Opinion
Over-the- top pay for a part-time job
Tuesday 16 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Concerning the MPs’ pay rise, here’s a blast from the past.
Kata July 16
Tuesday 16 July 2019 | Published in Kata
MPs' shameful work habits
Monday 15 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The landmark decision to pamper MPs with a whopping $700,000 windfall is absurd and unjustified. They do not deserve it; they did not earn it.
Build it and they will run free
Monday 15 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A proverb says idle hands are the devils tools. When kids have nothing to do they are more likely to get into trouble.
Kata July 15
Monday 15 July 2019 | Published in Kata
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: In sickness and in health
Saturday 13 July 2019 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
There were concerns Ariki were complicit in the loss of Cook Islands Maori self-determination, but in the second part in a series, Thomas Wynne says they played a critical role in improving their people’s health and education.
Letters: Tourists safe from godlessness
Saturday 13 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, kia orana! I write in reply to Joe Fox, a successful New York businessman (Letters, July 9) who spent only a week visiting our beautiful Cook Islands.
Letters: Rose Tuki-Brown pales next to Jacinda Ardern
Saturday 13 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, RAT Mave (Letters, July 11) must be commended for illustrating so succinctly what our so-called leaders are about.
Letters: 'Experts' give chlorine no credence
Saturday 13 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I agree entirely with your comment (Editorial, July 12) that “most of us know very little about the science behind water disinfection”.
Kata July 13
Saturday 13 July 2019 | Published in Kata
Kata July 12
Friday 12 July 2019 | Published in Kata
kata July 6
Friday 12 July 2019 | Published in Kata
Talbot walks, Puna talks
Friday 12 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, To the people who find the wage increase of the Cook Islands MPs outrageous I invite you to look at your job, your industry, and figure out what you could do and achieve with an extra $50,000 per year, as Prime Minister Henry Puna gave himself. I invite you to send lists of how $700,000 every year will improve your work, sport and charity.
Shame on those who mistreat their animals
Friday 12 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Those of us working in Avarua yesterday were treated to the sight and sounds of a nearby resident beating the living daylights out of his dog.
Editorial: Sickeningly real impacts on our kids
Friday 12 July 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Opinion
POP QUIZ: NaCL is the formula of Sodium chloride, a strongly-flavoured chemical compound that is key to one of the proposed means of disinfecting Rarotonga’s drinking water. Consumed in sufficient quantities it causes poisoning and death.
My 3c worth
Thursday 11 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana editor, I understand that if the Pacific Games event is for an international qualifying event, then ‘open’ eligibility applies (depending on that international federation’s rules). I believe league Nines fulfils this criteria so the majority of both the men’s and women’s teams came from overseas.
Paying MPs to rake up the leaves
Thursday 11 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Parliament sat for 13 half-days. Let’s round that up to seven full days. Now MPs get an extra $20,000 – that’s an extra $2,857.00 per sitting.
Asking parents about meth
Thursday 11 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In early 2017 I wrote to the then Minister of Health and asked if he would co-ordinate a meeting between his departments of Health and Justice, together with Education and Police, to discuss how government might take a co-ordinated approach to the coming Meth epidemic. The Minister was not convinced the issue was a priority.
Kata July 11
Thursday 11 July 2019 | Published in Kata
We must demand research on water chlorine
Wednesday 10 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Government should stop misleading us about chlorine in our water supply.
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