Letters to the Editor
Critic answers concerns
Thursday 4 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It’s good to see criticisms and comments flowing into CINews concerning the nodule opportunity. There were two Wednesday morning I’d like to address. The first – ‘Let’s sit on the golden egg’ – has a good point. No doubt metal prices will rise in the years ahead. Someday copper might be worth as […]
Spare me, please
Thursday 4 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am replying to Kenny Valoa’s letter of February 2. Thanks Kenny for the unchristian, personal abuse you heaped upon me in your pathetic, irrelevant, raving and rambling sermon, which I found enlightening only in the fact that it highlighted your bigotry and intolerant attitude towards the other major religions in the world. […]
PM, please explain your 'Chosen One'
Thursday 4 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Cook Islands Tourism Industry Council has every right to be concerned and angry about the new found power and influence that businessman Tata Crocombe seems to have acquired in recent months and the way in which he is in full control of the new destination sales and marketing committee. While I fully […]
Tap should remain locked up in the closet
Thursday 4 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am glad that the five cabinet ministers are dragging their feet on the seabed mining adventure as Tap Pryor suggested in his editorial. What’s the rush, Tap? Do you really think that our current government can manage billions of dollars when they are struggling to manage the few millions we have? Perhaps […]
How lucky can you get?
Thursday 4 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, When one looks at the Toagate scandal one cannot help noticing the easy way Brett Porter makes millions of dollars without spending a cent – settlement out of court $1.75milliion, 8 years of guaranteed profit at $1.2 million a year, $9.6 million dollars, a total of $11.35million without ever contributing a dollar! How […]
Irreversible damage done
Thursday 4 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We, the people of this country, address these issues directly to prime minister Jim Marurai. 1. As PM, all cabinet portfolios belong to you but you delegate them amongst your ministers. 2. As chairman of cabinet, you chair all cabinet meetings and you are the only one who can call cabinet to meet. […]
Where to now?
Wednesday 3 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It seems that the short honeymoon for Marurai and his cabinet is already at stalemate. No new initiatives except they’re back-pedaling and going over ideas and initiatives already thought of by the Demo government. This little team is already exhausted as they no longer have the insight to think outside the square. In […]
Tap's suggestion 'horrifying'
Wednesday 3 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Tap Pryor has concerns about the ‘nodule opportunity’ he sees as about to be killed by the government and states that no appropriation of funds is required to pass and implement the seabed mining legislation and for the minister to sign an exploration licence. What a horrifying thought that is! The objectives of […]
Let's just sit on our golden egg
Wednesday 3 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I make reference to the letter in your newspaper the other day from ol’ papa Tap Pryor who appears desperate for this government to urgently proceed with the exploration of the country’s manganese nodules as soon as possible. The way I see things, if the value of the minerals contained in these deep-sea […]
Reform should include ministries and civil servants
Tuesday 2 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The current talk about electoral reform focuses on MPs and voting systems, mostly variants of the US and British system. It may be that with the Pacific culture, a more consensus-seeking system would suit the Cook Islands better. Transparency International, an NGO focusing on governance issues, reported that together with NZ and Sweden, […]
Les Priest's god is the moral law giver
Tuesday 2 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’m replying to a letter by Les Priest “Is God too busy?” Les comes across as an atheist but confusingly he also comes across as an agnostic by his “if” and “I imagine” remarks about God and evilness. Les’s personal belief “that there is no God” is inconsistent with known knowledge and human […]
More positives than negatives
Tuesday 2 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My wife and I vacationed in Rarotonga and Aitutaki two years ago spending a week on each island. Our two-week vacation contributed much to the local economy. We will be celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary in April and we have decided to return. But we’ll be visiting only Rarotonga this time, staying at […]
Stick with 24 MPs plus 1
Tuesday 2 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Recently MPs have been the target of unfair criticisms – too many, over-paid, under-worked etc. People moan about having far too many MPs. Niue has a population of just over a 1000 with 22 MPs. We have 15,000 with only 24 MPs, so what’s the big fuss! New Zealand went through their parliamentary […]
Kia vai rai te noo'anga o Nukuroa
Tuesday 2 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
E Tama, Kia orana i te aroa nui o to tatou metua Atua, E kura patianga mei roto atu i te au pu tokotoko e tamarumaru nei ia Nukuroa enua e pera te aronga mana o te enua, te au upoko inaina e tae rava atu ki te unga ma te potiki, i te patoi […]
What's the rush?
Tuesday 2 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Over the past month, there’s been so much publicity about political reform. But since Marurai and his cabinet have been in power, it’s all been ballyhoo about political reform to cover the real truth. The fact is Marurai and his cohorts have been brainwashed to reform in order to clear the political road […]
Police assurance a huge relief
Tuesday 2 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is comforting to know that the police commissioner will stand firm to the principles of good law and that he will protect the interests of the public from those in executive power who may choose to break the law and vice versa. That’s a huge relief and sends a very strong reassuring […]
Where is our leader?
Tuesday 2 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Excuses! Excuses! Excuses! That’s all I read in the paper these days and hear from the Prime Minister, the Demo party, including the CIP. No PROACTIVE responses, just reactive, pathetic, negative, finger pointing, passing the blame excuses. I have followed the reports on the Toagate Scandal and found it unbelievably amazing that the […]
Avoid messing round with a run-off for pm
Monday 1 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A smoke signaller writes: “Two of the proposed political reforms are about the election of the prime minister. One is that the PM should be voted for directly, the other that person coming top in the national MP election should be PM if he/she gets 50 percent of the vote. If not there’s a run-off. […]
Matariki FM wants better cyclone info
Monday 1 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Matariki FM agrees with your smoke signaller’s comment in the Cook Islands News of Friday January 29 that “we need standards and protocols for anyone on air at a time like this”, referring to the recent cyclone warnings. However, we suggest the signaller is unaware that at times of cyclone warnings or tsunami […]
Warning bells
Monday 1 February 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have been following the political turmoil of our fair island of late. The team in right now, excellent choice! But beware PM of who you surround yourself with. I’m no angel but these guys make me look like a choir boy. Surrounding yourself with the rich and successful won’t mean they will […]
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