Opinion
Take a gander at parliamentarian's behaviour
Monday 13 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, You report four youths being investigated for stealing a rental car. What happened to them? Should we send them home and allow them to carry on their lives or should they be accountable?
Under cone of silence
Saturday 11 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Now that the re-sealing of the main road in Muri will shortly be completed, I do hope that the appropriate authorities in government will ensure that the household that has been placing cones on the roadside adjacent to the Muri Food Night Market, in an effort to charge motorists for parking, will be prevented from doing so.
Good luck – we'll certainly need it
Saturday 11 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, You report deputy prime minister Mark Brown took a delegation to China last month, to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Co-operation (“‘Cook Islands attend China forum”, May 4).
MPs' pay rise is a rort
Friday 10 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your article “Public vent at MP pay push” was validation of your publication’s Street Poll, where respondents all agreed our MPs are paid too much. The vast majority of our people locally and our Cookies abroad in Aotearoa, Australia and elsewhere would really disagree with deputy prime minister Mark Brown’s claim that our politicians are due more money because “the MPs have not had a pay rise for 14 years”. (“MPs deserve more pay, says Brown”, April 12).
Kata May 8
Wednesday 8 May 2019 | Published in Kata
Name of Polynesian homeland
Tuesday 7 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In the 1980s I was told on more than one occasion that I needed to go “search for myself” by my mentors, Nga Koumatua.
Kata May 7
Tuesday 7 May 2019 | Published in Kata
How many Parliament days?
Monday 6 May 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Any increase in parliamentary sitting days is always a good thing!
Kata May 3
Saturday 4 May 2019 | Published in Kata
Kata May 2
Thursday 2 May 2019 | Published in Kata
Flying stones
Tuesday 30 April 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Just adding a little more spice to Concerned Motorist’s letter of Saturday April 20.
Kata April 27
Saturday 27 April 2019 | Published in Kata
Kata April 26
Friday 26 April 2019 | Published in Kata
Weed-cutting operation was dangerous to motorcyclists
Monday 22 April 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Around 9 o’clock on Wednesday morning I was witness to three workers simultaneously weed-cutting along both edges of the main road in Tupapa without a care for motorists driving in either direction.
Is it time for a ra'ui on lagoon?
Saturday 20 April 2019 | Published in Opinion
It is so easy to throw stones at others, especially when it comes to the subject of tourism, and I have been guilty of this while not looking in my own backyard and critical of practices by our own Cook Islands Maori with regard to the negative effects of tourism on our infrastructure and environment.
MPs are not worth more of our dollars
Wednesday 17 April 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reading the CI News last Friday it was interesting to see DPM Mark Brown stating that Cook Islands Members of Parliament deserve a pay rise, because they've not had a pay rise for a number of years and it's time they had an increase in their basic rate.
The sweet and bitter taste of tourism
Monday 15 April 2019 | Published in Opinion
It’s like cutting into a thick creamy tower of a cake with our name Cook Islands on it. And as that sharp knife passes through its many layers, we at last get a glimpse of what we expected, and maybe didn’t expect, as each layer reveals itself.
Pardoning Assange a step back to rule of law
Friday 12 April 2019 | Published in Opinion
On April 11, the ongoing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn.
Govt throws all ethics aside
Thursday 11 April 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana Editor, I was stunned to see live on Facebook yesterday, the MP for Avatiu/Rappa being sworn in as an MP.
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