Letters to the Editor
Tuakana Faireka: Meitaki from a returned mama
Wednesday 10 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, With the repatriation of stranded Cook Islanders having been completed successfully, and as a member of the first cohort, I take great pleasure in expressing my sincere gratitude to the following groups of people and organisations that have made it possible for this to happen.
Wilkie Rasmussen: Failure to diversify
Wednesday 10 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I have said it before several times that this government has failed the Cook Islands people miserably on a number of economic fronts.
John M Scott: Seabed mining v exploration
Wednesday 10 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Is it not a trifle misleading and disingenuous for the Minister to be placing all the emphasis on the potentially less damaging exploration argument as opposed to mining?
Alan Richardson: Border must go both ways
Tuesday 9 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, As a Kiwi living in the Cooks, I have been watching the situation with border control and opening with interest.
John M Scott: Real cost of big public sector
Saturday 6 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, A couple of observations on recent matters. An interesting story (“Cooks burgeoning public service back where it started,” June 4) again raises the question, what is the size and annual cost of our public service?
Wilkie Rasmussen: Northern self-reliance
Saturday 6 June 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Self-determination in the Northern Group islands is dead. Let's look at the pearl industry.
Richard Thomson: Flu jabs for all
Friday 5 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, As a permanent taxpaying resident of 44 years, and a long-term New Zealand Aotearoa citizen and Cook Islands family resident, plus taxpaying New Zealand pensioner, here in Aitutaki/Araura Enua, I have the right to comment about the (as yet limited) government-approved health ministry Te Marae Ora Rarotonga-only influenza vaccinations.
Vaine Wichman: Understanding economics
Thursday 4 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In the current global recession, most responsible Governments’ have initiated or brought forward infrastructure and capital development programs besides social and unemployment programs, for two reasons.
Mark Brown: Seabeds law 'safeguards' our oceans
Thursday 4 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana editor, I write in response to a number of claims made by Jacqui Evans (Letters, May 30).
Maara Tetava: 'Cop v cop' refuted
Thursday 4 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, In the matter of an article you published May 27 headlined “Cop v cop”, this letter is being forwarded to put the record straight over criticisms aimed at the Police Service.
Wilkie Rasmussen: Hypocrisy of charter flights
Saturday 30 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear sir, Even in these gloomy economic and hard financial times, this government continues to raid our country's trough.
Jacqui Evans: Ignored, just like I was
Saturday 30 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Minister Mark Brown says a moratorium on seabed mining “would bring research on our mineral resources to a standstill”. This is untrue.
Paul Lynch: Take personal responsibility
Friday 29 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I have a response to a question to me (Letters, May 28).
Duncan Lewis: Small stallholders need help
Friday 29 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Things are bad enough at the moment, with the lockdown and no tourists. But with the bridge rebuild and the entrance to the market closed, things are even harder for everyone at the market.
Tim Arnold: Taio's brand new vessel
Thursday 28 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor; I was as surprised as my client, Tapi Taio, to read on the front page of that newspaper that a brand new vessel is being constructed for him at present.
Jean Mason: All brains, young or old, are vulnerable
Tuesday 26 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Once in a while you have to put your trust in your MPs to do the right thing –this is why we voted for them.
Andy Kirkwood: Water treatment: Don't be hasty
Saturday 23 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Anticipating an economic recovery strategy that will borrow from New Zealand's post-Covid push to green-light spade-ready infrastructure projects, I observe that Mark Brown is back on the chemical water treatment campaign trail.
Chris Denny: Govt money is running out
Monday 18 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, The worst is still to come!
RAT Mavé: Quarantine provisions
Friday 15 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I find it somewhat disturbing the Edgewater resort is open to the public and has the repatriated locals in quarantine.
Ellena Tavioni: Internet charges
Friday 15 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia Orana Editor, I have no choice but to express my deep concern in regard to the charges Vodafone are making to the people of the Cook Islands.
