Opinion
More to 'back road' than meets the eye
Tuesday 4 July 2017 | Published in Opinion
Driving around the “back road” you wouldn’t know or often remember that right beneath our feet, lies one of the greatest ancient building achievements of Eastern Polynesia.
Clear lessons from teachable moments
Tuesday 4 July 2017 | Published in Opinion
Have you ever piled your plate and overstuffed yourself at a big feed, from a table loaded with your favorite dishes and desserts?
Departure lounge loo not a good look for tourists
Friday 30 June 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
Smoke signaller who was in the departure lounge at Rarotonga International Airport recently says the lounge facilities need to be much more closely monitored.
Kare e na te teina e apii i te tuakana
Friday 30 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
E pa’uanga teia I te reta a te tangata tavini o te Kaumaiti o te Are Ariki i te ra 28 o Tiunu.
Some questions for the Chamber of Commerce
Friday 30 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Chamber of Commerce, we are led to believe, is the voice of business in the Cook Islands (read that as “Rarotonga” if you like).
Tourists rip off medical system
Wednesday 28 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I would like to raise an issue on our guest visitors that have been treated in our hospital here in Rarotonga who did not pay their kaiou before they left the island.
Invitation to air views on PM's turou on radio
Wednesday 28 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Tumu Manako: Taku Peu. Naai?
Well done to Ben the traffic cop
Tuesday 27 June 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
Hats off to Ben Haurua who took charge of the traffic hold-up at Panama the other day when a tanker hauler broke down straddling both lanes of the main road.
Tradition can be hit or myth
Tuesday 27 June 2017 | Published in Opinion
Interesting is an understatement when we once again have to re-examine what is culture and what isn’t after the incident at Atupare Marae with the welcome of Prime Minister Bill English to the Marae and an “Aotearoa Maori” style welcome as witnessed by those present and the picture in the paper.
Buying votes not best way to spend
Monday 26 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The most notable item with the current Budget presented by the Minister of Finance Mark Brown is the $34 increase of child benefit, taking to $100 a month.
Back at last! It's great parliament is finally sitting
Monday 26 June 2017 | Published in Opinion
I am very happy that parliament is sitting and the Members of Parliament can now get on with the business that they were elected to perform.
Parliament needs advice from Kiwi expert
Monday 26 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I was interested to hear the Speaker on Thursday announce the presence here of a former Deputy Clerk of the NZ parliament, Debra Angus, to assist in a review of the Parliamentary Standing Orders and I would suggest such review is not before time.
Landowners frustrated too
Thursday 22 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I read with interest Arthur Pickering’s story of his frustration with the government for not considering the consequences of actions government takes without consultation with stakeholders.
Thank you Thomas Wynne
Thursday 22 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Saturday’s CI News had Thomas Wynne’s plea that as a culture we get around to fixing decades of turning a blind eye to the systematic sexual abuse of our women and girls and on the facing page NZ Prime Minister Bill English crowing about the $15 million that NZ is to contribute to a submarine cable to allow us to play video games all the faster.
Excuses, but no proof, over PM's welcome
Thursday 22 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Obviously the House of Ariki president and his advisers needed to justify to their many critics why they copied the New Zealand Maori custom of wero on their marae for the occasion of the New Zealand PM's visit.
Fines should quieten noisy dogs
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
Dog problem. If the police start giving out fines to households for breaking the law concerning dogs maybe we will see more Dog Officers than Traffic Officers.
For those who don't follow vaka-jumping laws
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The front page story in the Saturday edition about Rose Brown shows some political hangers-on still don’t understand the law about “vaka jumping”.
Smiley not best choice to lead
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Demos have done it again.
Final nail in coalition coffin?
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It should be clarified that the member for Teenui-Mapumai Rose Brown made her arbitrary decision to leave the Cook Islands Party following PM Puna’s “gift” of a ministerial position (complete with large salary plus all the “ministerial extras”) which was offered to the then- Demo MP Albert Nicholas of RAPPA, to actively entice him to leave the Demo Party and cross the floor, to join with the CIP government as a new Crown minister.
No, the minister for Agriculture hasn't disappeared
Monday 19 June 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
“It was good to see Kiriau Turepu opening the new mural at the new National Environment Service building,” a smoke signaller says.
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