Letters to the Editor
Bring back the beat
Thursday 30 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A problem I keep seeing with the police training programme is that the new police cadets we get arrive fit healthy after their initial boot camp programme, then just months later they are rolling around in cars eating doughnuts and living the cliche of every cop movie.
Cable questioned
Thursday 30 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Is the Manatua cable and the apparent obstinate, yet contradictory declaration by government that it “intends to proceed as planned”, meanwhile stating that “the concerns raised by the Chamber of Commerce... are being carefully considered” (CINews August 23), not an issue on which the caretaker government should be consulting with the Opposition?
Failure dogs desex programmes
Wednesday 29 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, They say the definition of stress is to do the same thing year after year and expect a different result.
Police cars cop criticism
Wednesday 29 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Who is the new Cabinet minister responsible for the police? Is it Rose Brown?
It's too little, too late, for outer islands
Monday 27 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Mata McNair’s reply to my letter (Aug 22nd) sounded somewhat legalistic, almost like a lawyer wrote it.
Random TV 'programming'
Monday 27 August 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, CITV's programming leaves a lot to be desired.
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).