Letters to the Editor
Lies, damned lies and statistics
Monday 27 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the letter from “The Accountant” on August 23 regarding the announced budget surplus.
Advice for Malcolm – 'talk to your MP'
Monday 27 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In reply to Roger Malcolm’s letter published in CINews on Friday August 24, 2018, I wonder if Mr Malcom actually read Mata McNair’s first article?
Rarotonga needs outer islands
Friday 24 August 2018 | Written by Jaimie Keay | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Utu Panu seems to have stepped into a hornet’s nest of loathing for the outer islanders.
Outer islands not forgotten
Thursday 23 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A reply to Utu Panu from Nooroa Daniel Kavakura Tuoro.
Second record surplus sounds like fake news
Thursday 23 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It’s been another magical performance by the Minister of Finance to achieve a record budget surplus for the second year in a row – or has it?
MOP proposal warning misplaced
Wednesday 22 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, May I respond to Wellington’s financial guru Kevin Barr’s letter of August 20, headed ‘Sting in the tail’, in which he rings a bell that tolls for us at Merchant of Paradise (MOP) and warning us about “the sting in the tail when borrowing large sums of money from the Chinese”.
Govt spending creates sense of entitlement in Pa Enua
Wednesday 22 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In his August 16 reply to my original letter concerning outer island expenditure by government, Utu Panu indicates pretty clearly that he doesn’t live in the Pa Enua – he mentions ‘them’ and ‘they’ and ‘these people’, not ‘us’ or ‘we,’ as if he belonged. I wonder whether he even lives in the Cook Islands.
Outer islands fall by the wayside
Tuesday 21 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Nooroa Tuoro (CINews August 20), thinks he is smart or brave for putting his name and blood groups in the newspaper for all to see but really all he is doing is showing off about his heritage and his good fortune for having been born on the right side of the blanket in the Cook Islands.
Arrival of Christianity to Rakahanga clarified
Tuesday 21 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Greetings in the wonderful name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I, pastor Temu Ngarima George, would like to declare that I know nothing about information I have read in CINews by that August 15 was the date declared for the arrival of Christianity to Rakahanga by the people from the islands of Manihiki who came to the Maire Maeva Nui celebrations.
Sting in the tail
Monday 20 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Watch out for the sting in the tail when borrowing large sums of money from the Chinese.
Check out the chickens
Monday 20 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Member of Parliament Tingika Elikana, in pointing out the high cost of sea shipment to the northern group, picked a box of frozen chicken as an example.
Where to place pa enua blame?
Monday 20 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A reply to the letter from ‘Utu Panu’ in the Thursday, August 16, edition of CINews.
Athletics seems better off than some sporting codes
Friday 17 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My neighbour has children in sports.
Asbestos education is website's mission
Friday 17 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My name's Emily and I'm with the (US-based) Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance (MCA).
Buck stops in Rarotonga, in more ways than one...
Thursday 16 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Mata McNair should stop bagging the outer islands and start looking for solutions for the outer islands’ problems.
Thanks for your kindness!
Thursday 16 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To the exceptionally kind and considerate local man (and his daughter or moko), who picked up my friend’s pink rito earring that fell of her ear whilst she was in the Convenience Store on Sunday afternoon and then followed her down to Super Brown to reunite the earring with its owner, thank you so very much.
Bribery claim ironic
Thursday 16 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, There is much irony in electoral petitions, and none more than the petition currently being heard before the court against the CIP’s Albert Nicholas in the RAPPA constituency.
End of petitions means a lost opportunity
Thursday 16 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the opinion piece of mine you published two Saturdays ago (August 4), in which I questioned the information being presented to the Electoral Court with reference to the Democratic petitioners' applications for discovery and which the court, on the representations made by the CIP legal team, declined.
Poor communication from Air Rarotonga
Wednesday 15 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing regarding an Air Rarotonga flight scheduled for 5pm on Sunday, August 12.
The story behind Avana Point issue
Tuesday 14 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As one of the family who are the registered landowners of Vaerota 6Q, popularly called Avana Point, I would like to thank everyone for declaring their opposition to the proposed development.
