Letters to the Editor
Call for details of Endeavour deal
Wednesday 21 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Without knowing the details of the scope of the current Endeavour offer (not having had the details disclosed), I have seen the 2007 colour brochure that the company handed out at the time. Going on that information, Endeavour wants exclusive rights to the seabed mining rights and any minerals found, with no qualifications. […]
War games wrong, name an insult
Tuesday 20 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write to you in respect of the story entitled ‘Paintball Natives!’ in the weekend section of CINews dated March 3. Firstly, I am disappointed that the Religious Advisory Council has not commented on the introduction of war games by the Celebration on the Rock movement’s Pastor Jonathan Cargill. Secondly, who does Pastor […]
Gender equality remains a key issue
Tuesday 20 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thank you for inviting me to make some comments on the recent letters in your paper referring to women being discriminated upon in our workforce. Women have played a valuable role as independent advocates and activists throughout the growth and history of this country. In 1981, the Cook Islands National Council of Women […]
Take control of your own health
Tuesday 20 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am incredibly disappointed to learn that a person I know who went to the hospital in Rarotonga for a Pap Smear was told she would be too young by the gynaecologist. I want to know why in the world would a medical professional want to stop a young person who is taking […]
The evil side of the Cook Islands
Tuesday 20 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, One of my sons just returned from a South Pacific cruise on a sailing vessel. After the sailing vessel visited the Cook Islands he recommended to his mother and I to go there. I never heard of the Cook Islands so I looked it up on the internet. At first it was refreshing […]
What mechanisms protect local employers?
Monday 19 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My letters over the past few days have brought employment issues of both the employer and employee’s to the fore. Good employees are a key to a business’s success. When employers in the Cook Islands lose a staff member they have trained, they get peeved off when the company down the road offers […]
Don't let the bureaucrats get you
Monday 19 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In reply to the article in last week’s news about the harbourmaster leaving because he is worried about receiving his NZ pension, I don’t blame him. In 2002 I was living in Christchurch and receiving the pension and went to WINZ and told them I was considering going to live in Rarotonga, they […]
The Lost Tribe strikes again
Monday 19 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last week’s reports and letters about the NZ pension emphasise the gross deficiencies in the NZ Superannuation Act as it relates to eligible NZ expats and Cook Islanders living here. Your recent coverage of the dilemma of Bill Framhein, a Cook Islander and Vietnam War veteran who is stuck in an untenable situation […]
Bunglings and lies on NZ pension
Saturday 17 March 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It was with shock and disbelief that I read yet again the bungling and lies that continually come from the various New Zealand governments when in office on the subject of the New Zealand Pension. Your article ‘Harbourmaster quits over NZ pension’ featured in the Thursday issue of the Cook Islands News strongly […]
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 […]
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