Letters to the Editor
When will the incompetence end?
Thursday 21 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor The article in CI News 20 July regarding Bartercard (Bartercard not foreign enterprise) concludes: In the past few months New Zealand company representatives have spent time on Rarotonga soliciting business and signing new clients. That sure sounds like carrying on business in the Cook Islands to me. The article refers to BTIBs chief […]
Upgrade suspicious
Thursday 21 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I smell a rat with the proposed upgrade of the Tereora field to cater for a one-off rugby league game. Usually teams from overseas visiting the islands are bound to put up with the conditions offering. But apparently some advance travelling league expert has deemed the Tereora field unplayable. Strewth, it has plenty […]
Receptionist embodies Cook Islands hospitality
Tuesday 19 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Here is praise for a very cooperative receptionist. Tourists of Cook Islands descent from Whakatane were photographing from our million dollar view in Muri. The little girl dropped her camera. Two calls to Edgewater to tell the tourists where their camera was brought negative response: They needed the tourists surname which I did […]
Is this a stalling tactic?
Tuesday 19 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With all the articles in previous months newspapers regarding the Public Services Commissioner and his private dealings with fishing licences while working as a civil servant, can the Prime Minister explain why he hasnt suspended Navy Epati while an investigation is being conducted by the Cook Islands Police and Financial Intelligence Unit? The […]
What will it take?
Monday 18 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I just want to ask a question to the Government about what have they done to improve the black spot accident-prone area on the Nikao back road that claimed another life. I believe this black spot has claimed so many lives in the past and to this day nothing has been done to […]
Your truth is not ours
Monday 18 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Just to ask Ewan a question – does he mean that we the descendants of Te Pa Atua Kino are papaa – not tangata enua of Tumu Te Varovaro? The years of the Boobah was written by papaa, that was an assumption he wrote of who we are as Cook Islanders. Ewan, Ive […]
Donation appreciated
Monday 18 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor May I, through your newspaper, offer my thanks to the people of Aitutaki for their kind donation of many thousands of dollars to our earthquake fund. As someone resident in the middle of the disaster it is comforting and heartening to know that folk far away from our problems are concerned enough about […]
Too much noise for Sunday
Monday 18 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor I am a little peeved off today after losing valuable sleep thanks to party goers during the wee hours of Sunday morning. When I woke up at 2am I heard the thumping of an entertainment system combined with excessive noise from the people themselves. So I decided to call the police to alert […]
Little hope for energy goals
Saturday 16 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Prime Ministers plans to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2020, and 50 percent by 2015, make interesting reading (PM wants 100% renewable energy by 2020 published July 7), given that there is apparently very little hope of them being realised. This applies even disregarding all the other energy requirements beside the […]
Puzzled
Saturday 16 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, There seems to be some misinformed or inaccurate information coming from the Minister of Finance relating to the newly introduced 15 percent tax on interest Firstly he says he met with the Bankers Association and they seemed supportive of the idea. Then we see a total rebuttal from the bankers. Then the Minister […]
Word of unsafe Rarotonga spreading
Saturday 16 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, For years I have been telling anyone interested in a beautiful vacation that is free of beach sellers, traffic lights or hassles to visit the Cook Islands. I have made the trip from Canada several times and will continue to do so. I can tell you that the last 12 couples I mentioned […]
Tourists visit to meet Cook Islanders
Saturday 16 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On Monday, I bought my favourite newspaper and looked at the bottom of the front page after looking at the beautiful ladies in the picture to find a story saying CI workers lazy. Its funny to say in the last elections the man making this claim was running to become prime minister. How […]
Punanga Tauturu frustrated over delays
Saturday 16 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Delays to the acceptance by parliament of the Employment Relations Bill is frustrating and disempowering for the workers of this country. While Punanga Tauturu has been focusing on the inclusion of paid maternity leave for private sector workers there are other aspects of the bill that need passing by parliament, such as mechanisms […]
Company tax exchanged for withholding tax
Saturday 16 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that this tax is not going to earn $1.3 million dollars of fresh government income. Sure, there will be somewhere between $400,000 and $800,000 of withholding tax from interest (I stress interest and not dividend withholding tax ). But it will be well under […]
Sentence a slap on the wrist
Friday 15 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing in regards to an article that was in the paper on Monday July 11 Schoolgirl sentenced for assault. I am the 17-year-old complainant in question and I would like to clarify some errors made in the article and make it clear that I was not at all intoxicated and I […]
Looking for Browns advice
Friday 15 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Mark Brown, for many years I have had little faith in the elected governments and their constant lack of consideration towards overly excessive spending, which to most normal thinking people cannot be justified. We have to pay for it and yet have no say in it. I voted for you Mark, not the […]
Tax will hit the wealthy, not the poor
Thursday 14 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, May I throw in my pennys worth on the current controversy about Minister Mark Browns 15 percent tax on interest on savings? It seems to me that 15 percent tax on interest on deposits is not much, only 0.75 percent for deposits earning, say, 5 percent interest. It also seems to me that […]
Opportunity to make money being ignored
Thursday 14 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With all this talk about taxing the poor peoples savings in an unthinking bid to get more money, maybe the Government should try looking in another direction. There is work being done at Avatiu harbour that the EIA says is going to produce: 150,000 cub mtrs of dredged coral sand and rubble (with […]
Tourism industry deserves better
Thursday 14 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write regarding the tourism awards speakers. I will be interested as to what the Rugby World Cup Chief executive might speak on and contribute to Cook Islands Tourism given that his RWC is budgeted to lose around forty million New Zealand taxpayers dollars and growing daily. The International Rugby Board holds total […]
Locals are hard workers
Wednesday 13 July 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My mother would talk at length when we were children about how hard they worked as growers and owners of crops and plantations. They would work from early in the morning till sometimes late in the evening. Despite them moving to New Zealand as many did they continued with this same work ethic […]
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