Opinion
Documents 'all good' for paradise plan
Tuesday 1 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Merchant of Paradise (MOP) has received its copy of the tender documents for Vaimaanga and I am able to confirm that nothing in those documents supports the rumours flying around that government has been looking to take over the Vaimaanga project.
No conspiracy, just a question
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to your headline ‘NZ cable conspiracy’ and the letter underneath written by ‘Very Very Concerned’.
Demo manifesto – truth versus honesty
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The letter from ‘Honest is Best’ in the Monday, April 23 edition of CINews is obviously anti-Demo and Pro-CIP.
Solving the lyrics of 'Te Pare Ukarau'
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have just recently returned from New Zealand a few weeks ago, and whilst there I had an elated reunion with my two oldest sisters, Naomi Tereua Mangi (76 years old, my half-sister) and Pururangi Tekopua (62 years old).
Boundaries prepare children for wise choices
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
During our lifetime, we often come to a crossroads and must decide what direction to take.
History depends on who tells the story
Monday 30 April 2018 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
Standing in a marbled two story private school in Ankara in Turkey back in 2006, I looked up over the main entrance and there was a picture of one of Turkey’s if not the world’s’ greatest statesmen, Mustafa Ataturk.
Issues dog project
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The proposal for Te Mato Vai project was to reticulate new water pipework around Rarotonga and construct new reservoirs and water treatment stations.
'Government of compromise' best result
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The best outcome for the upcoming election I can see is CIP 10 seats, the Demos 10 seats, One Cook Islands four.
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”.
Demos want a positive election
Monday 23 April 2018 | Published in Opinion
Despite the constant sniping by Minister of Finance Mark Brown on television, the Democratic Party is not going to go down the “eye for an eye” campaign direction.
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:
Lessons to learn from children
Monday 23 April 2018 | Published in Opinion
An Aitutaki papa was reminiscing recently about the good old days, describing how fishermen came back with a tuna and made sure to share it with all the families before taking some home to their own.
In the eye of a media storm
Monday 23 April 2018 | Published in Opinion
Two firestorms have raged in the news media and on social media lately and both have clear messages for us all.
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.
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