Letters to the Editor
Letter: Medicinal cannabis plan
Monday 15 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I have some very good news. This good news was right there in front of me all this time but I overlooked it.
Letter: Call for dialogue on ‘water issues’
Saturday 13 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor I hope this letter finds you well, this missive presents an opportunity for an open dialogue regarding a matter of significant community concern.
Letter: Medicinal cannabis plan for Ministry of Health
Thursday 11 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The following is a proposal to allow for the individual cultivation of medicinal cannabis by patients who qualify under a clinical trial supervised by the Ministry of Health.
Letter: Preventing drink driving
Thursday 11 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, The never ending headlines and stories of drink driving, and “nearly nine times” over the limit will not stop until two things occur.
Letter: Traffic infringement notice
Tuesday 9 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, The Cook Islands Government can boast a unique traffic regulation that is unparalleled in the Pacific region, if not in the entire Western world.
Letter: Cannabis law review: How much longer?
Monday 8 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, On August 1st 2022, an overwhelming 62 per cent of the voters said yes to reviewing laws to allow for the research and medical use of cannabis.
Letter: Old makes way for the new
Saturday 6 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The anonymous letter writer under “Old makes way for the new” failed to appreciate that we are fortunate in having probably the largest parking area in Rarotonga almost straight across the road directly behind the market, about 120 metres away.
Letter: Best by date’ sale
Saturday 6 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, How is that most retailers will put on sale any perishable goods nearing their ‘Best by date’ while others continue to sell the product at top price.
Letters: Road works
Friday 5 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Editor, I note in your paper yesterday, the farmers of Titikaveka are not happy with the road works going on in their area for the reasons they give.
Letters: Old makes way for new
Friday 5 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Your story of old makes way for new, and the planned closed to $1 million on a 360 square metre site on the main road is somewhat perplexing.
Letters: The role of free media . . .
Friday 5 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Editor, What a load of hogwash and hypocrisy coming out of Henry Puna’s mouth.
LETTER: Progress or new problem?
Monday 1 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, The newly constructed sidewalk fronting Trader Jacks is perplexing. Previous to this construction, the open access to the Avarua Wharf from across the street next to the Ministry of Justice where the canoes are stored was seamless.
Letter:No labourers?
Friday 28 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
In Saturday 22 April’s front page story (Labour shortage), it stated that we have a labour shortage problem “more so here than in Tonga or Samoa”.
Letter: Vaimaanga backroad ‘disruption’
Friday 28 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, While amazed with the speed in which Sonny Williams, new MP for Titikaveka tackled the Vaimaanga backroad project, what he succeeded the most was to upset the landowners.
Letter: Continuing inflation . . .
Thursday 20 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
KiaOrana, Cook Islands News front page item, 18 April 2023 refers…TAU can try whatever sidestep they want to, trying to suggest that those fuel increases were continuing to affect power rates in Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Letter: Delay in court hearing
Monday 17 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Leave it to Norman George to be so inconvenienced from having to wait for a Family Court hearing called at short notice to hear an urgent application for protection orders for a Cook Islands woman.
Letter: Decriminalising homosexuality
Monday 17 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Saturday’s headline, “We have made history” records two historical events in the Cook Islands.
Letter: Delay in court hearing
Friday 14 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I wish to complain about the poor attitude of the Ministry of Justice in allocating the sittings of the High Court of the Cook Islands.
Letter: Rarotonga roads
Saturday 8 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Big and humungous meitaki maata once again to our road workers for consistently extending nice and smooth hot mixed tarsealed roads, the longest and farthest so far, especially from as far as Avana and fast passing Tupapa Super Brown.
Letter: Selling seabed mining story
Saturday 8 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Wednesday’s headline, “Prime Minister sells the United States a seabed mining story.”