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Suggestions to address death toll

Wednesday 17 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have a great concern for the tragic death toll caused by drink driving of our young people in the Cook Islands. What is the government doing about this? Are there or has the Ministry of Transport or the Justice Department put anything in place to educate or to raise awareness of the […]

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Get over it

Wednesday 17 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor, It is sad to see that the Demo Party still cannot get over the events that took place before Christmas, which was history in the making for this country. I read in today’s paper that they’ve finally got the ‘balls’ to sack the PM from the Demo Party. Despite the PM’s sacking, this […]

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PM should cop the blame

Wednesday 17 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Last night (Monday) on TVNZ One News the NZ Prime Minister John Key explained that his government had made a decision for NZ not to bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The reason: the projected financial costs relating to hosting of the Commonwealth Games would far outstrip the anticipated benefits. In simple terms, […]

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Beware 'The Big One'

Wednesday 17 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In reply to Tsunami Stressed, may I remind you that the Word of God is the only truth – it’s absolutely the Right Way. I praised the EMCI for the repeated warnings on the air for the general public especially in the late hours of the morning and the response was awesome. But […]

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Aitutaki council frustrated

Wednesday 17 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The people of Aitutaki are grateful that New Zealand Government has now confirmed their aid package of $5.5million towards the recovery of Aitutaki. As much as we want to thank New Zealand for their kind generosity there is a time and a place for that. Under the circumstances, there is a short fall […]

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Police took no risks in tsunami response

Wednesday 17 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I refer to the articles in the paper recently about the response of the Police and Emergency Management group to the Chile Tsunami warning. When we previously did not react very quickly to the Samoa tsunami, we were criticised by a number of people and an audit investigation was conducted into our actions. […]

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Dump party loyalty

Wednesday 17 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Two things are most certain from the coming elections: Firstly, Makiuti Tongia will never be a member of parliament; and secondly, all MPs sacked by Makiuti Tongia and his club members will win their seats. These include Jim, Wilkie, Wigmore, Piho and Heather. Makiuti’s excuse for sacking them is to pay back for […]

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No money left after games 'show'

Tuesday 16 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Good on Serena Hunter for expressing her anger and frustration in the way this country has been poorly governed in recent years. All my family and friends share Serena’s view that the current bunch of politicians have been disastrous in managing the affairs of the country and that new political leadership is desperately […]

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Staggered by bad roads all round

Monday 15 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Walking along the back road from Ngatangiia to Avarua the other day, I was staggered to see just how bad the state of our roads is in some areas. When asked, a planter on the outskirts of the backroad in Matavera told me that the last time the ministry of works had come […]

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Ethnicity important at Highcom

Monday 15 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Regarding the Cook Islands High Commissioner to New Zealand, I just want to ask, don’t we have any qualified, academic Cook Islands Maori person capable of being appointed to this position instead of the one just appointed? I have nothing against the man, but wouldn’t it be appropriate to have one of our […]

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Tour buses go too fast

Saturday 13 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Everyone goes on about speeding, drunk driving and talking of bringing the compulsory helmet law in. While this is all well, don’t you think it’s about time someone looked at the actions of the Raro Tour drivers? These drivers have no regard for the speed laws and fellow road users. I ask, are […]

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It's fiscally irresponsible

Saturday 13 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, So health and education are likely to suffer big budget cuts. When have health and education been a priority anyway. It’s more important to have a big impressive sports stadium and synthetic running track. And the Toa debacle is another thing which should never have happened. I can’t believe how fiscally irresponsible our […]

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Stats misused to justify helmets

Saturday 13 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, First of all I’d like to express my disappointment with the way some pro helmet supporters misuse motor vehicle accident (MVA) statistics to support such arguments as “one death should be a good enough reason to have introduced compulsory helmets”. What about the deaths through head injuries of those victims that were involved […]

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Financial catastrophe is nigh

Friday 12 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, There has been some recent hot gossip flying around saying that government is currently in deficit by over $5 million. If the rumour mill turns out to be true, it is likely that the blame game will begin with MPs in both the current and previous Demo governments pointing fingers at each other. […]

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Fix roads before helmets

Thursday 11 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The new president of the road safety council is over generalising and obviously making a point for all who insist that every motorcyclist should be forced to wear the standard full helmets on sale even at lower costs, but restrictive and hot in our tropical climate. The majority of motor bike and motor […]

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MPs owe us answers

Thursday 11 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Some time ago you requested some biographical information and individual response from our MPs on the question of political reform. The question was supported by many readers texting you. I realise we have had cyclone and tsunami trauma since then, but could you please publish the results of the questionnaire as I’m sure […]

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Thanks to four guys

Wednesday 10 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I think it is important to thank all of the kind hearted and generous offers that have gone towards the Aitutaki Appeal. Without so many people offering their time, money and expertise I am sure that, while by no means complete, the recovery effort would have taken so much longer than what it […]

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Don't believe re-write

Wednesday 10 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, One would not normally dignify the ramblings of Tepaki’s PR man James Thomson but our young people should not be allowed to believe James’ re-write of history is true. Government development and running of The Rarotongan was most certainly not successful. The ministers and other insiders who ran up bar and food tabs […]

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Thanks for good advice

Wednesday 10 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, A big thank you to both Alistair Macquarie and Tap Pryor for taking the time to shed more light on the effects of tsunamis and making us realise that islands such as those in our country are actually not vulnerable to the deadly effects of tsunamis. Not only have Alistair and Tap put […]

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Thanks, but road works incomplete

Wednesday 10 March 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Thank goodness that MOIP’s road work gang has finally got around to adding a tar and gravel mix fill into the 6 inch gaps that were recently ripped perpendicular at set intervals throughout the main road in Tupapa. This simple but critical work has probably saved many vehicles from enduring a further bashing! […]

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