Letters to the Editor
Letter: Vaimaanga backroad ‘disruption’
Friday 28 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, While amazed with the speed in which Sonny Williams, new MP for Titikaveka tackled the Vaimaanga backroad project, what he succeeded the most was to upset the landowners.
Letter: Continuing inflation . . .
Thursday 20 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
KiaOrana, Cook Islands News front page item, 18 April 2023 refers…TAU can try whatever sidestep they want to, trying to suggest that those fuel increases were continuing to affect power rates in Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Letter: Delay in court hearing
Monday 17 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Leave it to Norman George to be so inconvenienced from having to wait for a Family Court hearing called at short notice to hear an urgent application for protection orders for a Cook Islands woman.
Letter: Decriminalising homosexuality
Monday 17 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Saturday’s headline, “We have made history” records two historical events in the Cook Islands.
Letter: Delay in court hearing
Friday 14 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I wish to complain about the poor attitude of the Ministry of Justice in allocating the sittings of the High Court of the Cook Islands.
Letter: Rarotonga roads
Saturday 8 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Big and humungous meitaki maata once again to our road workers for consistently extending nice and smooth hot mixed tarsealed roads, the longest and farthest so far, especially from as far as Avana and fast passing Tupapa Super Brown.
Letter: Selling seabed mining story
Saturday 8 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Wednesday’s headline, “Prime Minister sells the United States a seabed mining story.”
Letter: Search for truth and justice
Thursday 6 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Lissette Gonzalez Brito disappeared seven years ago and for all that time, I have fought tooth and nail to get her justice.
Letter: ‘Please be better, read situations better’
Wednesday 5 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Kia Orana editor, I hope this letter finds you well, I would like to bring to light a couple of issues I experienced while being treated at Tupapa Outpatients on March 15.
Visitors to our paradise
Monday 3 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Kia Orana, I hope this email finds you well. I would like to voice my impassioned opinion to our visitors to our beautiful paradise and hope it gets published.
The turtle tour debate
Monday 3 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, The “overcrowded” swim-with-turtles debate currently on is, this writer suggests, a microcosm of this country’s decades-long inability to come to grips with tourism in general.
Three questions for NES
Saturday 1 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
From time to time we see that the National Environment Service is looking to add new staff positions. Looking for three at the moment.
‘A man overboard’: Titikaveka Bulldogs clears air on coach
Saturday 1 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Regarding your article in Tuesday, March 28 edition – Titikaveka Bulldogs coach steps down, I can confirm that Mr (Meti) Noovao has surprised the whole club including myself, he didn’t have the decency to advise me that he was to step down, yet he lives two houses away from me.
Letter: ICI confirms $90,000 spent on Apii Takitumu ‘Guardrail Fence’
Thursday 30 March 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The stupid answers and justifications by various bureaucrats with regards to the ridiculous guardrail at Takitumu School, is in itself an insult to the public and the taxpayer.
Letter: Best by date products
Monday 27 March 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Re Labour and Consumer division at Ministry of Internal Affairs. Does this still exist?
Letter: What is there to celebrate?
Monday 27 March 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Thomas Tarurongo Wynne’s opinion piece in Saturday’s newspaper brings us all face to face with what some might say is the total failure of this society to embrace the Christianity that we are about to celebrate the 200th anniversary of (Ten years of abuse and no one knew? Cook Islands News, March 25).
LETTER: Investing in education
Thursday 23 March 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Increasing the budget when there is no money for such an expense is not the only option (College faces financial difficulties, March 20).
LETTER TO EDITOR: ‘Dump your wastewater elsewhere’
Wednesday 22 March 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I note your article regarding a diplomatic visit from Japan in light of that country’s stated intention to dump its nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. I further note that Japan is bordered by four oceans, two of which comprise significant portions of its EEZ, of which the Pacific Ocean is but one.
LETTER TO EDITOR: SPCA’s Volunteer house in line for an upgrade
Tuesday 21 March 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, National, Opinion
No, need to educate people, there are free de-sexing clinics around the island and it’s not the dogs’ fault. It’s the owners, everyone needs to step up, and not rely on SPCA to take on unwanted dogs, if you want a pup, it’s for life. Not until you get bored with it and want another. […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: ‘We’ve to be cruel to be kind’
Monday 20 March 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. The Saturday feature article on the SPCA shelter at Vaima’anga testifies that there are among us many citizens who do us proud in that respect. But, is it necessary to balance that against present reality? The picture of SPCA president and shelter manager David Pokia tenderly holding newborn pups is heartwarming. The story tells us that Mr Pokia takes 32 dogs each day on a morning stroll. Thirty-two mature dogs needing loving homes. Why would we add two more pups to that number when the chances of ever catching up on the adoption of homeless dogs, we know from years of experience, are pretty much zilch? Shakespeare, as well known to us as Mahatma Gandhi, said words to the effect that, sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind. Allowing more homeless dogs to mature may seem kind, but is it kind to the dozens of mature dogs waiting for a family to adopt? (Name and address supplied)