Letters to the Editor
New principal welcomed
Saturday 15 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Apii Te Uki Ou welcomed its new principal and new teacher yesterday.
Let justice prevail
Friday 14 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As I read in Cook Islands News the front page headline of the paper of Wednesday June 12 (MP repeats Colagate inquiry call) about Norman George’s concern about the specific issue of the Colagate scandal -- it hit me smack in the face, that there is something dodgy and fishy about this Colagate scandal.
'Borrowed' cash
Friday 14 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On our first night here in Rarotonga we were relieved, between the hours of 3.30am and 7am, of $2500 cash.
'Just waiting to be tapped'
Thursday 13 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Would someone in authority please answer these questions in the interests of those long suffering people whom we read about having no or little water: 1.
Tourism up or Down?
Wednesday 12 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Cook Islands Tourism Corporation is forecasting a decline in visitor arrivals of 7 per cent for the calendar year 2013 with this trend continuing in 2014.
An agricultural powerhouse
Wednesday 12 June 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In regards to agriculture, few of us will remember just how productive we were back in the 60s and 70s.
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.
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.
'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.
'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.
'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.
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