Letters to the Editor
Questions unanswered on TCI payments
Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write to you and your readers a couple more points in respect of telecommunications and legal advice given to the Minister for Telecommunications, Prime Minister Jim Marurai, by Telecom Cook Islands on behalf of Telecom New Zealand’s legal counsel Rebecca Jacob. The points of interest I take from that advice, “the Minister […]
Questions for MPs
Saturday 27 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Kua oti uakenei to tatou ikianga Kavamani ite ra 17 November 2010. E kua peke ki te CIP 15 nooanga, e 8 ki te DEMO. E (1) kare e papu. Kia akameitakiia te Atua no kotou katoatoa tei oro i teia oroanga, tei autu, e tei kore, praise the Lord. E uianga taku […]
Leave our Smiley alone
Saturday 27 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write in response to the letter by Ruaau Voter for Demos. Firstly you say that, and I quote, “I voted for the Demo Candidate in Ruaau” and then you go on to say, and I quote, “if our member in Ruaau decides to do anything, he must ask us first”. Who do […]
CIP, please put roading at top of list
Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I should not have to be telling MOIP how to do their job, but I do hope that their road gang will be returning to those areas on the road side which still flood after heavy rains, such as the bend in front of the Ngatangiia CICC Church, to fix the problem once […]
Divine delusions?
Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A few weeks ago after reading one of the good Bishop Pere’s public rants, I was tempted to suggest that he was, quote: “inebriated by the exorbitance of his own verbosity.” I would now further suggest that if he thinks he’s received a divine message in the shape of a racing hermit crab, […]
Protect coffee sellers
Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have just read about the mobile coffee van selling coffee around the island. What’s more, it seems from your article that this new business is owned and operated by expatriates. Why doesn’t someone wake up at the BTIB and do their job. Surely there are enough locally owned coffee outlets on the […]
Employ more locals, stop the outflow
Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write in reference to your report of comments at the Tourism Forum last week attributed to CI Tourism chairman Tata Crocombe. While it is correct that he said that the board wanted to see arrival numbers double to over 200,000 per year, he also stated that there was no time frame for […]
Smell the freedom
Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your smoke signaller of November 22 misses the point. The beauty of our democratic system is that one does have the right to complain whether one did or did not vote in the general election – the same way an MP takes care of ALL the constituents in his electorate whether or not […]
CIP congratulations
Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, There was no question who would win, just by how much. Congratulations CIP for a resounding election victory. The swing away from the Demos is a clear indication voters have had a guts full of their shambolic and chaotic administration. Toagate will be long remembered in history as one of the Demos’ biggest […]
Ask us first
Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor. I voted for the Demo candidate in Ruaau. Reading the front page news onTuesday I can only surmise that if Norman George is talking to anyone he would be talking with successful Demo MPs. In your paper I would like to take this opportunity to ask my member for Ruaau that if he […]
It is our right not to vote
Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write in response to all those that cast the ‘stones’ on those who wish to abstain from voting in the Cook Islands General Election process. This is quite ridiculous when many complainers frequently compare us to the likes of Burma or countries where people are persecuted, murdered and stoned etc for trying […]
George blames Maggie for starting CIP rumours
Wednesday 24 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I hate to spoil your rumour network, but while I dislike dignifying it with this response, I do so to state my position. The culprit in all of this is the several days old M.P. for Tupapa, George Maggie. I called him last Friday, November 19 having arrived back from Atiu on Thursday […]
Congrats CIP
Tuesday 23 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Kia orana. I wish to congratulate all the successful candidates of the General Election and commiserate with the unsuccessful ones. Of course, I’m delighted to see the Cook Islands Party back in power and wish you all the best in serving our people. Ngereteina Puna MANUKAU
CIP needs to take note
Tuesday 23 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The leader of the CIP and incoming Prime Minister, Henry Puna, is correct to credit much of his party’s landslide victory during last week’s general elections to political infighting within the Demo Party. I think that Puna’s assumption on his party’s emphatic victory is partially correct. However, as a voter I believe that […]
Fired up over Class of '86 lawyer
Tuesday 23 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have deliberately left responding to Class of ‘86 Lawyer’s letter published November 10 ‘Telecom critics one-eyed’ until now, now that the elections have passed. So I respond as follows. Firstly to Class of 86 Lawyer, front up with your name, you racist coward; attacking me personally behind a pseudonym is gutless and […]
We can all breathe easy now
Monday 22 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Congratulations CIP we have won the world cup, pushing the forwards to score the winning try, and are waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle for the Pukapuka seat. Now the people of the Cook Islands can wait and see what changes can be made to the constitution. Can I make […]
Lack of choice is apparent
Monday 22 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thank you, for responding to my thoughts on, ‘To Vote or Not to Vote that is the Question’. Firstly let me apologise for being anonymous. That was an oversight on my part; my name is Norman Mitchell Ngawaka: Tamatoa. That dealt with, I am sick of it too. The question is what are […]
May justice and democracy prevail always in the Cooks
Saturday 20 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As an electoral officer in the Nikao electorate I felt a great sense of injustice in the mentality of people such as ‘Sick of it’ (18/11 issue). These are people who choose not to exercise their individual rights; Yes, your right! But a right that many in the world were either persecuted, prosecuted, […]
Congratulations CIP
Friday 19 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Firstly I would like to congratulate the CIP successful candidates especially the new blood. Yes, you have various challenges ahead of you but that is the name of the game. I would also like to extend my acknowledgement to the Demos, even though you had lost the battle. To our tumutoa George Maggie […]
Swimming pool idea 'stupid'
Friday 19 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I can’t believe that anyone would actually consider such a stupid idea as a tidal swimming pool. These pools only work in places with a much larger difference between high and low tide. Here it can be less than a metre and that would not be enough to flush the water (pool will […]
« Previous 1 … 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 … 383 Next »