Letters to the Editor
We're too negative and too critical
Saturday 17 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read the smoke signals the other day in which someone wrote in complaining about the appointment of Russell Thomas as the new PSC Commissioner and how there must have been more qualified applicants than he and the whole thing wreaked of political favouritism. I just wanted to air my personal views on […]
'Employers have rights too'
Friday 16 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was told by a local businessman the other morning that – Employers have rights too – in fact employees seem to have more rights. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this comment – it is a shared view of many businesses in the Cook Islands. Other comments about employees include – […]
Female public servants are 'culprits' in the work force
Thursday 15 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, After reading Lynnsay Francis’s article and former public servant’s letter to the editor, it made me bold to express my views as a public servant at one stage who has witnessed how female public servants are treated to make way for male employees. These are males that have been promised a job at […]
Women bullied in the public service
Thursday 15 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to former public servant – you may not realise it, but you’ve just made a difference – you had the courage of your convictions to write a letter to share your experiences, and it is through sharing those experiences that we can make a difference. Your letter highlights the importance of […]
Female public servants have no real redress
Wednesday 14 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Well and good for advocates like Lynnsay Francis (March 12) to claim that women employees have avenues to redress their employment issues – if only that were true. It is not true if you are a female public servant. The reality is, when all other avenues are exhausted, who, with their public servant’s […]
Women must challenge unfair treatment
Tuesday 13 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In a conversation with a friend last Friday, I was told that a person had called me a “troublemaker and that I should mind my own business”. My response was, “I’m a women’s human rights defender and “that’s exactly what I’m doing – defending the rights of women”. We celebrated international women’s day […]
Road rough
Tuesday 13 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, While out riding my bicycle on Saturday afternoon, I decided, with much anticipation, to check out the new tar sealed section of road by the airport. What a disappointment. I thought I’d be riding on a smooth hot mix machine laid surface the likes of in front of Ocean Fresh and Panama petrol […]
Stallholders are looking unhappy
Saturday 10 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, People are disgruntled with what’s going on at the Punanga Nui market – fees, tree chopping, repositioning of stalls (with complaints of favouritism, ie best/roadfront positions being reserved for family members of those at BTIB), etc. The stallholders are looking more unhappy than usual. Two remarked to this customer that the removal of […]
New law favours banks
Saturday 10 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This letter is to caution the public about the dangers of allowing the Judicature Amendment Bill which proposes to favour banks and other creditors in their bid to make defaulting borrowers make good on their loans. Not sure what to make of that reasoning considering banks do not need our help or anyone […]
Call to share the love
Saturday 10 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I wish to convey my disappointment with the organisers and local representatives of the recent French tourist ship that recently visited Aitutaki on Wednesday March 7. My frustration relates to the appointment of the sole lagoon cruise operator ‘Bishops Lagoon Cruises’ who probably ended the day with thousands of dollars in their pockets. […]
Maara mai ia matou te pa enua i vao
Friday 9 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
E te Etita, Kia orana i te aroa nui rava, atupaka, ngao o te Atua. Please tuku atu koe i teia reta naku ki roto i taau nutipepa. Te tata atu nei au i toku tangi, akaaroa i te iti tangata i te pa enua i vao ake ia Rarotonga, no runga i teia tu […]
A disaster waiting to happen
Thursday 8 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am no expert, no one really is, when it comes to these types of issues, one only needs to use one’s experience with observing similar issues to see and be concerned about the bad planning and development occurring at the Avatiu wharf area. Apart from the potential hazards of the rock slope/wall […]
Focus on the more serious crimes
Thursday 8 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In late January this year a female living in Matavera was viciously assaulted by an intruder in her home. Although the victim of this vicious assault was hospitalised for a few days and the police were immediately called in to investigate what was clearly a home invasion of terrible consequences, the victim was […]
'That is a whole lot of taxes'
Wednesday 7 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thank you for the opportunity to bring this to the attention of all. It seems that we mostly overlook the situation and as obedient citizens just work and pay the outcome of our tax return at the end. These are tough times and with mortgages to pay, one has to look for other […]
LA flight gives us more time in Raro
Tuesday 6 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My wife and I have visited the Cook Islands four times now. We are due to do so again this year. We fly from San Francisco, and had to fly through New Zealand (my home) the first couple of times. That route meant we spent less time in the Islands, as we split […]
Rock wall requires urgent answers
Tuesday 6 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The ongoing debate about the merit and demerits of this Avatiu wharf structure needs some urgent decisions because the country must ask this critical question: Can we afford to render at least a third of the Avatiu harbour useless by building this rock wall? Surely if the rock wall is there purely because […]
Cry from the heart for super
Tuesday 6 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, From 2003 to 2011 I cared for my mum here on Rarotonga. She is 91 now and has for some years needed 24 hour care. The half-entitlement that she got of her NZ superannuation was never enough to allow me to stay home with her 24 hours and still feed my family. And […]
Govt should take a firm stand
Tuesday 6 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I clap my hands for the Hon. Winston Peters whose position was reported in your front page story of Saturday’s issue headed ‘Winston Peters backs retirees’. He stated he will be looking into this problem with superannuation and taking it up in the appropriate place, either in the house or at the select […]
Rock wall design is flawed
Monday 5 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Neither Ports Authority nor the Beca Project Manager has addressed the main points of my letters about the rock wall at Avatiu. Given the faulty materials being used and the distinct dangers that could be presented by this rock wall, there has been no EIA presented by NES for public perusal containing the […]
Crunch comes, rabbit runs
Saturday 3 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read this morning with utter disgust the manner in which the New Zealand government has treated the plight of Vietman war veteran Bill Framhein. Bill is an injured Cook Islander being forced to live only half a year in the Cook Islands and the other half in New Zealand hundreds of miles […]
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