Letters to the Editor
Who is Anzac Day really about?
Friday 27 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Can the powers that be please explain why we the public and, most importantly, the ex-servicemen and women present have to wait for the dignitaries to arrive before starting the Anzac dawn parade service?
NZ cable conspiracy
Friday 27 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, WTF – so yesterday’s letter writer ‘Concerned’ is of the opinion or of the belief that New Zealand is contributing $15 million towards a submarine internet cable so that they can monitor all internet traffic to and from the Cook Islands?
One man's surplus revenue…
Friday 27 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In a CINews article in last week’s Tuesday, April 17, edition, opposition deputy leader James Beer has again repeated comments made over the past few years, challenging finance minister Mark Brown’s often-made and repeated, but arrogantly brash and false, statements of what he believes to be “surplus revenue”.
Kiwis will be able to listen in
Thursday 26 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, One technically informed source says that possibly the reason why New Zealand is prepared to give $15 million toward the marine internet cable is that it will enable them to monitor all internet traffic if they so choose, which they can’t do with a satellite system.
Be like Amsterdam, and get the country out of debt
Thursday 26 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Aue te kavamani kite kore!
Real answers needed on Manatua cable
Thursday 26 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, “Like the Rarotonga airport in 1974, the Manatua cable will have a catalytic effect on our economic growth”.
Minimum wage plan doesn't line up right
Monday 23 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding the Democratic Party’s hollow and same-old, same-old manifesto.
Undersea cable raises questions
Monday 23 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This is an open letter to finance minister Mark Brown:
Permanent moorings could cut shipping costs
Monday 23 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, All of us in the Cook Islands – at least those of us who care about the Cook Islands people – are very grateful when we are given overseas funding to apply for such things as the shipping subsidy of $500,000 a year for three years.
Back road digging causes more problems
Friday 20 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I hope that any further digging alongside the back road in Tikioki will receive proper assessment to avoid wasting limited resources on unnecessary activities.
Reform: It's time to think beyond the obvious
Friday 20 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In 20 years of discussing political reform, no-one ever seems to get beyond the thought of cutting some constituencies out and reducing seats.
E tu e ara e te iti tangata Kuki Airani
Friday 20 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia Orana e te etita, E reo poroki teia na te Koutu Nui e te au arongamana e manako nei i teia au tumu tapura.
Outer islands need doctors
Friday 20 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A number of decisions made by this present government over the last two terms of parliament have affected some, if not all Cook Islanders and were enacted despite serious protests from various sectors of the public.
Road toll deemed 'money-grabbing'
Thursday 19 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
In March my family were holidaying in Rarotonga. I was very surprised to find that we had to pay a $5 toll every time we drove down the road to Wigmore’s Waterfall (there is a $2 charge per walker).
Brown presents 'delusional picture'
Thursday 19 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black, or people in glasshouses should not throw stones? And who actually qualifies for his description of “ignorant”?
Tax on NZ pensions
Thursday 19 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A number of decisions have been made by this present government over the last two terms of parliament. These decisions affect some (if not all) Cook Islanders and were enacted despite serious protestations from various sectors of the public.
'Making it happen' cops criticism
Wednesday 18 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, “Let’s make it happen.”
Placing blame for the floods
Tuesday 17 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Regarding the headline in CI News on Wednesday, April 11, ‘Government blamed for flooding’.
Corruption columns amusing
Tuesday 17 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It was with great amusement that I read the columns by both Demo leader Tina Browne and chief executive Wilkie Rasmussen about corruption.
Demos don't look that ready to me
Tuesday 17 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
‘We are ready, bring it on, we have got this…’ Nek minute! All I can see is panic and insults being thrown as one of the Demo leaders, Tina Browne, prepares to get on a plane on Sunday for a netball game. Helloooo… anybody home?