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That's democracy!

Friday 30 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, As I have a lot of friends on Rarotonga I regularly dip into your online publication to catch up on local news and views. This week I was pleased to see a most erudite communication from The Bard and as today, April 23, is Shakespeare’s birthday I thought it fitting to congratulate the […]

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Plates just the number

Friday 30 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I read with interest the article on Cook Islands number plates. I live in Michigan, USA and have new Cook Islands plates on four cars. My Toyota with the CI plate on the front of the car in the snow appeared in the CI News last year. We only need a rear plate […]

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A bit of poetry

Thursday 29 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, This is a response to the letter signed ‘Two senesene worth’ letter in your newspaper yesterday: Two Senesene, the moon is green. Yes! Minister Wilkie, the moon is green. Two Senesene, the sun is purple. Yes! Minister Wilkie, the sun is purple. Two Senesene, I command you to follow my instructions. Yes! Minister […]

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Coco Putt deserves a licence

Thursday 29 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am writing in regards to the issuing of a new liquor licence. People who set up the new business called Coco Putt put a lot of money and dreams into their new venture, and then are denied a restaurant liquor licence, which is needed by the business to succeed. I know Tokerau […]

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Health system unfair

Thursday 29 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I wish to voice my disappointment at our national health system in regards to an issue when my son and daughter in-law were blessed with a beautiful baby girl in March this year at the Rarotonga hospital. They were told to pay $1000 for their week’s stay in hospital, added to that they […]

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Give board a fair go

Wednesday 28 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, There has been a lot of recent criticism of the Tourist Authority Board and its chairman but the persons on this board are undoubtedly the most capable and experienced we have available on the island. Some of the criticism is coming from people with a vested interest in seeing change or other people […]

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Reciprocal friendship for New Zealanders

Wednesday 28 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, No country in the whole world welcomes and financially assists the Cook Islands more than New Zealand. So what about some special reciprocation for our Kiwi friends and relations? Give New Zealanders your thanks and encouragement by helping their citizens exclusively, because of who they are, as they do for you. Invite all […]

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We're in a 'perilous position'

Wednesday 28 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Cook Islands has been put in a perilous position by the Tourism Board, as it moved to reprimand Unique Tourism Collection (UTC) over Christopher de Doby’s letter to the industry. The board has acted hastily and incorrectly on many counts. The letter was not anonymous, as claimed. It was directed at Tata […]

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A bit bogged out

Wednesday 28 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to “Man with a ‘beef’ lets rip”.Yes, Steve Boggs let rip alright. A big fat smelly one. And I’m a bit bogged out by it. Can he please just get over himself and let the Minister of Finance do his job. Does he not appreciate that there is […]

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CISNOC 'circus' claims answered

Wednesday 28 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor Events at CISNOC (Cook Islands Sport and National Olympic Committee) since the Pacific Mini Games have been nothing short of a circus. This outfit seems to have turned into a defacto office for former CIP hacks and has-beens. The grandstanding President is now off to Europe for another junket being a world conference […]

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Man with a 'beef' let's rip

Tuesday 27 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, John Woods is right, I got a beef! I got a beef with anyone who praises Wilkie Rasmussen or any other member of cabinet, both past and present who would front up in court regarding Toagate, but doesn’t blast them all for agreeing to such a foolish idea in the first place. All […]

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'Sheraton' detail refuted

Tuesday 27 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write regarding the letter ‘Sheraton worse than Toagate’ by Jacqui Evans in yesterday’s Cook Islands News. 1. Where on earth did Evans get the b.s. from? 2. I have never been a Minister of Tourism and as a person educated in legal matters would never sign a contract binding Cabinet or the […]

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Our hopes are dashed

Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Tight Five have been in control for four and a half months. How hopeful some of us were when they took over. How wrong. Except for replacing the Secretary of Finance with a competent person, what have they achieved? They have turned the future of our back-bone industry over to one resort […]

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Why the barrage?

Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I, like many people with an interest in tourism, went to the public meeting held by the tourism board. I have to admit that when I went in, I was slightly pessimistic as to the outcome. I am ashamed to say that after reading so much in the news about how bad everything […]

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'Sheraton' worse than 'Toagate'

Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It’s nonsense that Toagate is the “worst financial blunder that has ever been made by a Cook Island politician since self-government” as claimed by letter-writer “E Tu e Ara e taku Iti tangata”. I don’t condone the actions that lead to the Toagate debacle, but we should never forget what got us into […]

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Letter writer upset

Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to let your readers know that I have written a letter to your newspaper in order to respond to Wilkie Rasmussen’s last wrongful and false accusations against me, but Cook Islands News refused to print my letter. John Woods, managing editor of the Cook Islands News, said my […]

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Clinic backs its work

Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In a recent CI News article the Director of Public Health makes a statement about the findings of Better Health Research Centre calling them “wild statements”. We ask, does the director have access to up-to-date information to justify saying this? Can he prove that illnesses we report do not exist here and that […]

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Finish what was started

Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, This Toagate problem will not be solved, unless someone steps in and picks up the faults and sorts it out without blaming others who did not do their job rightly or did not finish it. Wilkie Rasmussen needs to concentrate on fixing it, because he is the new leader that has been appointed […]

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Respect America

Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, How sad it is to read and notice straight away the bigoted comments penned by Wilkie Rasmussen in his letter to the editor last Thursday. I was absolutely disgusted that he would stoop so low as to highlight to the whole world, via this medium, Steve Boggs’ country of origin and his relevance […]

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Best refs for top games

Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In reply to ‘Give credit to the ref’, and his defensive and sheltering of an individual referee, I would like to lend in my support to the writer who was requesting our best referee for top games. Top referees cannot and should not hold centre stage of any match, they should control the […]

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