Letters to the Editor
Pulling the PM's strings?
Tuesday 12 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Clearing my office of accumulated rubbish I came across the Cook Islands News of Wednesday, July 29 2009 and there was a front page story featuring Wilkie Rasmussen. A quote from the honourable member makes interesting reading now! “I have raised it directly with the prime minister that he should consider stepping down […]
Wanted: sensible decisions
Monday 11 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Here they go again — straight from Toagate to Solargate believing they can legislate everyone’s rights out of existence and create another level of bureaucracy to waste money on consultants, workshops, travel and perks. Six month durability trials? Hello! Solar panels are already proven to last 20 plus years – who got the […]
Bought but not paid for
Monday 11 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Re Cook Islands News, Saturday, January 9 – “Country First: CIP, Demos” should have read “Politicians first and foremost and always”. The spin and misinformation in their media release shows their basic dishonesty. They claim that five MPs have seized cabinet. I remember a minister of finance being asked to step down from […]
Leave things as they are
Monday 11 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We read with interest that MPs from both sides of the aisle have expressed “complete lack of support for cabinet”. In as much as cabinet was only recently appointed, what is the basis for their concern? Three of the new ministers have served in cabinet before. We cannot recall when the Cook Islands […]
Dangerous goods
Monday 11 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Never mind about learning to speak Maori, I think we will have to learn the Indonesian language that is on the labels of goods being ever increasingly imported and sold in the Cook Islands! My wife purchased from a store here what certainly looks like bathroom cleaner. The pictures on the label certainly […]
Which constitution are you referring to?
Monday 11 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor I have been asking myself which constitution are some people referring to because in my copy I cannot find anything to support some of the proposals, statements and speculation we are reading about in your newspaper. My understanding of the present situation is this. Like it or not, Jim Marurai is the prime […]
No April Fools' Day joke
Saturday 9 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I could not believe the headline on Thursday — “PM to cut costs”. I checked to see if I had overslept, so maybe this was already April Fools’ Day. No, it was indeed 7 January all day. But, how will cabinet and their new minister for bean counting cut costs? Okay, not adding […]
Patience and understanding needed
Saturday 9 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Don Silk must have had a very bad day two days out from Christmas (re his letter in yesterday’s edition of Cook Islands News). Armed to the teeth with his tape recorder, Immigration was going to be his OK Corral whatever it took. As a person from the colonial era and used to […]
What's your point?
Saturday 9 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter written by Don Silk which appeared in Friday’s issue of the Cook Islands News. As the eldest daughter of the late Richard Chapman I am pleased to confirm that he was indeed a wonderful father to his children. However, as his child, I am not in a position […]
Arrogance in the public service
Friday 8 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor We are all aware that not all public servants are dedicated to serving the public. While some certainly do their best to provide the service for which the public pays, there are other petty officials, many of whom have been given authority well beyond their competence, once they get behind a desk surrounded […]
Return our pounamu please
Friday 8 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My son was part of a New Zealand wedding group having been seduced by romantic tourism advertising and Rarotonga’s idyllic setting. On the 19 December 2009, thieves broke into their accommodation at Island Villas at Muri, rifled through all their property stealing my son’s entire suitcase containing all his belongings including his laptop, […]
Doing desperate things
Friday 8 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, How many don’t know that the sacked maxi-leader attempted a coup of sorts over the long weekend? Maybe there are a few revellers still sleeping it off who don’t know that a ‘vote of confidence’ in Sir Terepai Maoate was circulated by the Ngatangiia MP amongst the remaining Demo MPs and all the […]
Getting to the bottom of it
Wednesday 6 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Congratulations to Cook Islands News for the fantastic effort carried out by your small team of dedicated reporters late last year relating to the recent Northern group fishing venture that failed to live up to all its many promises. Your excellent media coverage on this very dubious fishing venture both highlighted and exposed […]
Superannuation fund or national super tax?
Wednesday 6 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am so disgusted to finally receive my 2008 (one year later) Cook Islands National Superannuation Fund’s so called “retirement fund” statement last week to see that I had an investment loss deduction of 33.6 percent on my 2008 contribution plus another one percent deduction for insurance. And to make things even juicier, […]
Just get over it sir!
Tuesday 5 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Sir Terepai Maoate, get over yourself and stop holding the country to ransom! You created a ‘patsy’ for your own political security, but didn’t expect anyone to call out enough! This is what happens when government decides to play a corporate game and try to be the ‘be all’ instead of doing what […]
No witches to hunt for
Tuesday 5 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With the recent happenings around the cabinet table I was amazed to read the press release of the now reinvented minister, Wilkie Rasmussen. He said that "there will be absolutely no witch-hunt against Sir Terepai Maoate and senior public servants associated with him in the Toa Petroleum matter". Why not, is my question? […]
It takes one to know one
Tuesday 5 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A smoke signaller accused Wilkie Rasmussen of being a hypocrite because he called the PM naughty names the last time Wilkie was sacked for something. In fact, the signaller called Wilkie the "biggest hypocrite ever in the Cook Islands". You have to wonder if that smokie was sent by a tourist or by […]
Out with the old and in with the new
Saturday 2 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Had some thick-headed politicians observed my letters to the editor concerning the Vaimaanga debacle some years ago, we wouldn’t have been in such chaos nowadays. Those letters were for the government to stay clear of any business dealings. No, my pleas were ignored and now it has turned around to bite the hard-working […]
Smart money on the rebels
Saturday 2 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, At the top of Wednesday’s front page, minister Wilkie Rasmussen said that the Marurai government, Sir Terepai Maoate and the Democratic Party will try to resolve their differences. At the bottom of the same page, the Democratic Party withdrew its support of the Marurai government. Cook Islands News helpfully noted that these are […]
Cook Islanders deserve better
Saturday 2 January 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As an ex-pat watching this mess unfold with the Cook Islands government, it strikes me how incredibly ridiculous this whole affair is. It’s blatantly obvious how diabolical the circumstances were that led to Sir Terepai Maoate’s sacking. Yet three ministers resign in support of somebody that has fundamentally betrayed his duty of office. […]
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