Letters to the Editor
Try bicycle helmets
Monday 16 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding helmets, I’m a life-long motorcyclist, helmet advocate (with good reason – I’ve seen what happens without one) and have visited Rarotonga five times. I’ve tried to wear a full helmet there but the heat and humidity do spoil the fun. Last time out my wife and I tried good quality bicycle helmets […]
National pride takes a hit
Saturday 14 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a company in Rarotonga whose primary focus is to establish creative music, festival, and film and TV opportunities, the recent coverage and responses from the community regarding the lack of planning by the Ministry of Culture to have the Cook Islands represented at the 11th South Pacific Arts Festival in Honiara, has […]
Sad tikae
Saturday 14 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Ko au teia ko John Lindsay. I am really saddened to read on the news that there was no Cook Islands contingent representing the country at Honiara’s Festival of Pacific Arts. Te kino ua atu nei teia e tupu nei te Pasireia. Te vai nei te au aito o te carving, tui tivaevae, […]
Just a real shame we were absent
Saturday 14 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last night on CITV the closing ceremony for the 11th Pacific Festival of Arts took place in the Solomon Islands. Twenty-two countries and territories from around the Pacific attended this amazing two-week event. Sadly, however, it seemed that the Cook Islands was one of the few not to participate. Pitcairn Island, with a […]
Government should be 'deeply ashamed'
Saturday 14 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The decision by government to not send a cultural delegation to participate and represent the Cook Islands in this year’s Pacific Festival of Arts in the Solomon Islands is disgraceful to say the least and reeks of arrogance and snobbery on the part of the Henry Puna-led government. The no-show to what is […]
Ui Ariki genealogy details are wrong
Friday 13 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to your Cook Islands News of Saturday July 7, page 10, where old photos of some of our Ui Ariki were displayed. Just to set the record straight, the caption under one of the photos stating that Rangi Makea is the grandfather of Makea Daniela Vakatini is completely incorrect. Makea Daniela […]
Doing the nation a disservice
Friday 13 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are saddened by the lack of vision and foresight of some individuals who have not understood their duties and the broadness of its scope to protect our cultural heritage within the ministry of culture and its attendant governments. The ministry, from its early developmental stage, now has veered from a pathway clearly […]
Buck your ideas up
Friday 13 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reading this morning’s Cook Islands News it is unbelievable that an ex-manageress Rosie Blake has been appointed to chair the committee overseeing the Punanga Nui. I challenge those who made the decision. This is a modern age and we need new ways of thinking and deciding what to do. Sorry Rosie, I am […]
MPs, take a pay cut, lead by example
Friday 13 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read an interesting article recently headed ”French Government takes pay cut and fights for growth in Europe“. The first item on the agenda was a 30 percent pay cut for the President and Ministers. The sizeable wage reduction was endorsed at a first meeting of the 34-minister team. It was described as […]
Disband 'phantom' committee and start again
Friday 13 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Prior to the 1st July 2012, the ‘official handover date’ of the Punanga Nui Market from Minister Mark Brown, BTIB, to the new Ministry of Agriculture and Minister Nandi Glassie, the above committee was already in the process of being selected, by the chairperson, appointed by the PM, without the knowledge of the […]
Show independence
Thursday 12 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Pacific Arts Festival is a very important event for artists and traditional arts and it would have been wonderful if the Cook Islands could have participated. The official reason is that the Ministry of Cultural Development did not have the budget to do so having expended it on the Queen Elizabeth II […]
Nothing has changed
Thursday 12 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The passing of government’s budget has come and gone and we ask, what real changes are there for our people? The cost of goods has gone up, the cost of fuel, power and cost of living is still high, so nothing has changed. The weekly wages are still the same but I will […]
Dogs and helmets
Thursday 12 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Here is a small poem written to reflect how far the government have not moved on the helmet issue. It is called DOGS & HELMETS On their scooter were Jack and Jill. You know how the how the story goes; Jack fell down and broke his crown, A Mutt on the road some […]
Sadness, shame and humiliation
Thursday 12 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was emotionally moved reading Marumarua Atua’s account of their silent welcome in Honiara. I’ve been in a similar situation where I know exactly how our warriors feel when they arrive there to find no welcome from their own people and to witness all the other vakas being embraced by their own kopu […]
Traveller stopped over tax 'debt'
Thursday 12 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My adopted son flew over to Rarotonga for the burial of his cousin and friend two weeks ago. He was advised while at the check-in at the airport that he was not allowed to fly back to New Zealand due to unpaid tax. To his surprised the date and time given was while […]
Disaster for the market
Tuesday 10 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read with interest the letter in your newspaper that a certain person, an award recipient is/has been appointed to the new board of Punanga Nui Market. What are ”the powers that be“ thinking? This person is involved with CISNOC and if the reading of that fiasco is anything to go by, this […]
'Let down big time by our leaders'
Tuesday 10 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have never met such a stupid government. They even ignored sending a delegation to the Festival of Pacific Arts. Who would ever do that to the people they represent and if it wasn’t for us they wouldn’t even be where they are now running the country. I mean, running, yeah right. I […]
Helmets compulsory at night?
Tuesday 10 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I see the recent late night accidents and subsequent deaths has brought the ‘helmet or not’ argument back to the pages of the Cook Islands News. When I lived on the island in 2002-2004 (and following a tragic motorbike death) this debate was strong then and no doubt the debate has continued since […]
Keep Punanga Nui Market 'honest'
Monday 9 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Can someone please from this Cook Islands Party government explain to the Punanga Nui Market vendors, hut owners, and the general public, why a chairwoman has been appointed to a ‘board’ and who used to be the Punanga Nui manager, who was also forced to leave before a particular audit report was handed […]
Helmets are cool, being dead isn't!
Monday 9 July 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Over here on the ‘Big Island’ aka Australia, the wearing of helmets for both motorcyclists including scooter riders, and cyclists is compulsory. Why? Because put simply, they save lives. A little known fact is that a fall from a pushbike is akin to a force of 60G’s being exerted on the skull. An […]
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