Letters to the Editor
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Wednesday 19 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to certain statements made in ‘High commissioner’s comments with held’ which appeared in yesterday’s edition of Cook Islands News. The Cook Islands-New Zealand relationship is the most important international tie this country has with other countries. As such, it is essential for those holding official positions in the […]
Cyclone recovery 'mickey mouse'
Tuesday 18 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It’s nearly a year since the Cyclone Pat recovery project started, and it is still a distant, far away from completion exercise. And whatever reasoning and excusable manipulation that we would choose to swing from, at the end of the day, we still have people with hindered lives living in tents like sardines, […]
Community clean up in Muri
Monday 17 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Residents in Muri Tapere are being called to a community working bee this afternoon starting at 5pm at the Nukupure Park. The working bee has been called by Pu Tapere Keta Williams and will included cleaning rubbish and overgrowth around the sports grounds at Nukupure Park. The working bee is a post festive season cleanup […]
Just research it first
Monday 17 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’m writing to ensure there is no misinformation circulating as a result of your letter writer “Toketoke Enua“. The point I’ve been making all along is that all available information on the fish traps in Avana-Aroko should be examined before springing into action. If the research concludes that the fish traps are the […]
Palmerston health clinic questions
Monday 17 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I understand that the Cook Islands Ministry of Health received $160K from the European Union in 2007 to build a medical centre on Palmerston Island. It is now 2011 and still a medical centre has not been built. I want to ask the former Outer Islands Health Director, now Secretary of Health Tupou […]
'The honest approach has disappeared'
Saturday 15 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is finished, and finally, the people have spoken. Every election leaves a track of disharmony from the candidates’ supporters, and this mayoral election for Aitutaki, according to some people, is a classic duplication of that unfortunate concept. Various accusations, such as the lack of promotion for such an important occasion, a much […]
Govt has betrayed outer islands: Wilkie
Saturday 15 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Has the Government betrayed a number of voters and candidates in the Outer Islands Local Government Elections held yesterday? My simple answer is, YES – ABSOLUTELY! The Government has committed gross injustice. I understand both the Prime Minister and the Head of the Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure echoed each other with their […]
Call to repair road damage
Saturday 15 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With schools to resume operation in a couple of weeks it is my hope that the Ministry of Works will get in and fix the road that leads directly to Takitumu Primary School in Matavera from the main road. Ever since Telecom Cook Islands dug this road up to lay cables a couple […]
Avana stench inquiry
Saturday 15 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am amazed that the horrible stench at Avana harbour has gone ‘un-noticed’ by the appropriate authorities, in this case probably the ministries of health, marine resources, infrastructure & planning and environment services, so that this appalling smell pollution problem can be eradicated. But then again, attending to public nuisances such as this […]
Call to catch scrap-munchers
Saturday 15 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This letter to your columns is in justifiable and credible support of Papa Joe Ngatae, the Police and Justice Ministry appointed dog-ranger who, to this time has weathered so much criticism for his sometimes natural overzealousness in eradicating paraiah, unfed and abandoned dogs which kill tethered goats and terrorise almost every pedestrian and […]
A case for action man
Friday 14 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a Ngatangiia family man whose children regularly make use of Muri lagoon for recreational purposes, it concerns me greatly that much needed plans to improve the quality of water in Muri lagoon by removing the fish traps appears to have hit a brick wall all because one person who is not from […]
'Let's get on with it, mate'
Friday 14 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My sympathy to those Queenslanders affected by the floods. Green and Gold, like Tok, is asking for a national fundraising appeal. Let’s be realistic and practical. Aussies are seasoned victims of all kinds of disasters – fires, cyclones, floods, drought. However, the thing about Aussies is that during or after a disaster, unlike […]
Let's launch fundraising appeal
Thursday 13 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have no idea whether the Prime Minister is intending to launch a national fundraising appeal to assist those in Australia who have been badly affected by the severe flooding in recent weeks, but I really hope that he and his government take the opportunity to do so. Asides from putting out the […]
Govt brave and courageous
Thursday 13 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing to commend the Prime Minister and his newly elected government for the brave and courageous stand towards the prevention of HIV and all other STI, in the Cook Islands. It is rewarding to read that you have all worked together to resolve this issue. I would also like to offer […]
Ignorance is bliss
Thursday 13 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’d like to educate a little…. Cook Islands and Proud, you don’t have to have sex to contract HIV. You can contract it from as easy as having a blood transfusion. It is not air-borne, you can’t get it from touching someone like you can get conjunctivitis. I am not an outsider, I […]
It's show time on outer islands
Thursday 13 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Today is the DAY to determine our future, in securing a very satisfying and better tomorrow for all Aitutakians. There is no more time for weighing the pros and cons, it is now show time. It is time to look at our pa metua, our mapu, and our children. We are indebted to […]
Don't listen to outsiders
Wednesday 12 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was just wondering if someone who is a foreign worker who brings AIDS into our country or receives it while here on our island should be deported back home. We have a population of only 10,000 people and decreasing, so what is of concern is that we don’t know who it is, […]
Do decent thing
Wednesday 12 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The HIV carrier that we have on the island must be shaking in his/her pants for the uproar he/she is causing our people. I feel sorry for you mate, I also feel sorry for all those you may have infected. You both are important however, if you maintain your stance and stay on […]
The fact is, Jesus was born
Wednesday 12 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of Les Priest yesterday. Funnily enough, the Archbishop of Canterbury is hardly the sort of person you want on your “team”. His views are heretical and do not reflect Biblical Christianity in any way. The fact is, Jesus Christ was born (probably not in December but it is […]
Mayoralty should not be 'political'
Wednesday 12 January 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It’s that time again – the race for the Aitutaki Mayoral position is up for grabs. I am currently on Aitutaki, and I could feel an air of expected cotton downed tension among my Aitutaki people, especially among family members. Surprisingly, I am experiencing an unnecessary segregation barrier among our people, with their […]
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