Letters to the Editor
Disadvantaged
Monday 17 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing regarding articles in your paper of the last few weeks. To assist in getting my point across, I will mention a story about a bank’s ATM money machine which dispensed cash in error, issuing $100 notes and debiting someone else’s account by mistake, one customer realised this and went each […]
Singing undermines position of PM
Monday 17 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate the government for taking the initiative to host the Forum this year. The exposure that this event has generated especially with the visit by Hillary Clinton will have tremendous spin-off effects for the Cook Islands. The only setback I saw was when our prime minister sang at the […]
'Man in glass house throws stone'
Monday 17 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is perhaps unsurprising and to be expected that a payer of import levies might protest on finding a competitor had paid less on imported soft drinks than he had, even though the lower payments were within the law. However, I don’t think any of us expected that anyone, speaking for someone who […]
Rethink marine park's location
Saturday 15 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’ve been watching a documentary on CITV and reading articles in CINews on the proposed Cook Islands Marine Park, and I wanted to share my thoughts regarding this. Although I strongly support the idea of establishing this park in the Cook Islands, for some reason, the way we are going about it just […]
Sounds dodgy
Saturday 15 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To ‘Real Non Nikao SFC Supporter’, are you really going to taint Stephen Willis’ name in the national paper over a bloody soccer match! Firstly, any dignified person giving an example of the indiscretion would have merely stated ‘Tupapa Player’ and ‘Nikao Player’ in their description of events. Sounds a little dodgy to […]
Back roads awful
Saturday 15 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a person who lives inland on Rarotonga, I have never seen the conditions of the back roads in such an awful state. Huge crater-like potholes that are not only very damaging to motor vehicles but, more importantly, dangerous to motorists. I know of at least five persons who have come off the […]
Cola Gate – 'another rip off'
Saturday 15 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I would like to add my support to the concerns raised by Mr James Beer recently in the Cook Islands News regarding CITC’s special arrangement with its imports since 1980s. I would even go as far as saying that there appears to be a “rip off” of sorts that was occurring from the […]
3 beautiful goals were scored
Friday 14 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Oh my gosh! It seems to me that Non Nikao SFC Supporter is still crying and hurting after Saturday’s soccer match between Tupapa and Nikao. What surprised me is this, this person claims to be a non-Nikao supporter and yet he/she seems to know the players’ names that played on the field, SURPRISE, […]
Why we feel we've come home
Friday 14 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I picked up my sister and her man from the airport on Sunday night. I’d got them each an ei and it was lovely to see them marvel and luxuriate in the fragrance and beauty of the waxy gardenias and fine, delicate tiare. I remember the time I was first garlanded with an […]
Inspired to protect our natural assets
Thursday 13 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a long time resident of Rarotonga , and actively involved in the environmental scene in the Cook Islands, I want to congratulate John Woods and the staff of CINews for the wonderfully supportive and informative reporting on bringing the public’s attention to many issues affecting the future of the Cook Islands through […]
Was it poor refereeing or match fixing?
Thursday 13 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I make reference to semi retired soccer fan’s concern for the ‘terrible refereeing’ at the Nikao/Tupapa soccer match last Saturday and I totally agree with him. I am also a retired soccer player and know the rules of the game reasonably well. There were serious offences committed by Tupapa players that were not […]
Feeble excuse
Thursday 13 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, One of the expected benefits of having spent $24m or so upgrading Avatiu harbour is to enable its use by larger vessels, resulting (hopefully) in lower freight rates. But until we have enough inward cargo to fill these larger ships, they will obviously seek cargo for other ports, as has happened in the […]
No one realised it was 'poorly worded'?
Thursday 13 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The pen is mightier than the sword. In this case it should probably read: the printing press is mightier than the devious schemes of government. Thanks to you, CINews, for your full covering of the news. We have heard of the cunning and devious schemes the minister (Mark Brown) and his executive of […]
Stand proud
Wednesday 12 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I wish to publicly pass on my sincere congratulations to the Honourable Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, his Government and all the people of the Cook Islands on the way in which they managed through the recent Pacific Forum. It was an outstanding success. From the Prime Minister of New Zealand the […]
Don't blame ship delay
Wednesday 12 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Brett Porter’s reported efforts (CINews September 11) to blame delayed arrival of a ship for a recent fuel shortage on Rarotonga ignore the facts, and are a transparent attempt to shift responsibility for Toa’s own lack of inventory management. Contrary to his quoted comments, Southern Reef was only four days behind her published […]
'Terrible refereeing' allegation answered
Wednesday 12 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’m a semi-retired sportsman who enjoys watching local matches and most televised sports programmes. Last Saturday I watched an exciting football match between Tupapa and Nikao that eventually went Tupapa’s way. Congratulations Tupapa. I also overheard from a nearby group that Tupapa had flown in three Manukau City FC players particularly for this […]
Another white elephant in the distance
Tuesday 11 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It’s bloody shocking that government is digging the people of the Cook Islands a deeper grave. Now they’re thinking of doing up the drinking water here in Rarotonga and all we have is reservoirs but last week didn’t Pukapuka receive a solar water distilling plant turning over 250 litres of saltwater into fresh […]
Forum coordinator responds to criticism
Tuesday 11 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have had comments by the Leader of the Opposition regarding invitations to Forum events and his suggestion that there may have been bias against himself and Opposition MPs, drawn to my attention. I wish to state categorically that neither I, nor my immediate coordination staff, have acted in any political matter whatsoever […]
What's the Forum booze bill?
Thursday 6 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A smoke signaller writes: “Now that the Forum is finally over, could the government show the taxpayers of this country the final booze and food bill paid to entertain all the overseas and local guests who lavished every night here and in Aitutaki. Looking at Monday’s front page photo ‘Forum dance off’ shows that most […]
Be the paradise we are proud of
Thursday 6 September 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a crew member aboard Vaka Marumaru Atua, I have seen and experienced terrible crimes against nature as we voyaged across our Pacific Ocean carrying our Cook Islands legacy. Manmade plastics and pollution choking our oceans; unsustainable and indiscriminate fishing pillaging our sea stocks; cruel and wasteful shark finning….and worst of all….we have […]
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