Letters to the Editor
LETTERS: Driving along Nikao seawall
Monday 4 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, this road is so smooth and innocent (Police investigating motor vehicle and cyclist crash, Cook Islands News, March 31).
LETTERS: Covid hospitalisation and death
Tuesday 29 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, let’s create an Independent Public Covid Watch Group.
LETTERS: Suspended Deputy PM’s salary
Monday 28 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, extraordinary that Hon. (Robert) Tapaitau is still being paid the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) salary – $137,750! (Additional charges, Cook Islands News 25/3/22).
LETTERS: Govt grant ‘delay frustrating’
Thursday 24 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, it seems that one cannot get it right, you have Sole Trader Grant application on a waiting list that has taken more than three weeks to process, when your application was already submitted on the first of the month.
LETTERS: NZ ‘essential’ for support
Wednesday 23 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, with the arrival of Covid-19 to the Cook Islands, and with it the need for our people to quarantine or to isolate in order to protect others, Government is providing financial support to those who cannot work due to infection or resident in the same households.
LETTERS: Reduction in welfare packages
Tuesday 22 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, it was disheartening to hear on the radio talk back show on March 18, 2022 from TMO (Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health) staff and other agencies that the welfare packages that was issued to Covid-19 affected homes was reduced by the governing agencies.
LETTERS: 'Reopen Pa Enua borders'
Monday 21 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, why is the rest of the Pa Enua closed except Aitutaki?
LETTERS: Animal rights and welfare
Friday 18 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, following some time of having my neighbour’s piglets digging up my gardens and yard on a daily basis (a yearly event) I approached said neighbour – a good bloke and quietly and politely requested that he please contain his piglets on his own property.
LETTERS: More than meets the eyes
Thursday 17 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, (As a follow up to the article published in Cook Islands News, Saturday, March 12: “There’s much more to the Cook Islands than meets the eye”).
LETTERS: Cannabis, the burning questions
Wednesday 16 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, does the Cook Islands News have an editorial page that essentially states or supports the position of your newspaper in relation to various topics in our community?
LETTERS: Fuel price
Tuesday 15 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, yes, fuel (prices) will continue to rise, and so will the inflation rate, and also the cost of living across the board … sad fact of the times we live in. Government can assist with cuts in the fuel tax for starters, and that will assist the consumer/iti tangata quickly.
LETTERS: Stray dogs attacking pets
Monday 14 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, you cannot turn a dog away from attacking people or animals.
LETTERS: Illegal use of marijuana
Saturday 12 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, it is really annoying to read in your column about letters from MPs and people with high status in the community supporting the illegal use of marijuana (Cannabis accused gets letter of support from Aitutaki MP, March 2, 2022).
LETTERS: Inequality, inequity and gender bias
Friday 11 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, the drawing Kata presented for International Women’s Day is an absolute disgrace.
LETTERS: In search of the truth
Thursday 10 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, when a Prime Minister says something, people normally pay attention, but when that same Prime Minister, Mark Brown in this case, utters untruths or a lie, someone has to call him to account.
LETTERS: Stop the marijuana war
Wednesday 9 March 2022 | Written by Caleb Fotheringham | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, all wars are expensive and the Cook Islands government War on marijuana has been no different.
LETTERS: Actions speak louder than words
Tuesday 8 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, to those commenting on the visiting Mexican artist and what seems to this writer to be very inviting artwork on the sea wall at Nikao, the last time I looked at a world map Mexico fronts on the same Pacific Ocean as does the sea wall.
LETTERS: Te Kukupa’s final hurrah
Friday 4 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, can the Minister of Police and PM Mark Brown explain how much did the big booze up for the Kukupa at the Avatiu wharf last Friday evening cost the tax payers of this country?
LETTER: Prevention is better than cure
Thursday 3 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I write to ask people like Mr Nubono, who came on TV the night before last, not to glibly say things like “Covid is not dangerous”; “not to worry”, “that it’s just a flu”, etc. Tell that to the families of about six million people around the world so far who have died from it.
LETTERS: ‘Stop arguing and work together’
Tuesday 1 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, how about if we stop arguing and work together?