Letters to the Editor
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.
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.
