Letters to the Editor
It's odd, absurd, obscene
Wednesday 24 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Please allow me to clarify some issues raised by Wilkie Rasmussen in his comments on Monday in your paper. Firstly it not an oddity to have a leader of a party elected openly and fairly by the representatives and delegates of each puna in the Cook Islands. This is democracy at work. The […]
Shocked by tourism resignations
Wednesday 24 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The shock resignations of the acting CEO of Tourism, Glenda Tuaine, and Cook Islands tourism NZ manager, Chris Ingram, have the potential to cause serious, long-term damage to Cook Islands Tourism Corporation. If we are not careful, these unfortunate resignations could actually undermine and threaten the unprecedented growth and success that the country’s […]
Parties first, broken promises
Wednesday 24 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Political parties always put themselves first and the Cook Islands Party has broken their promise again. They promised earlier not to hold up necessary funding in government. Now they are screaming that the present Cabinet is failing the people of Aitutaki. The CIP don’t care about Aitutaki, all they care about is forcing […]
'We will win our seats back'
Tuesday 23 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your paper has an almost daily letter writer with a mission to discredit me, the prime minister and fellow cabinet ministers. For his information, both Jim and I will win our seats handsomely irrespective of whether we are in government as ministers or not. So will our colleagues. His comments that I was […]
PM has the mandate
Tuesday 23 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir, What makes the CIP think that it can govern? It lost the elections and it does not hold the majority mandate. It was rejected outright by most of the constituencies. Its leader Henry Puna, an MP then was embarrassingly thrown out. For him to claim that Jim Marurai’s government has no mandate is […]
PA-systems overused
Tuesday 23 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Last week I went to watch four impressive premier-grade rugby league teams battle it out in the local footy competition. Played on Friday afternoon at Ngatangiia, the first match was between the high flying Ngatangiia Sea Eagles against the snarling Titikaveka Bulldogs. In the second premier-grade match played at Avatiu on Saturday afternoon, […]
Thank you minister
Monday 22 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor Kia orana, I am writing to offer my apology for the incorrect news that was printed in Monday’s newspaper dated 8 March 2010. It’s a mistake made on my part because I didn’t really check – it’s the T & M Heather of Arorangi that came to mind first thing. So the correct […]
Let Aitutaki benefit
Monday 22 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We cannot but share the frustration of Aitutaki in the way their cyclone recovery has been taken over by a bureaucracy based in Rarotonga. Consider that Aitutaki has direct shipping from New Zealand and Rarotonga and it has good communications with mobile phone coverage and the internet. Aitutakians are certainly no less intelligent […]
CIP silent on 'excessive' spending until now
Monday 22 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, For the last 10 years, the CIP leadership has been silent while Maoate-led governments step-by-step blew out the budget. In 1999, only 1300 government jobs had survived the reform while presently there are close to 2000. The CIP should have objected to every staff addition because the 1996 reform demonstrated that 1300 persons […]
Political power for self-gain
Monday 22 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It concerns me greatly that the prime minister of this country is calling for the public to support political reform when it is clear as daylight that his stitched-up government goes directly against the grain of what people recognise as good governance and political stability. Don’t preach what you cannot practice prime minister […]
Govt not dictating to Aitutaki: minister
Monday 22 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir, Aitutaki should never be a political football. Unfortunately, it has become so. However here are some basic facts and I hope it will make the public understand: 1.Rarotonga (presumably, the central government operation based in Rarotonga) is not dictating to Aitutaki. A day after the cyclone struck, the government began working with Aitutaki. […]
Parties being self-righteous
Saturday 20 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The political parties calling the PM “self-serving” are like the pot calling the kettle black, a smoke signaller says. “CIPs and Demos pretending to be holier-than-thou are a hilarious exercise in hypocrisy. They, self-serving? Never! There must have been 8000 persons less 19 on Rarotonga laughing at that headline. One friend said, “Maybe the parties […]
'An old sailor' greeting
Saturday 20 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a Silver Surfer (old age pensioner) I came across your Cook Islands News website and it brought back many memories. I was in the Royal Navy in the 1950s and I served on HMS Warrior we had the good fortune to come to Rarotonga in 1956. The welcome we got from the […]
Chinese car claims 'baseless'
Saturday 20 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reference is made to your front page article “Audit looks into claimed Chinese car kickbacks” on 16 March 2010. My response is to make corrections to your headline article that purposely seeks to defame my character publicly with unprofessional baseless report findings. It is unfortunate that your article irresponsibly refers to use of […]
Manihikians had same fear
Friday 19 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read with interest sadness Mayor Tai Herman’s letter of Wednesday’s Cook Islands News. However, it was interesting because he expressed the same concerns forwarded by some of us in Manihiki during the planning stages after Cyclone Martin, which were ignored. Sad because it seems that nothing was learnt from the Manihiki experience. […]
The tsunami call
Friday 19 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Our police commissioner has spoken that he will continue to urge all of us into the hills whenever there is a tsunami wave coming our way. If he checks with his counterpart in Hawaii, he would find that for 50 years staff at the centre have made judgement calls to only areas that […]
Consider shipping containers
Friday 19 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Aitutaki Mayor Tai Herman is right to reject the offer of Lockwood Timber Houses. They would not stand up to another ‘Pat’ cyclone. Perhaps consideration should be given to steel constructed homes in the form of shipping containers. I have been involved in the design aspect of these types of homes which are […]
Cyclone Pat may bring Phoenix out of ashes
Friday 19 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, After surveying the damage in Aitutaki via pictures sent to me by friends and family in the Cooks, it’s devastating to see the island in the aftermath of Cyclone Pat. I feel deeply for the people of Aitutaki and my family there. Aid money will come and rescue in part and relieve some […]
Bribery is unacceptable
Thursday 18 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am not surprised that the former head of CICC, John Tini, was allegedly handed a brand new vehicle from the Chinese construction company CCECC a year or so ago. I wonder who else in government may have received such a ‘present’ from CCECC? Whether they be state, public or privately owned, some […]
Congrats to mayor
Thursday 18 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I wish to congratulate Tai Herman, Aitutaki’s mayor, for taking a bold stand in rejecting the proposal from Habitat for Humanity to build 70 houses — funded by both the NZ and Cook Islands governments — for those families whose homes were completely destroyed during Cyclone Pat. I reckon that the very last […]
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