Letters to the Editor
Lay the 'Norm' debate to rest
Saturday 12 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write to clarify for the record the ramblings by the Leader of the Opposition Wilkie Rasmussen in his letter to you printed in Thursday’s paper and headed ‘Why Norman George is still CIP’.
Questions on traditional titles
Saturday 12 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’ve been following the articles on the Maoate Mataiapo title dispute.
No idea who to vote for
Friday 11 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing because I have no idea who to vote for in the next election.
Wilkie's 'fishy stories' refuted
Friday 11 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Wilkie Rasmussen’s comments in yesterday’s Cook Islands News saying that government had issued a number of purse-seine fishing licences are “not correct”.
Shame on Pa Ariki
Friday 11 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Shame on Pa Ariki for choosing to go against the five kopu (out of six families) that have agreed to support and endorse Tamaiva Tamaiva for the title of Maoate Mataiapo.
Canning crazy
Friday 11 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I hope Minister Bishop watched the ABC Four Corners programme on the super trawler that is stranded in Australia.
'Why Norman George is still CIP'
Thursday 10 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Norman George’s claim for the record is false and as usual with him inflammatory.
'Put up or shut up' says Bishop
Thursday 10 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Would Reuben Tylor please “put up .
Fishery in serious decline
Thursday 10 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write in support of Mr Reuben Tylor’s letter to the editor this week.
Telecom answers
Thursday 10 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Please consider the following scenarios based on actual experiences.
Golden Tuna project cost $450, not $400,000
Wednesday 9 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, What a great way to start the New Year with a letter to the editor from Reuben Tylor exercising his expression of “free speech”.
'I am a Demo'
Wednesday 9 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This is for the record.
No tuna in 10 trips in 2 months
Tuesday 8 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I first wrote to this newspaper 18 months ago telling of my concern at the damage being done by foreign boats to our fishing resource.
Political staff are blowing it
Tuesday 8 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A recent article concerning “...the growing legions of political staffers has led increasingly to poor policy that hurts the nation economically....” featured prominently in one of Australia’s largest newspapers.
Direct your complaints to the right people
Monday 7 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is a concern when the prime minister announces that he “is satisfied with the integrity of due process” (CINews, 29/12/2012) in relation to the termination of my employment.
A new tax income threshold?
Saturday 5 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Most public servants take home pay well below $37,000 and struggle to feed and clothe an average household of three adults and three children.
Taking exception to misguided opinion
Saturday 5 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I must take exception to the misguided opinion by smoke signaler ‘Fly in experts’ on January 3 unless you can explain which part of our cultural sensitivity has to do with, engineering, logistics, project design and finance when you are spending someone else’s aid money? Especially when on the opposite page our auditor reports – $45,000 unaccounted for in constituency fund; only one school provided audited statements from the eight schools requested; CIIC did not return $ 79,000 of unspent funds; MFEM over funded the environment fund by $62,000 etc, and we still cannot balance the country’s books from 2009.
Carter for PM
Thursday 3 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The speed in which New Zealand’s High Commissioner John Carter fixes problems here in this country that seem so difficult for our own politicians to tackle is astounding and a blessing to say the least.
Water for life?
Thursday 3 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On New Year’s Eve I was at a bar and asked for a glass of water.
Impressed with your MPs!
Thursday 3 January 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Having arrived here from British Columbia, Canada, on December 10, I was fortunate enough to hear the parliamentary proceedings on our bungalow’s radio.
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