Letters to the Editor
LETTERS: It's never too late for leadership
Friday 18 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Kia orana, tatou katoatoa I roto I te aroa maata o to tatou Atua ko Iesu Mesia. This letter is addressed to the people of Atiu to please reconsider and rethink who will be the best choice of leader for the people of Atiu.
Letters: Cable digging is on public land
Thursday 17 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Your article (“Fears of being ‘bullied and railroaded’,” October 16) will leave readers concerned.
Letters: A poem from the roundabout at Avarua
Thursday 17 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The biggest feet, red hibiscus shirt
Letter: Seeking information on Papa Tom Davis
Wednesday 16 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor My name is Rob Hack. I'm a poet here on a quest to gather information about Papa Tom Davis (pictured) for a writing project because: a) I have wanted to for years and b) I am tired of Kiwis saying “no” when I ask them “have you heard of Tom Davis?”
Letters: Purse seining deal 'a mistake'
Wednesday 16 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor Government made the mistake by accepting an eight-year fishing agreement with the European Union (reviewable every four years). It has given away our fish stock like peanuts with very minimal return for it.
Letters: Adoption
Tuesday 15 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor In the argument of who should have rights to the lands of blood relatives and non bloods, there is one missing element not being recognised and that is, why was the child adopted in the first place?
Letters: Rising to level of incompetence
Tuesday 15 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
LETTERS Dear editor, I like Te Tuhi Kelly’s comment that political parties promote their people into roles in the public service even though they don’t have skills and experience in those roles. I read an old publication by Laurence J Peter called the Peter Principle – here are a few quotes: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”
Letters: It's sad to see Tiare Taporo in a Samoa dry dock
Monday 14 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I have been very interested from time to time in news of the steel North Sea trawler which was converted and refitted in Newfoundland and renamed Tiare Taporo – taking largely under false pretences the famous name of my family’s New Zealand kauri-built schooner owned by AB Donald Ltd of Auckland.
Letters: The new future of the Cook Islands
Saturday 12 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Since 1965 when we gained our independence from New Zealand, we have been flogging the same old political horse and discourse – and how has that been for you?
Letters: Shipping our life blood
Saturday 12 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Taio Shipping is the bloodline to the outer islands, the Cook Islands extremities. Without our connections to the Pa Enua we are not fully embodied.
Letters: Lack of male dancers 'shames' CINAT name
Friday 11 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Kia Orana ite aroa maata o te Atua. Let me remind u all that 51 years ago the late Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Papa Arapati Enere (KBE) made a powerful rebuke statement at the Festival in 1968.
Letters: Tavini meitaki
Friday 11 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
E maata te angaanga meitaki ta Teariki Heather i rave no te katoatoa. Kare ra tetai e ariki i tona tu meitaki.
Letters: A plea for some rational discussion
Thursday 10 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It’s high time some rational objectivity was introduced to the debate around chlorination, given the current attitude of Te Vai Ora and their advocates to argue every point and deconstruct historical facts (“Anti-chloriners reject water as cause of 1964 gastro deaths”, October 8).
Letters: The state of politics in the Cook Islands
Thursday 10 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Having lived and married a local, and settled in the Cook Islands for almost 10 years now, I have gained an appreciation of the state of our nation and the inherent challenges we face going forward through a large network of friends, family, local community leaders, public servants, politicians, youth, Christians, foreign workers, social media, local news media, and whistle-blowers and of course my first-hand experience and the experience of others at the hands of some despicable employers here in the Cooks.
Letters: The big picture beyond seabed mining
Wednesday 9 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, They sold our fish at the cheapest deal that the fishing boats have ever made and now they think they got a good deal for the seabed mining? Bunch of peanuts.
Letters: 'How dare you Mark Brown'
Monday 7 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor In his brief address to a Blue Charter ministerial dialogue in New York, Mark Brown sums up in one word that the climate story headlines are due to “money”. He then goes on to say “more talk without action was no longer acceptable”.
Letters: Our families must decide inheritance
Saturday 5 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I too understand Ellena Tavioni’s stance (“Protect land to pass down by bloodline,” Oct 4).
Letters: Support for sacked environmentalist not surprising
Thursday 3 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It was no great surprise reading in last Saturday's Cook Islands News issue, that seven of the eight Street Poll participants unequivocally supported our very own home-grown environmental champion Jacqui Evans.
Letters: Absentee foundation keeps seeking donations
Wednesday 2 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Esther Honey Foundation ceased operating in the Cook Islands at the end of 2017 after being given a very generous grace period of two years by Government to find an alternative location.
Letters: Be guided by mining companies' abuse of neighbours
Monday 30 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Look at other indigenous countries who have allowed mining into their areas before you buy the mining company promises of vast amount of money and jobs for locals.