Letters to the Editor
Congratulations on the marine park process
Tuesday 27 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Government must be congratulated for its efforts in getting all stakeholders together to draft the proposed Marine Park framework and guiding principles. The key to the Marine Park and seabed mining is sustainable development, working with our traditional leaders and community so that we have a voice in this area of potential development. […]
What's the joke?
Monday 26 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In last Friday’s CINews a smoke signaller chastised the National Environment Service for authorising the removal of shrubbery from Takuvaine Stream, finishing off his piece with the statement, “Is Les Priest behind all this?” Why he chose to quote my name in a derogatory context in the media is a mystery beyond my […]
Foreign policy out of control?
Monday 26 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am a big fan of the Cooks and holiday there quite often and I like to follow current events reading the Cook Islands News once a week. Though I am just an outsider from NZ, I have noticed that the Cook Islands’ foreign policy (do they have even a policy or is […]
Dismiss Operation Eagle charges
Monday 26 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last year in March we had an investigation named Operation Eagle, where 13 people were arrested and taken into prison custody. This year in March 2012 a 17-year-old student didn’t even get a conviction and yet she had 613 marijuana seeds in a small container. I always walk past the court house hoping […]
Say no to mining
Monday 26 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It will be a sad day for all Cook Islanders if the government allows seabed mining to go ahead on our beautiful foreshores. Why are we so money hungry, and not caring about our environment. Mining on our seabeds is going to be disastrous for our future generations to come, It’s a sad […]
Cervical cancer screening explained
Monday 26 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As an on-line reader in New Zealand and visiting specialist to The Cook Islands, I was very pleased to see a recent letter from a reader in Australia calling for all Cook Island women to make sure that they have regular cervical smears. However, I feel that I should write to explain why […]
Over-zealous law enforcement
Saturday 24 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I wish to add my voice to others who over the past three months have been closely watching coverage of court proceedings relating to a friend on a charge of possession of a utensil in the Cook Islands. To put it bluntly we have been dismayed at the number of times (at least […]
Law spin
Saturday 24 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The spin sent out by the Law Society raises more issues of due process and remedies available in court. Why are the bankers and lawyers so determined to apply for rulings of contempt of court just so a debtor will pay up an account? There are other avenues in contract law so what […]
Stop rubbishing Raro league clubs
Saturday 24 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, ‘Disgusted Aitutaki’ all sports supporter letter in Thursday newspaper, please get off the backs of the Rarotonga rugby league clubs. Sick and tired of reading their tantrums. All the teams here in Rarotonga are struggling just as much as you are in Aitutaki. You the sharks have only one team to look after, […]
Pension problems still not resolved
Saturday 24 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Mr Geoff Porter, you really have revealed a lot of valuable information on the NZ pension in your letter to the editor. I left Raro to live in NZ in December 2005 aged 62 years after receiving a reply to my letter from the Head Office of WINZ in Wellington that I have […]
Why not subsidise northern flights?
Friday 23 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing to follow-up regarding the $12.5 subsidy to Air New Zealand for flights aimed at increasing tourism. While I laud this effort, I also wonder about encouraging local flights, especially between the Northern Group and Rarotonga. The current lack of regular, affordable transportation is discouraging. To travel from Rarotonga to Pukapuka […]
Not all support
Friday 23 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Please allow me ‘to kill two flies with one stroke’, as the saying goes. Firstly, I disagree with Dick (affectionately known as Dicky) Thomson, as far as his complete disgust is concerned. The Aitutaki Sharks were informed, as we read, two months ago that the Takuvaine Warriors are unable to travel due to […]
Judicature law like David and Goliath
Friday 23 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, If sending letters to the newspaper gets disclosure that the Judicature Amendment Bill really is at the behest of the Bankers’ Association, it is a win for freedom of information. The Law Society would win points if their aim to ‘diffuse legal knowledge’ to the public happened before it goes to Select Committee […]
Batman cashes cheques, flees island
Friday 23 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing in regards to the compendium initiative by the John Batman Group which has polarised the tourism industry. As a small tour operator obviously I am one of those totally opposed to this initiative. Basically this man Jarrod La Canna came to see us, showing a fancy compendium and a list […]
Conflict of interest by lawyers 'absurd'
Thursday 22 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your letter writer ‘Concerned Citizen’ makes absurd the issue of “conflict of interest”. He calls for lawyers on the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Judicature Amendment Bill to step down because in his presumptuous opinion, these lawyers who are also elected Parliamentarians are sponsoring the Bill. He compares it to Justice Wilson who […]
Warriors hit back
Thursday 22 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I would like to respond to the comments made by John Baxter re the Warriors vs. Sharks game. Firstly, John Baxter should get all the facts before making nonsense comments. The Warriors decision not to travel to play the Sharks was tabled two months ago in the CIRL executive meeting and not a […]
Disgusted with Rarotonga teams
Thursday 22 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is with sympathy and rightful support of Aitutaki and our only representative rugby league team the Sharks that I, a long-term resident here, register my complete disgust with insensitive/uncaring and very bad sportsmanship of Rarotonga teams who renage/opt-out at short notice from competing at Aitutaki! Why? You have far more money-earning supporters […]
Law Society clarifies Judicature Bill
Thursday 22 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter to the editor by ‘Concerned Citizen’ appearing in Saturday’s edition of the Cook Islands News March 10 and headed ‘New law favours banks’, as well as information disseminated by the Cook Islands News regarding same. I write to you in my capacity as the President of the Cook […]
Lawyers have a conflict in Judicature Act
Wednesday 21 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I am commenting after reading Monday’s front page of lawyer Tim Arnold and former lawyer Trevor Clarke coming forward with a more moderate or ‘less aggressive’ approach to the principles of the proposed amendment to the Judicature Act. It is especially of interest considering Clarke is one of the most prominent businessmen in […]
Prolonged police process questioned
Wednesday 21 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am concerned at the prolonged process by the authorities in bringing their case to the courts. In particular I refer to a charge against a friend who we know to be an upstanding and intelligent Cook Island citizen; contributing professionally to his country through his work and who has been charged with […]
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