Letters to the Editor
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.
Brett Porter: Tourism revenues
Tuesday 12 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Thomas Wynne (“It’s time to change our tourism”, May 2) asserts that the new order after Covid should be “with us in the driver’s seat, not the foreign interests that used our country as a cash register,” then left.
Rod Dixon: We've been here before
Tuesday 12 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, This isn’t the first time Cook Islands has locked down against a virus.
Dr Ted Hughes: Immunisation, Cook Islands' silent triumph
Thursday 7 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Probably by the year’s end a vaccination for Covid-19 will be available, most likely resulting from a collaboration between Oxford University and Astra-Zeneca. Potentially such a vaccine will end the Covid-19 crisis worldwide, if people agree to be vaccinated.
Moana Moeka'a: Only in the Cook Islands
Thursday 7 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, With my limited experience in sports administration, I find it absurd to read of Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) imposing restrictions (and reinforcing the prime minister's “ban”) on the resumption of certain sports (“It’s play time for 18 sports”, May 2).
Papa Williams: 2020 remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Wednesday 6 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
In 2020, one thing is glaringly clear – no developed or developing country in the world whether wealthy or poor, will come out the other side of this Covid-19 global smackdown unscathed.
Brandon Mataio Jammae Ulfsby: Food for thought
Wednesday 6 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
I’ve never quite understood in these golden years of tourism why the government hasn’t looked to diversify the economy.
Patti and Ernie Beugh: New Quarantine addiction
Tuesday 5 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana from Qualicum Beach, Canada.
Andy Kirkwood: Sludge!
Saturday 2 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Cook Islands News has identified a challenge (“Cook Islands waste worsens in Covid-19 slowdown,”April 18) that faces many small island states on the path to developed status.
Don Carlaw: Police flag
Friday 1 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I fail to understand why the police find it necessary to stop all traffic moving past their building during their daily flag raising ceremony.
Wilkie Rasmussen: Government must call a new election
Friday 1 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, This Covid -19 phenomenon exposes the failures of the Government with regard to economics. There is no export in agriculture, in black pearls, in fish, in arts and crafts and so on.
Raymond Newnham: “Business pleads for austerity”
Thursday 23 April 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
I have read your article entitled “Business pleads for austerity” which was in Monday’s paper.