Letters to the Editor
Appalled, disgusted, angry
Tuesday 14 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am appalled, disgusted and angry at the way Henry Puna and Teariki Heather handled and treated my people from the Tongareva and Pukapuka Tere Parties. The unfairness and downgraded attitude towards my people are summed up below: 1. When these Tere Parties were about to depart their individual islands, they were informed […]
Cheap shot at Olympians not appreciated
Tuesday 14 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor You have a regular correspondent in your paper who writes behind various nom-de-plumes, but with the same vitriolic poison, attacking the Olympic team and singling out myself, the Chef de Mission George George and Secretary-general Rosie Blake for personal attacks. In the latest smoke signals column this person is scathing in their attack […]
Tax could damage tourism
Monday 13 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am rather disturbed at the Minister of Finance’s increase in the tax on all drinks, which include soft drinks and alcohol. It is important we recognise the role of the tourism industry in stimulating economic growth and jobs, while avoiding unproductive knee-jerk hikes at a time of economic and financial crisis. Tourism […]
Supporting a worthy cause
Monday 13 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I want to comment on how people have viewed the VIP treatment during the Constitution celebrations. We are not a rich family, nor do we own a business. My husband and I both work hard for our money, and decided that we would help this worthy cause. My family went to the auditorium […]
Conference attendance voted on
Saturday 11 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With reluctance, I write to correct the mis-statement by the Leader of the Opposition about my membership of the Democratic Party being revoked yesterday. First the issue discussed at this special meeting was to decide whether I will be admitted into the Demo caucus pursuant to article 4(e) of the party constitution. Secondly, […]
Clarification of Demo vote
Saturday 11 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write regarding the exactitude of the decision of the meeting of the Democratic Party Executive held on Wednesday night, August 8 2012. The resolution of the meeting did not reject Mr George’s membership of the party. The resolution rejected Mr George’s admission to the conference by 32 to 6 votes in the […]
Apology to Ryan Kelly
Tuesday 7 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, After several attempts to have a correction put into the paper, I am writing this to say that there have been two reports – both wrong – about me in the court news of CINews in the last two weeks. In the first report it said that I pleaded guilty to causing an […]
'Go. Local' and just leave?
Tuesday 7 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With regard to some of the views expressed by Mike Tavioni in your issue of August 1, I would like to highlight another ongoing issue involving the Tourism Corporation in regards to overseas film crews and photographers working in the Cook Islands. For local video producers and photographers it is disappointing to see […]
Show the love
Tuesday 7 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was really excited watching the Olympics and seeing two world records being broken in a row right after each other. This was for the quick snatch weightlifting. What annoyed me though was the Colombian man when he went for his final lift the commentators were saying he’s received medals in all his […]
Rarotonga, we have a problem
Tuesday 7 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
”I was in court last Thursday observing the proceedings,“ a smoke signaller writes. ”The majority of cases were youth up for a variety of charges, mostly burglary. One young thug with slouching arms folded across his chest, eyes rolling towards the ceiling with a ‘devil may care’ attitude was discharged without conviction for breaking his […]
Sentences over the top
Saturday 4 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This is a response to the letter by ‘Justice for all’. I am disappointed the writer chose to make reference regarding the parents and even extended family members of the recently sentenced Giovanni Masters and Inano Matapo. The ‘fuss’ being made over the sentences is in relation to the extremely high terms of […]
Samoan insights
Saturday 4 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, ”Even the blind man can still see.“ This is the caption written by my son Tamarii (T2) on one of the art pieces that he did while he was still a student at Tereora College. The art piece itself depicts his fierce pride in his twin heritage of being a Cook Islander and […]
Congratulations to commissioner
Saturday 4 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Commissioner of Police for having the guts to deal with corruption in his police force and drug taking and drug dealing in our country. Commissioners have come and gone. I am sure they knew what was going down but chose to do nothing by putting this problem in the ‘too […]
Loss of Beattie 'a great shame'
Saturday 4 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The sudden loss of CEO Carmel Beattie from Cook Islands Tourism last week should raise many questions. When Carmel Beattie first came to Atiu with her team she arrived to a very sceptical tourism community that sat in the meeting with folded arms, eyes on the floor with a mind set of ‘here […]
'Height of naivety, below the belt'
Saturday 4 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I would not normally respond to such an article as that written by ‘And Justice For All’ published in your column in the August 2 issue. Much as I support the rights of people to free expression, I am saddened by your writer’s totally erroneous insinuations. In this instance, I can only speak […]
What a joke
Saturday 4 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am a rheumatism sufferer and I have been planting marijuana for the last 10 or more years and my whole neighbourhood knows about my little garden. My late wife looks after my garden because my plants are kept at her undercover grave and it is kept alight every night. Marijuana don’t like […]
Tangata ngakau tamanamanta
Friday 3 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia Orana e Tama, Te tatau nei au ma te marekakore i te manako o Norman George e tona au turuturu kia riro koia te arataki o taku party te Democratic Party. Kare ai nei ko teia Tangata, e mema aia no te Cook Islands Party, e kua tu aia I raro ake I te […]
'I'm a Demo'
Friday 3 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I will put my case to the public for the last time and will no longer respond to further comments. (a) There is no such law in existence as the law against party hopping. (b) The law being mistaken for it, section 105 of the 2007 Electoral Amendment Act covers 3 things: 1. […]
Allegations answered
Thursday 2 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the news item in yesterday’s CINews wherein the Leader of the Opposition and MP for Penrhyn Wilkie Rasmussen was reported to have made a number of allegations regarding the payment made by the Cook Islands Pearl Authority (CIPA) to the Manihiki Island culture group. I wish to provide the following […]
Papa'a judges the problem
Thursday 2 August 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your letter writer calling for an end to ”foreign“ Judges sitting in the High Court of the Cook Islands is certainly a topic that needs debate. The problem however is not ”foreign“ Judges but Papa’a Judges. We are privileged to have two Land Division Judges who, when not sitting here, sit on the […]
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