Letters to the Editor
Brown's outburst insults our friends
Monday 22 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I WAS quite astounded by two items in your paper this week: Mark Brown’s incredible outburst defending the association with China by attacking our closest friends, New Zealand and Australia with his insulting and petulant demand that they would ‘have to do a little bit more... to maintain their presence etc...” and then Wilkie Ras-mussen’s column, “Cook Islands on rocky road to UN seat bid’ in Monday’s issue.
Police criticised
Friday 19 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
On Wednesday around midday in the blazing sun, there was a long build-up of frustrated and flustered motorists around Avatiu port.
Demo Party critic ignores the facts, says Rasmussen
Friday 19 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
First, a response to your letter writer yesterday about Kata's cartoon and a so-called Demo voter.
An answer to finance minister's question
Friday 19 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I don’t subscribe to Mark Brown's “ping-pong politics” nor do I respond to innuendo.
Ducking for cover over Chinese aid issue
Thursday 18 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It seems to me government corruption is an accepted practice here in the Cook Islands, but when you point it out like Australia’s Pacific and Development Minister, Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells did, everyone ducks for cover.
Finance minister's remarks taken to task
Thursday 18 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It amazed me that Mark Brown cast what is certainly a culturally, if not racially, charged slur on two counties, New Zealand and Australia, that contribute millions in aid to the Cook Islands, and other Pacific countries (CINews, January 13).
Brown challenges Demo claims
Thursday 18 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I cannot believe the drivel that James Beer writes.
Residents biting the dust out in Ngatangiia
Wednesday 17 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
How much longer must the people of Ngatangiia and Titikaveka and passing motorists, have to endure the dusty, pot-holed roads which were a direct result of Te Aponga (TAU) ripping up the existing roads in order to lay new cables and their inability to seal these same roads for weeks?
PM and Brown dodge comment on UN membership
Wednesday 17 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
In 2012 Prime minister Puna made a statement quoted in the New Zealand Listener magazine that he wanted to give up New Zealand citizenship.
Questions to MP go unanswered
Wednesday 17 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Thank you Danny Mataroa for your letter (CI News, January 15).
Kata cartoon goes down a real treat
Wednesday 17 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kata is brilliant.
Donated tractor difficult to miss
Tuesday 16 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
William Framhein enquired in a letter published in CINews on Saturday as to the whereabouts of the tractor and the agricultural machinery donated by the Chinese government.
Letter wasn't about race
Tuesday 16 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I support David McNair’s letter about the weekly column that Thomas Wynne writes.
Sugar book fascinating – and scary
Tuesday 16 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I have just finished reading a book on sugar written by Damon Gameau, the same man who made the film on sugar that was shown in schools not so long ago.
Ban plastic straws and help protect our precious environment
Monday 15 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
We may be world leaders in our bid to be self-sustainable by 2020, but when it comes to protecting our lagoons and island from plastic pollution we are our own worst enemies.
Time to step back and think about China issue
Monday 15 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It might be a good time for all the parties involved to take a step back and think carefully before further antagonising an already difficult situation.
Challenge for Maggie: Show us where the Chinese gear has gone
Monday 15 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The letter by Grass Cutter headlined ‘Wannabe PM insults our intelligence’, in last Saturday’s CI News needs to be acknowledged positively in terms of its balance and accuracy.
Water treatment remains an issue
Monday 15 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The last paragraph of a story in Wednesday’s CINews captured my attention.
Good on you, Thomas...
Friday 12 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Thomas Wynne's column is the one thing I do look forward to read in the paper each week. It’s typical of papa'a like David McNair to run down our people like that.
Some lessons to be learned from row over Chinese aid
Friday 12 January 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It was interesting to hear on Wednesday morning’s Radio Cook Islands-RNZ International and Pacific News report, comments attributed to Senator Concerta Fierravanti-Wells, Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific.