Letters to the Editor
Beautification not political
Monday 13 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the letter in the paper of September 2 about the Titikaveka beautification contract. The beautification programme is an opportunity for the community to come together and take ownership and clean its own village, ownership of the programme belongs to the village and not to a handful of […]
Mitiaro 'not supporting'
Saturday 11 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Mitiaro is one of the outer- islands recommended to fall into the proposed referendum on “Seat Reduction”. Mitiaro candidate (we await his corroboration on this) may have exposed his support to GPC ( Letter to the Editor Tuesday September 7), but we still see Mitiaro being represented not as a combined but an […]
Feeble excuses
Saturday 11 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This government’s feeble excuses for the lack of effort to improve the dreadful state of the two main roads that encircle the main island of Rarotonga is pathetic to say the least. If anything, the continued failure of Ministry of Works to budget for the full maintenance costs of Rarotonga’s roads year after […]
Pa Ariki: It's time for change
Saturday 11 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As we move towards the forthcoming elections, all Cook Islanders must seriously take stock of the path we have travelled and the successive governments we have had to live under before choosing who they wish to lead them into the future. I say lead because if the last 10 years is anything to […]
Apology over name
Friday 10 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Cook Islands News wishes to apologise for misspelling Sir Terepai Maoate’s surname in the page one headline in yesterday’s newspaper. This occurred due to a typographical error which wasn’t picked up in the proofing process. Cook Islands News apologises to Sir Terepai, his family, the Democratic Party and everyone affected by this error. We have […]
Fed up with 'political poison'
Friday 10 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I don’t expect you to do anything with this letter but I have a secret desire that this gets printed word for word. Wait till you read it. I was going to explore the acceptable newspaper grammar etiquette but if MPs can exercise their ability to “speak before they think” so can I. […]
Get real Smart Voter
Thursday 9 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read “Smart Voter’s” letter in yesterday’s paper. Luckily for “Smart Voter” he has not supplied his name. “Smart voter” obviously has no idea what he’s talking about – if we knew who he was we’d all be laughing at him as he drives down the potholed, patched, roads of Rarotonga. Get real […]
Law change needed to protect families
Wednesday 8 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing in support of Moana Rule’s child support petition, which is about time, because it’s a serious issue that needs to be addressed. A law is needed to change attitudes otherwise parents will always get up and go with no responsibility, and in the end, our families and children suffer, as […]
$10m contract not right
Wednesday 8 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Minister Smiley Heather’s article in the paper last week regarding the roading project going on now allowed us to see what is really going on within the Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning and the corruption and politics involved. Smiley mentioned that the roading programme is a planned programme with funding coming from ADB […]
Food concerns
Wednesday 8 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Food + hot weather + germs = diarrhea This is a simple equation I’d like to share with food vendors of the Cook Islands, especially as summer returns. Many cooked food vendors routinely sell food on tables and countertops without any attempt to chill the food, nor cover it from the sun, nor […]
Wake up to it!
Wednesday 8 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Good on Brett Porter for setting off a panic at the fuel pump by announcing that the country will be out of fuel this week. He claims no one has the ability to purchase tanker loads of fuel; nice. Yesterday Chris Vaile said that government has restricted Triad’s ability to store more fuel […]
Sir Terepai's 'incredible hypocrisy'
Tuesday 7 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Sir Terepai’s front page comments in Saturday’s newspaper must be responded to. Sir Terepai and his committee have refused to accept that we have time and again submitted the better argument and have presented a clear cut case how his nomination was improper and therefore invalid. They keep coming back and pestering the […]
People's Forum part of the debate
Tuesday 7 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The whole idea of the People’s Forum and of asking political candidates to speak up publicly is that we all need to discuss and debate political reform. Our Group for Political Change was asked by supporters to regroup, because of our past work in advocating for political reform. We were asked to again […]
There's no quick fix
Monday 6 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Let me take this opportunity to “get it right” as referred to by Serena Hunter of Muri. Reduction in the number of seats in parliament is the one suggestion agreed by GPC, Mou Piri and the Reformers as the referendum topic for this election, a suggestion that took at least two hours worth […]
Let's pressure candidates
Monday 6 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
We want signed commitments on key issues like reducing seats Dear Editor, In front of our eyes on almost a daily basis the political parties are falling apart. It’s time for everyone to seriously question your loyalty to a party because most politicians obviously don’t have any loyalty to YOU in the party, so many […]
Dog epidemic out west
Monday 6 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was not surprised recently to hear that a tourist had been bitten by a roving dog in Arorangi. I wrote to the Dog Ranger, via the police, several weeks ago stating that someone would get hurt by these dogs if nothing was done. Well, nothing was done and as far as I […]
Run-off idea ridiculous
Monday 6 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to Sir Terepai’s arrogant suggestion for a ‘national day run off’. Is he crazy? Does he not realise that he will be totally wiped out by the people of Ngatangiia? If only Sir Terepai and his bunch of loud mouth commitee members followed the constitution where it clearly states the proper […]
Maoate objection
Saturday 4 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a Ngatangiia Demo supporter, I object to Junior Maoate telling me who I should appoint as my candidate. Does he think we should go to Aitutaki and tell the people in his electorate if they nominate him, our member will walk away from the Demo party? Talk about arrogance, just like the […]
The system is not fair
Saturday 4 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thank you Tupui Ariki Henry for providing the same argument we are using going back to 1996. Information on how the decisions were made regarding the number of seats in Parliament, back in 1965 and 1984. You stated that at the time it was pointed out to the Self Government Committee (quote): … […]
Hospital 'not up to scratch'
Saturday 4 September 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am one of the many Cook Islands women living here in Rarotonga and I just want to say free of speech of course that our hospital up at Arorangi is really not up to scratch, equipment and service wise. I don’t mean to be nasty in anyway but I am speaking from […]
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