Letters to the Editor
Letters: Don't shame hard-working local business
Thursday 26 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read this morning (September 25) the letter from Pouarii Tanner about the sad situation of the fishing vessel on the reef in Rutaki.
Letters: Formal protest to UN
Thursday 26 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Deputy Prime Minister Mark Brown’s omission from the United Nations photo is insulting and regretted.
Letters: Appealing case
Thursday 26 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I find it bemusing that the legal team for Te-Hani Brown are opposing the Demo Party’s Court of Appeal application.
Letters: Children put Cooks business and govt to shame
Wednesday 25 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana, I was not the only one who was upset to see the drone footage of the Wairau stuck on the reef and the damage being done because of this.
Letters: UK shut Parliament for five weeks, Cooks shut down all year
Wednesday 25 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Cook Islands Party Government should take careful note of the UK Supreme Court decision, ruling against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s action to prorogue Parliament for five weeks.
LETTERS; Customs gets a customer services complaint
Sunday 22 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I sent a parcel from Mackay, Queensland, Australia on Monday 26th August 2019, addressed to my brother and my son.
Letters: 'We are still letting Scorpfield down'
Friday 20 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I never had the pleasure of meeting Scorpfield Wichman Anthony and because of the actions of one of his grandfathers, I never will.
Letters: Planting is alive, we can grow tomatoes
Thursday 19 September 2019 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, In response to Rat Mave’s letter (Sept 11) I would like to say planting is not dying in Rarotonga, it is alive.
Letters - Child abuse: We should take a good hard look at ourselves
Wednesday 18 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, The recent comments regarding Ngaakitai Taria Pureariki and the sometimes vitriolic language used against him and what transpired once again shows how blinkered we are.
Letters: Enough hand-wringing talk
Wednesday 18 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Amidst the handwringing pleas for understanding and even forgiveness, the legal process has very much taken a back seat. Ngaakitai Taria was convicted by a jury of the manslaughter of his grandson. He beat him to death. He was sentenced to jail.
Letters: Taxing junk food
Tuesday 17 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The world has become a monopoly ruled by big business where for example a can of coke is cheaper than a bottle of water.
Letters: Self-discovery is the answer to vacant Ariki titles
Tuesday 17 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, At the recent Ui Ariki conference, with re-elected Kaumaiti Nui president Tou Ariki said the longstanding vacant Ariki titles were to be discussed.
Letters: Food security threat
Monday 16 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Te Ipukarea Society president Teina McKenzie has proposed Pacific Islands leaders to support a 10-year moratorium on Seabed Mineral Mining (“Call to secure health of shared ocean”, August 13), asking them to prioritise communities’ health and recognise values beyond economic gain.
Letters: Obesity: Taxing bad stuff does work
Monday 16 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Dr Robyn Toomath, specialist in non-communicable diseases and obesity, has written several books on obesity.
Letters: What happened to 'buy local'?
Friday 13 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Anneka Brown (“Are you being squeezed”, Sept 7) highlights government’s clear failure to comprehensively support our planters and farmers, who have worked very hard to contribute to our country’s food security.
Letters: Place $5 bounty on predators
Thursday 12 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Staying again in Aitutaki Beach Villas we are concerned about the future of the corals that are suffering since years because of climate changing and the Crown of Thorns Starfish.
Letters: Another pensions raid?
Thursday 12 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor The letter from Roger Malcolm regarding the freeing up of his Cook Islands pension from the Government to be used to pay off the student loan of the Aitutaki Student Doctor loan.
Letters: Why planting is dying
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor It was interesting to see Kiriau Terepu in the paper promoting Agriculture.
Letters: Let he who is without sin
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, On behalf of the Rainbow community (LGBTQI) and with a soft note, we would like to say to Ngarima George – if he is not a sinner himself, he should be throwing the stones on us the parents of these lovely children.
Change the flag or change the name
Tuesday 10 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor The latest $1 billion drug bust aboard a Cook Islands-flagged yacht is one of many strange stories of Cook Islands flags in the papers.
