Letters to the Editor
Water supply 'beyond a joke'
Wednesday 12 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It has been nine weeks up Avatiu Valley without a drop off the mains.
In living colour
Wednesday 12 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Once again, your paper has seen fit to publish a black and white photo of the invasive oriental fruit fly.
Affordable air services
Tuesday 11 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am one of the group of Cook Islanders who came together to scope a comprehensive development plan to expand tourism to the outer islands and I am proud of it.
No water at all in Nikao
Tuesday 11 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing in regards to the lack of water in Nikao.
Action man or 'retraction' man?
Tuesday 11 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The ‘action man’, George Maggie showed us all the frustration and discontent that he has for his own party by last week standing up in Parliament and fingering the Puna cabinet, for all the things they were not doing for Tupapa-Maraerenga; for all the years of neglect and all the years of broken promises.
Development plan to grow economy
Monday 10 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I think we all agree that we have depopulation of alarming proportions and that we need to do something to stop our people leaving and enable those who have left to come home, if we are to have a sustainable economy.
Mama's Caf up for sale
Monday 10 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Mama’s Caf in Avatiu is up for sale by owners Crown Beach Resort & Spa.
Film Raro: live the dream
Friday 7 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On behalf of Drum Productions Cook Islands, I would like to express our sincere thanks to the government and the people of the Cook Islands for the support shown to us during our Film Raro Paradise Challenge project.
'Society is becoming voiceless'
Thursday 6 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is sad saying this, but the standard of broadcast journalism is appalling.
Was it just another nightmare?
Thursday 6 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Have I gone mad? Or did I dream about it? I am pretty sure I did read when the Demos were ruling the roost that the Chinese had indicated the intention to make a $10 million ship for the Cooks.
'A little smack on the hand'
Wednesday 5 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Yesterday’s article in the Cook Islands News titled “Minister Heather’s Powers Curbed?” is just another way of trying to show the public that this government is doing the right thing when in reality they are giving the minister an easy way out with a little smack on the hand.
Chinese funding for development
Tuesday 4 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We know we have to grow our economy to deliver wages, cost of living and cost of finance on par with our fellow New Zealanders to stop our people migrating to New Zealand and allow those who have migrated to come home, and the sooner the better! We know tourism on Rarotonga has expanded by some 20 per cent since the crash of 2008 and provided a platform on which to grow our economy and the opportunity to expand tourism to the outer islands to revive their economies, so they may contribute to the economy instead of feeding off Rarotonga’s economy.
Not convinced
Saturday 1 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thank you Wilkie for your clarification in yesterday’s Cook Islands News on the subject matter of stealing and borrowing.
'Taxpayers should boycott Toa'
Saturday 1 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reading about the scrapping of the Toa withholding tax in this morning’s (May 31)CI News, really just throws salt on an old wound doesn’t it? We read that the taxpayer has had to prop up Brett Porter’s failing business to the tune of $0.515 million for the period July 2012 to January 2013, $1.35 million and $1.32 million for the years 2011-2012 and 2010-2011 respectively.
Trying to keep our culture alive
Saturday 1 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have written to you in the hope that the government will hear our frustrations and do something to fix the poor performance and lack of interest and investment towards our major cultural events in the Cook Islands.
A cultural perspective on 'borrowing'
Friday 31 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have a forgiving nature which is a Christian virtue I practice.
'So much for customer service'
Thursday 30 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Mr Editor, I find the comments of the new Westpac bank manager Brett Hooker simply ‘puppet comments’ rather than comments that the banks work to and actually apply.
Where we went wrong
Thursday 30 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We know we need to grow our economy sooner rather than later to stop our people migrating to New Zealand and Australia and allow those who have migrated to come home, and that growth has to be comprehensive, integrated and sustainable to be effective.
Stealing redefined?
Thursday 30 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In your paper of Tuesday May 28 (Light bulb ‘thief’ a ‘borrower’) Wilkie Rasmussen defends his client, a repeat offender for the past years, by saying that he broke into a neighbour’s shed (my shed, as a matter of fact) to borrow a light bulb.
Bring back the Pooh-Bah?
Wednesday 29 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We all know we have an alarming depopulation of indigenous Cook Islanders laced with alarming repopulation by foreign investors and migrant workers, which is a recipe for anarchy of the type occurring around the globe if not dealt with.
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