Opinion
Charges versus those wages...
Saturday 4 February 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
STANDING IN THE long queue at one of the banks this morning I was pondering over the bank charges for their various services and wondering...
Wright's resignation a blow for rugby
Saturday 4 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I am deeply disappointed, saddened, but not surprised at the actions of the CIRU executive in terminating national rugby coach Stanley Wright.
Island health services in dire need
Friday 3 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
We are writing to express our grave concerns and those of our fellow resident Mangaians about the health care situation on the island.
Where's the drivel?
Friday 3 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
PS: To the smoke signaller: As you clearly pointed out, no one group of people has a monopoly on being racist; it is a human condition we have all experienced in one way or another.
Chamber of Commerce clarification helpful
Friday 3 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I would like to thank Jaewynn McKay and the Chamber of Commerce for their letter responding to comments made in my Column Saturday on January 31, 2017.
PM's tourism comments stick to the bright side
Thursday 2 February 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
THE PM’S COLUMN on the growth and development of tourism may be rosy and all good for his government’s revenue, but he avoids the negative impacts of tourism, a smoke signaller says.
Watch out for that algae
Thursday 2 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE TWO recent articles in Cook Islands News, first the Tourism Corporation patting itself on the back, and then the footloose prime minister patting the Tourism Corporation on the back, come suspiciously soon after the most recent public outrage at government and the Tourism Corporation fiddling while the algae eats up Muri lagoon and social media continues to spread the story as fast as the algae itself is spreading.
Chamber benefits 'local' business
Thursday 2 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE EXECUTIVE of the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce noted with interest the comments by Thomas Wynne from the prime minister’s office in last Saturday’s CI News.
Green weed a bad look for our precious lagoon
Wednesday 1 February 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
THE FACT THAT the lagoon is deteriorating rapidly has been brought home to an Arorangi resident who says when he went for a swim at high tide last week, he was disgusted at the amount of green weed floating around on the surface.
Inquiry slap in the face for NZ relationship
Wednesday 1 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
WHEN IT was announced earlier this month by PM Puna that government had decided to select an Australian citizen, former Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Denis McDermott, and retired former Cook Islands Police Commissioner Tevai Matapo, to be their two-man team to head a Commission of Inquiry into last year’s shooting incident, my first thought was that this was simply not good enough.
Stan Wright has his final word
Tuesday 31 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
KIA ORANA to the people of the Cook Islands.
Hard work and vision grows tourism
Tuesday 31 January 2017 | Published in Opinion
I wish to publicly congratulate Tourism Corporation chairman, Ewan Smith and his board, chief executive Halatoa Fua, Karla Eggleton and your team for your continued vision and hard work to manage and grow our tourism industry well above your expectations and goals.
De-sex and care for your dogs
Monday 30 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
THE CRUELTY SHOWN to those poor dogs featured in CI News this week was appalling,” a smoke signaller says.
Signaller owes a big apology to our women
Monday 30 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE SMOKE Signaller who claims that women should have more babies instead of being encouraged to stand in parliament clearly is not of this century or is very anti-women.
Shame on resorts banning pool use
Monday 30 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I WRITE in disappointment at the fact that Rarotonga has, for the most part, now become one of the Pacific Islands that excludes patrons from the friendliness and patronage of using their facilities.
The real reasons Wright wants change
Monday 30 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
NATIONAL rugby 15s coach Stanley Wright’s comments contained in an article in Wednesday 25 January’s CI News, regarding the issue of CIRU’s governance structure and other rugby matters.
Illness brings a huge 'teachable moment'
Monday 30 January 2017 | Published in Opinion
A FIRST Nations Tlingit elder once told me, “Life is for learning our lessons. Virtues are the lessons.”
Festive timing of tax 'amnesty' a bit suspect
Friday 27 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
THE HENRY PUNA and Mark Brown Christmas tax amnesty announced before December 25 is suspicious to say the least.
Tim Tepaki Aid for tax offenders unfair on those who pay
Friday 27 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I really object to the fact that helping repeat offenders should even have been considered for this tax amnesty declared by the prime minister.
Better Kata
Friday 27 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT HAS to be said that Kata’s cartoon on January 25 is an improvement on the Kata of January 16 in terms of pictures, but what’s with the play on words?
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