Letters to the Editor
Letters: Medical expert: 'No evidence chlorination poses any risk'
Wednesday 24 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I am an infectious diseases physician working at Auckland City Hospital and the University of Auckland, who this month had the good fortune to stay in Rarotonga for one week and attend the 21st Annual Cook Islands Health Conference.
Letters: Petition against chlorine
Tuesday 23 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Te Mato Vai is another sham public consultation showing government’s complete disregard and disdain for the concerns of landowners and other stakeholders.
Letters: Infected water causes disability
Tuesday 23 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, The ongoing public discussion in regards to water chlorination is of concern.
Letter: Transparency, or a lack of integrity?
Saturday 20 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I am surprised and shocked to find that Cook Islands News has decided on a policy of not allowing non de plume names for letters to the editor.
Nurses, doctors walk the walk of health
Friday 19 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor Last week I attended the Health Conference in Rarotonga. My mother is from Areora village in Atiu and I am an Auckland anaesthetist.
Meth, marijuana and our schools
Thursday 18 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, The education department has a real battle on its hands if it is to fight and win the battle against meth.
Time to fight for anolyte
Thursday 18 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, The merit of “anolyte” is its ability to kill germs, bacterium, protozoa, and viruses, unlike chlorine which fails to eliminate all the major nasty bugs, and just ends up smelling and tasting of the chemical chlorine.
Mark Brown trying to walk on water
Thursday 18 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, By now Mark Brown, the deputy prime minister, must be thinking he can walk on water.
The line for locals
Wednesday 17 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Are we welcome here? Depends who you are dealing with.
Alcohol kills on roads and in homes
Tuesday 16 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The problem with statistics is they can be taken out of context and used to misrepresent the whole, as we have seen with the chlorine debate.
Bluesky: Shape up or ship out
Tuesday 16 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We recently spent a lovely two weeks in Rarotonga. Lovely, that is, except for a chaotic failure to connect with wifi.
An informed opinion on chlorine
Tuesday 16 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am against the chlorination of our water. I have tasted chlorine in drinking water in New Zealand and dislike the smell and taste of it, it’s horrible.
Over-the- top pay for a part-time job
Tuesday 16 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Concerning the MPs’ pay rise, here’s a blast from the past.
MPs' shameful work habits
Monday 15 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The landmark decision to pamper MPs with a whopping $700,000 windfall is absurd and unjustified. They do not deserve it; they did not earn it.
Build it and they will run free
Monday 15 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A proverb says idle hands are the devils tools. When kids have nothing to do they are more likely to get into trouble.
Letters: Tourists safe from godlessness
Saturday 13 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, kia orana! I write in reply to Joe Fox, a successful New York businessman (Letters, July 9) who spent only a week visiting our beautiful Cook Islands.
Letters: Rose Tuki-Brown pales next to Jacinda Ardern
Saturday 13 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, RAT Mave (Letters, July 11) must be commended for illustrating so succinctly what our so-called leaders are about.
Letters: 'Experts' give chlorine no credence
Saturday 13 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I agree entirely with your comment (Editorial, July 12) that “most of us know very little about the science behind water disinfection”.
Talbot walks, Puna talks
Friday 12 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, To the people who find the wage increase of the Cook Islands MPs outrageous I invite you to look at your job, your industry, and figure out what you could do and achieve with an extra $50,000 per year, as Prime Minister Henry Puna gave himself. I invite you to send lists of how $700,000 every year will improve your work, sport and charity.
Shame on those who mistreat their animals
Friday 12 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Those of us working in Avarua yesterday were treated to the sight and sounds of a nearby resident beating the living daylights out of his dog.