Letters to the Editor
Why can't all the banks freeze loans?
Thursday 18 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Three cheers for ANZ Bank for their kind donation, but I would wonder why all three banks here in the Cooks have not stepped up to the plate and frozen home mortgages in Aitutaki. There is so much talk of fear that some of the stricken may give up and leave, and there […]
Daniel, you are not a bad person
Wednesday 17 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The story about Daniel Taura! During my visit to the Island, I spoke to Daniel outside Cafe Ariki in early January. He asked me how could he get a job. I said you need a CV. Much to my surprise he didn’t know what that was. Well, we carried on talking about his […]
Political soiling no good
Wednesday 17 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In this time of suffering for fathers, mothers and children in Aitutaki, Makiuti Tongia had nothing else to do but political vengeance. E aha roa teia tu? Tera akaou te au tuatua taviriviri e te akapikipiki a teia “political animal”. And I recall while people were preparing for a recent cyclone warning in […]
Censorship suggestions
Monday 15 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I note with interest significant paid advertising in the weekend paper advising details of banned movies, etc. I suggest the new Minister and HOM for Internal Affairs have the censor get his act together and actually pursue these pirates who we all know have been smuggling/illegally downloading these movies for at least 10 […]
Concern at school subject restrictions
Monday 15 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Allow me to raise some of my concerns through your column. Before the start of the school year, I was very happy as a parent that my daughter had passed her level one NZEA exams that she set last year. I encouraged her to do well again in the level 2 programme this […]
Please follow up
Monday 15 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have received an urgent message from family living on Aitutaki. They have no water, 70% are homeless, 20% of the roads are down and no building supplies. They have heard nothing of any aid coming. In NZ the government has given $200,000 in aid. Can I ask you to check if that […]
Investigate the Public Service Commissioner
Monday 15 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir, It’s amazing to read that the Public Service Commissioner appeared before a Ministry of the Crown to make submission on behalf of a private fishing company. Given the position he holds in government, doesn’t he feel an obligation to stay out of these private sector involvements. If other fishing companies require similar support […]
Commitment still there
Friday 12 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I want to clarify to 1Drop2Many (1D2M) and your reporter Helen Greig, on a couple of issues that have gone print. I requested the meeting with the minister and asked Navy Epati to sit in because of his past experience in marine regulations. There was a lengthy debate between Josh Mitchell from marine […]
Rotten egg
Wednesday 10 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am concerned for the country’s future in regards to the proposed manganese mining. Has anyone done any research on the environmental and health effects? From what I have researched so far, if you let the mining in you will not be sitting on a golden egg but a rotten one. Rob Thurnham
It's about open dialogue
Wednesday 10 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The comments by Makiuti Tongia in his letter to the editor on Monday is distasteful and dangerously misleading. In other words his comments show the state of mind of a bitter disturbed person wilfully exploiting the courage of the current government and hoping to spin it into dead-end conclusions. In my view he […]
Tap calling Nemo
Wednesday 10 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, May I try one more time to respond to the ever persistent writer, “Finding Nemo”? Nemo seems to think that somehow I am both the chief scientist and chief engineer of a company that seeks to obtain a seabed exploration license under the new legislation. I am neither. I am a member of […]
Fishing promises come to nothing
Wednesday 10 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read with interest but also with great concern that ‘pressure’ is put on the minister to bend, in many ways, under the thumb of some unscrupulous businessmen who have no regards for what others feel or think about their ways and strategies. The last time the fishing licences were granted, despite the […]
Maori only
Monday 8 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Since moving to Aotearoa eight years ago, I have noted that the tangata whenua (NZ Maori) have become the manuhiri (strangers) in their own land. I do not want this ever to happen back home. Therefore I am suggesting that our Constitution be amended so that no one can ever become a member […]
Service, lies, police
Monday 8 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Hi, I am writing in regards to a few things. Customer service, lies and the police. I have witnessed how our people treat their visitors. People are no longer friendly and there are hardly any smiles, when making purchases in shops. At the check out ready to pay, the attendant didn’t even smile […]
Wrong to silence the minority
Monday 8 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is wrong for this ‘government of five’ to merge the seats of Manihiki and Rakahanga, and Mitiaro and Mauke into one seat each in parliament. The initiative is based on roughly 500 voters to one seat that the islands do not yet meet and is therefore disqualified on this basis alone. However […]
Let the people decide
Monday 8 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I agree with letter writer, Very Concerned Voter in Thursday’s paper. If cabinet, which by the way includes the PM and his four ministers, can’t see that Tata Crocombe has a clear and direct conflict of interest as chairman of the Cook Islands Tourism board and the owner of two major hotels, then […]
'Fruit picking' is based on invalid science
Monday 8 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to Tap Pryor’s editorial equating harvesting nodules to picking fruit, I have issue with the few details he provided. He claims there ‘may’ be life down there, but most likely not because of the photographs he examined in the 1990s. Let’s take a closer look at the size of the area […]
Go back to the people, please
Saturday 6 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A lot of public opinion has been aired about government’s plans, through the proposals for political reform presented by both Crocombe and Short. The 12-point reform proposal put forward by Tata and Iaveta has in one way or other preempted the people’s views on what direction we should be taking. This planned initiative […]
Picking fruit 6000m below
Friday 5 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The letter writer “Finding Nemo” is concerned about the impact of sucking nodules off the bottom and that’s good. However, he/she says that “Tap seems to think that there’s no life down there”. In fact, the several previous explorations had taken thousands of close-up photos of the seabed that is 6000 metres below. […]
The Rarotongan hits back
Friday 5 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This is in response to Albert Tini’s letter to the editor in the Cook Islands News edition of February 1, 2010. The Rarotongan Beach Resort & Spa has for many years paid three separate incentive bonuses to all wage earners in addition to their flat rates. These bonuses are paid out weekly and […]
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