Letters to the Editor
Warning: Idiots at work
Thursday 23 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I was shocked last night watching the local news and seeing an employee snuck under a car that was hoisted by a forklift so he could position a container to collect flowing liquid from the car that had just been pounded by a pick. It made me think the show should be called “Idiots At Work”.
Thanks for our health services
Thursday 23 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It is not often that I publicly write to address matters at hand, especially since most letters reflect negative or unacceptable situations. However, most outer islands have many challenges delivering health services.
Step up border control to stop drugs
Thursday 23 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I read on the front page of Monday’s newspaper, how we could be or possibly be faced with a meth or cocaine problem.
It's not what you know
Wednesday 22 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Our JPs are taking a strong stand on fraud.
Embarrassing to hear the Demos
Wednesday 22 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The litigious nature of the Democratic Party has exposed itself in the letter dated May 17 by the ghost writer “Disgruntled Taxpayer”.
Public opinion and wishes ignored by govt
Tuesday 21 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I applaud CINews’ announcement in Saturday's issue to conduct a random telephone poll regarding a range of issues government appear to be more interested in “railroading through with little transparency and at any cost”, irrespective of the public's concerns and views.
Meth issue 'bigger than you and me'
Tuesday 21 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Kudos to CI News publisher John Woods for revealing his own experiences with meth and also to Norman George for raising some of the drug issues for quite a number of years now.
CIWA responds to claims from Internal Affairs
Friday 17 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor This is in response to your report on Tuesday May 7 about Cook Islands Workers Association representatives (CIWA) walking out of the meeting with Internal Affairs.
Sitting days tests integrity
Friday 17 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Over the weekend, a group of friends and I happened to be discussing the Parliamentary debacle of three half sitting days that happened last month. The majority conclusion was that it was disgraceful, and was avoidable.
Dark clouds of meth loom over us
Thursday 16 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Meth is a scourge, it has wrecked my family and I have seen the damage it has done to my peer group and friends and colleagues. One sadly took his life at the end of last year and another died prematurely after complications from his addiction and in the end everyone loses.
Are we really making progress on Rarotonga?
Thursday 16 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Driving through the village of Muri I was deeply saddened to observe what Rarotonga calls progress.
Cook Islands deeply into drugs
Wednesday 15 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I applaud the comments by my ex-police colleague and friend Rod Henderson in last Friday’s paper (Cooks easy prey for drug lords).
Take a gander at parliamentarian's behaviour
Monday 13 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, You report four youths being investigated for stealing a rental car. What happened to them? Should we send them home and allow them to carry on their lives or should they be accountable?
Under cone of silence
Saturday 11 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Now that the re-sealing of the main road in Muri will shortly be completed, I do hope that the appropriate authorities in government will ensure that the household that has been placing cones on the roadside adjacent to the Muri Food Night Market, in an effort to charge motorists for parking, will be prevented from doing so.
Good luck – we'll certainly need it
Saturday 11 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, You report deputy prime minister Mark Brown took a delegation to China last month, to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Co-operation (“‘Cook Islands attend China forum”, May 4).
MPs' pay rise is a rort
Friday 10 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your article “Public vent at MP pay push” was validation of your publication’s Street Poll, where respondents all agreed our MPs are paid too much. The vast majority of our people locally and our Cookies abroad in Aotearoa, Australia and elsewhere would really disagree with deputy prime minister Mark Brown’s claim that our politicians are due more money because “the MPs have not had a pay rise for 14 years”. (“MPs deserve more pay, says Brown”, April 12).
Name of Polynesian homeland
Tuesday 7 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In the 1980s I was told on more than one occasion that I needed to go “search for myself” by my mentors, Nga Koumatua.
How many Parliament days?
Monday 6 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Any increase in parliamentary sitting days is always a good thing!
Flying stones
Tuesday 30 April 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Just adding a little more spice to Concerned Motorist’s letter of Saturday April 20.
Weed-cutting operation was dangerous to motorcyclists
Monday 22 April 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Around 9 o’clock on Wednesday morning I was witness to three workers simultaneously weed-cutting along both edges of the main road in Tupapa without a care for motorists driving in either direction.