, motorcycles . . . busy, busy scenes everywhere. No scene like it, even in Rarotonga.
Letter: ‘A lump in my throat and tears in my eyes’
Friday 25 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I only recently came across your article of 17th June 2011 regarding the passing of Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reid as I was researching for my autobiography.
Letter: Cannabis
Wednesday 23 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Under (t) of the Regulations of the Drugs Act,the Executive Council can provide an exemption of any person or classes of persons from imposing any conditions or obligations of any controlled drug.
Letter: ‘None of this was necessary’
Wednesday 23 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Kia Orana, This entire Takitumu road/crossing/ fence issue is just tutae moko.
Letter: Implementing cannabis legalisation
Tuesday 22 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I write out of concern for the majority passed Cook Islands referendum on marijuana legalisation and the direction in which the government is proceeding.