Letters to the Editor
Thursday 26: A good book
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, After reading Rev Steadman’s and Brian Chitty’s recent attacks on the scientific basis of evolution, I suggest they read Prof. Richard Dawkin’s bestseller ‘The God Delusion’, probably the most influential book on this subject ever. I am sure we all agree that access to information is the corner stone of a healthy informed […]
Tuesday 31: Tender criticism not right
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As Mr Polia has chosen to name me in his rather defamatory letter to the editor in your issue of Friday March 27, I feel I should have the right of reply. Contrary to Mr Polia: 1. The committee consisted of Mac Mokoroa, Tingika Elikana, Steve Anderson, Chris Reynolds and myself. It did […]
Thursday 26: Pay query
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I note with a wry smile the Office of the DPM putting out a paid advert to combat comments made by the Chamber of Commerce in Tuesday’s edition of your paper. Can we establish whether this money to pay for this advert was paid from the DPM’s personal income, or was it paid […]
Saturday 28 March: SMOKE SIGNALS - Smashing interest rates
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Westpac’s new housing loan interest rate of 9.95% (about 10%) is a classic example of commercial banks and the government being not very successful in their bid to curtail our economic predicament, says a signaller. “The more our commercial banks try to reduce interest rates as a result of market pressure and community criticism, the […]
Thursday 26: Minister 'all ears'
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, If I could correct a few matters. First I am not going to Queenstown for the Pacific Games Council meeting, although I have been invited. But I will attend the Oceania Games Council meeting later in April and make a presentation there. Secondly, I am not on the Seabed Minerals Bill Parliamentary Select […]
Saturday 28 March: So clever
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, You cannot appropriate what you don’t know. Our local papa’a are so clever that it prompts me to ask Mr Evans and his worldly buddies as to, for what purpose is he here on earth and where did he come from? Then if he cares to answer as truthfully as he alone can, […]
Thursday 26: Canadian civil engineer volunteers to help
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My wife and I have been visiting the Cook Islands since 1992. Since I retired from the consulting engineering business, we have been coming for two months to escape our cold winters in Canada. We read the Cook Islands News every day and take a keen interest in the local issues. It is […]
Saturday 28 March: Stand our ground, keep it local
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Good on the Vice President of the Demo Party Makirere Poila for making a stand against the invasion of foreign companies to the Cook Islands to undertake work that can actually be quite easily carried out by local companies. Surely there is no need for some rocket scientist overseas company to both design […]
Saturday 28 March: Pulse recruitment of surgeonfishes good news
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was excited to read the March 18 article online about the little fishes reported around Rarotonga, and I can’t help but to offer some information about it. This sounds like a pulse recruitment of surgeonfishes, probably Ctenocheatus striatus and Acanthurus nigrofuscus (as mentioned by MMR), but could also include other species such […]