Letters to the Editor
Disappointed
Tuesday 8 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’m writing this letter to show my concern and disappointment with the attitude of the leaders within the Tupapa Maraerenga village towards the Tupapa Maraerenga soccer team. This team is currently overseas representing the Cook Islands and carrying the name of Tupapa Maraerenga but with no acknowledgement not even a small kaikai before […]
Kata is tamer
Tuesday 8 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It would be interesting to know which society “Goose” belongs to, as it obviously isn’t one which allows freedom of speech and to express one’s ideas, a right we enjoy in the Cook Islands including Kata. Goose doesn’t have to look too far to see politicians – MPs, PMs and Presidents – being […]
Not amused
Monday 7 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, KATA’S constant mockery of Cook Islands Prime Minister Hon. Henry Puna via his cartoon column is no longer amusing to me. There was a time when we had a giggle and shrugged it off but this continuous badgering of our nation’s leader is insulting, degrading and demeaning. In another corner of the world […]
Wonderful
Monday 7 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Isn’t it wonderful that the climate change people are working on the Mangaia harbour. (reference many adverts on radio and TV). This is clearly an overseas funded project. So we can pull our workers, overseers, and engineers off the job and leave them to it. The sky is the limit when you think […]
Thanks, George
Monday 7 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I wish to offer my acknowledgement to our member of parliament George Maggie for the wonderful activities he has done so far in our village of Tupapa and Maraerenga. Now we have a new water system installed and everyone is more than happy to utilise it. Thank you also to the NZ High […]
Enforce contracts
Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read in yesterday’s paper of the situation at Titikaveka College and my heart really ‘bleeds’ for them as they have to deal with a teacher shortage. I think we do suffer a skills shortage across the board in most professions here in the Cook Islands and feel that there is an easy […]
Long live press freedom!
Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Congratulations to your reporters Eric Parnis and Rachel Reeves for their insightful World Press Freedom Day articles highlighting the fact that press freedom is every citizen’s right. However, it’s disturbing to read that the flow of information is not so free in the Cook Islands as we are entitled to expect. I must […]
Saddened
Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As I prepare to leave the Cook Islands, I am saddened by my time in Rarotonga. I fell in love again with Pukapuka, but am left disappointed by my experience here. As I wrote in previous letters, a lot of my valuable belongings were stolen by an identifiable suspect. After three weeks of […]
'Fabrication and exaggeration'
Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The way some people write about and run Norman George down, got me fuming in disappointment because of the total fabrication and exaggeration of facts. I know a lot of people only see Norm from a distance, hear him on radio or see him on television, but never take the time to sit […]
Growing list of national problems
Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To see our political leaders falling over themselves to attend global talkfests when the most immediate problems they should be dealing with are here in this country is disgraceful. Clamoring on jets at every opportunity to zoom off to far away, exotic destinations are certainly not going to help solve the country’s problems. […]
Staffing problems at Titikaveka college
Friday 4 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The other day I was greatly disturbed to learn that the Ministry of Education had failed thus far to recruit permanent teachers for Titikaveka college so as to replace those teachers who are filling in on a temporary basis. I believe that this problem has been ongoing since the beginning of the school […]
Olympic jokes keep coming
Friday 4 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, While your cartoons of Hagar and the Phantom raise a smile, and Kata is world class, nothing beats the ongoing circus of the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC). Excuses, arguments over procedures and responsibilities, awards to the secretary general, funding for sports not even played in the Cook Islands for […]
No mischief
Tuesday 1 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The recent publicity of the stance of the Liquor licensing Authority that liquor on display in shops must be locked outside the selling hours of the liquor is a good example why the private sector dislikes having to deal with “the government”. CITC Supermarket and Foodland are authorised to sell liquor from 9 […]
Norman just out of hybernation
Tuesday 1 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As Kata correctly pointed out (Saturday April 28 CINews), What has Norman done for Atiu in 29 years as MP? Answer, absolutely nothing. Wait, no he did start something, yes, the $800,000.00 incomplete road sealing for Atiu, what a cost for only six kilometres of road, while drums of tar rusted away at […]
How times change!
Monday 30 April 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I would like to comment on the photo of the young dancer Te iti O te Ra which accompanied last week’s Churchtalk article on the nine fruits of the spirit by the Rev. Papa Aratangi of the Nikao Ekalesia. I could feel missionaries like Williams, the Gills and the Rev Buzacott “turn in […]
Land clearing will pollute lagoon
Monday 30 April 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I thought it was fairly well known that the worst pollution of our precious lagoon happened when there was heavy rain which washed out creeks (and overflowing septic tanks) making unsightly and, more to the point, unhealthy brown stains in the areas of the lagoon where this filthy water ended up. A few […]
Focus on training
Monday 30 April 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Once again, I have read in your newspaper regarding the tightening up of warrant of fitness regulations. While all this is well and good, I wonder if the appropriate measures are targeting the right area. It would be interesting to know how many of our road accidents are caused by unsafe vehicles, because […]
'Little people, be very afraid'
Monday 30 April 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With reference to the article (April 28, 2012), entitled It’s about iti tangata. What a one-sided and unfair treatment, especially with reference to the Mauke case cited. Anonymous ‘local lawyer’ doesn’t seem to know the difference between iti tangata and ‘little people’ (tangata rikiriki). Iti tangata is the general populace (including banks and […]
Wake up, MPs!
Friday 27 April 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The departure tax crisis is certainly hurting our visitors and also our mamas and papas travelling to NZ for medical check-ups. Why don’t the members of parliament whom we elected do something about it and reduce it to at least $35 or $40. Wake up, don’t go to sleep on your salaries! I […]
Major reform and innovation vital
Friday 27 April 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read with interest about the Minister of Finance Mark Brown looking at the effects of depopulation, expanding the economy etc, and the impact of interest rates. I suggest that unfortunately as much as we would all love lower rates, perhaps that isn’t an option due to the size of the Cooks economy […]
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