Letters to the Editor
Pot calling the kettle black?
Tuesday 30 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A good place to learn about the history of traditional leaders and the ‘kopu tangata’, their roles and customs is during the land court sittings.
Unleashing our full potential
Monday 29 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The performance of our national Sevens squad in Hong Kong last month came under much criticism by the population at large ranging from previous national players to general onlookers.
An insult to senior citizens
Monday 29 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In regards to your front page article on the pensioners’ rally (Pensioners rally for tax war, April 27) a spokesman has been quoted as saying that many owe around $4000 a year.
Tax haven a very current problem
Saturday 27 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, One of the inevitable parts of working as an investigative journalist is that people who feel criticised usually deny everything and then get personal, attacking the messenger.
A vibrant, strong and proud people
Friday 26 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, All my life I have looked carefully at myself and my indigenous Cook Islands people! This is what I have observed and noticed: 1.
'On the losing end again'
Friday 26 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have so far kept quiet in regards to the taxation of superannuates but after reading the article featuring Don Reid in this morning’s paper (A pensioners view on tax, April 24) I feel I must add my two cents worth.
In anticipation
Friday 26 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to Mr Speedypants (MOIP asleep at the wheel? April 20).
'The end of the human world'
Wednesday 24 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Bible teaches that God created man and woman, male and female, Adam and Eve, brought them together, they conceived, produced and kept reproducing, became fruitful and multiplied and brought forth a world of human civilizations.
'Take their points'
Tuesday 23 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I want to highlight another reason why the Cook Islands Rugby League 1 year stand down rule is dumb– because it doesn’t just apply to the premier grade! This dumb rule applies to the whole club, yes, every age grade in every club – did the scientists on the CIRL board really think about what they were doing? Did they specify in the rules this only applies to the premier grade – no they didn’t.
Is double-dipping legal?
Monday 22 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Re the current Pension debate, I have two questions which I’m sure Mr Neves (MFEM) can answer: 1.
'Yesterday's news will not sell'
Saturday 20 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As I listened to Niky Hager on Matariki radio – I couldn’t help but think of Dr Who the time traveler, but more on that later.
Letting the big fish get away?
Saturday 20 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir, With all this talk from MFEM about taxing pensions and now offshore finance places being used to get out of tax, I was wondering.
The problem of outward migration
Friday 19 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Clearly, Mr Worthington likes to get lost in pointless arguments (They have larger reefs than ours, April 15th) and instead of proposing solutions he attacks my ’status’ by relegating my opinion to ’secondary’ - but not so secondary that it was not enough to prompt him to put pen to paper again.
Rattling and vibrating
Friday 19 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, How long must the driving public of this country have to put up with the unsealed roading in Tupapa before they are re-sealed? It’s OK for the PM and his cabinet ministers who, when in country, zoom along in their modern, GA tax-funded plush vehicles over the dug up roads without a care in the world and not feeling any bumps.
Discontinued the practice
Friday 19 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Please allow me to make one clarification to your article in today’s (April 17) edition (Diplomatic bags taken ‘seriously’).
Diplomatic bag a pie in the sky story
Thursday 18 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It was good insight reading Jim Gosselin’s comments in yesterday’s (April 17) paper clarifying the function of a diplomatic pouch.
Nothing but a big bag of air
Thursday 18 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To ‘Reality check please’ (‘Punishment outweighs the crime, April 17) and ‘Secretary, Scott’s Support Team’ (‘A negative picture’ April 16), I would like to say that this American, Arlander, has committed a crime in the Cook Islands and was rightfully found guilty.
The result of overfishing
Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have been staying with my mother for the last 10 weeks in Orewa, just north of Auckland.
Punishment outweighs the crime
Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Probably like a great majority of the folks in this country who are not ultra-conservative, religious zealots or don’t have a stone-age mentality, I am both appalled and outraged that an individual who was recently found guilty of selling a few grams of marijuana has been forced to rot in jail for four months before the judge hands down his sentence in August.
Return to paradise?
Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It would be nice to have a film on my beautiful, unspoilt, unhurried, unsophiscated little island of Aitutaki.
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