Letters to the Editor
Letter: Fire dangers
Friday 18 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Thank you to the anonymous writer for raising the issues around electrical items being supplied in the Cook Islands.
Letter: Stop ripping off your workers
Friday 18 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Friday, August 4, was a Public Holiday for our 58th Constitution Day celebrations. Everyone was legally entitled to enjoy a day off as a legal Public Holiday.
Letter: Fire dangers
Thursday 17 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
A few well-known retailers are flaunting several laws by selling electrical items that have flaws.
Letter: ‘We’re not bold enough’
Thursday 17 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, It’s been long pointed out to the Government that there is an existing legal framework to legalise both the importation and cultivation of medicinal cannabis under the Ministry of Health Act 2013 and the amended Drugs Act 2009 respectively.
Letter: MFEM clarifies business loans
Wednesday 16 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, In response to the letter from Covid Bank on August 3, 2023, I would like to inform your readers about the loans the Cook Island Government made during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Letter: ‘We have gone backwards’
Tuesday 15 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, C’mon you ding-a-lings – you are sending a small sports team to the Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad and Tobago and we don’t even know who they are and what sports they are representing us and what is their level of performance and what chances they have to bring home a medal?
Letter: Anti-obesity drugs
Tuesday 15 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
As my last effort to generate some awareness and discussion, a later article in Nature says that “a weekly dose of Wegovy (aka semaglutide) slashed the risk of severe cardiovascular events by 20 per cent in adults with heart disease and either overweight or obesity.
Letter: Too little too late for Aitutaki lagoon and reef
Monday 14 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
A couple of weeks back the National Environment Service (NES) announced $400,000 funding to undertake a foreshore study of Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Letter: Pick up the tita
Saturday 12 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Can you please enquire and tell your readers the size of the budget for the National Environment Service?
Letter: Potholes
Thursday 10 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Earlier this week, the writer and spouse were travelling anti-clockwise through Puaikura at dusk and, just before the new asphalt roadway gifted to Tinomana Ariki by the ever-generous Chris Vaile of Triad, two tourists on a motor scooter, in the fading light of the day, tried to swerve to miss one of the uncountable potholes.
Letter: ‘Don’t diss our uniforms’
Thursday 10 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, To the letter writer who criticised the beautiful uniforms of our youth teams at the 7th Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.
Letter: Obesity
Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I was very surprised and pleased to receive a briefing from Nature magazine that anti-obesity drugs are available.
Letter: Legal aid
Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The miserly $40k budget for legal aid is continuing evidence that our "honourable" members of Parliament honour nothing but their own inflated egos and, in too many cases, inflated bellies.
Letter: The fashion police say ‘save’ the 80s
Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
No one wants to say this out loud before our youth compete at the Commonwealth Games but it has to be said.
Letter: Show them the door
Tuesday 8 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
We are one year removed from the general election where 64 per cent of the formal votes cast were in favour of legalising medicinal cannabis.
Letter: Award winning plan ‘ridiculous’
Tuesday 8 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I just came across an article which I had kept and put aside, from Cook Islands News, September 13, 2022, titled “20+ years timeframe for award winning town plan”.
Letter: Loss of sand and Motu Toa
Monday 31 July 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, With regards to Des Eggelton’s response to the Te Ipukarea Society article last Saturday (22 July 2023), “We can’t go back but we can look back and learn”, we appreciate his first-hand knowledge in correcting the incorrect statement that sand for the airport had come from Muri.
Letters: ‘Faction versus facts’
Saturday 29 July 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, We, the Mamas of the Arorangi Cook Islands Christian Church Ekalesia, who hosted our volunteers during the Church improvements are saddened and upset by the Letter to the Editor dated the 25th July 2023 titled “Factions in the Gospel Celebrations” and signed off by Tepure Ki Au.
Letter: FIFA boss visit ‘a waste of money’
Thursday 27 July 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
It was good to read in your paper yesterday that the FIFA President will pay a visit to the Cook Islands and other Pacific countries.
Letter: Let’s learn from our mistakes
Thursday 27 July 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Thank you for taking the time to read my piece in last Saturday’s paper. Many days of thinking and hours of heartfelt writing are reduced to just a few hundred words and I can’t help but wonder at times if anyone takes notice. Meitaki ranuinui Des (Eggelton).