Opinion
Energy projects a fairy tale come true
Friday 27 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I REFER to the smoke signaller whose contribution appeared under the headline, “PM’s renewable energy comments fairy tale stuff,” in CI News on January 18.
Politicians can travel overseas, but we can't afford doctors
Thursday 26 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
SAYS A SMOKE SIGNALLER: “Regarding the front page article in Monday’s CI News about the islands that no longer have a doctor, it is just sickening reading this, especially we can afford air ambulance to evacuate a cabinet minister’s daughter to New Zealand and we can also pay for frequent overseas trips by certain politicians. So sad.
Akarana visit raises crucial questions
Thursday 26 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE ADDITION of more sophisticated medical equipment to our local hospital could help reduce needless deaths from illness and diseases, says Koutu Nui president Paul Allsworth.
PM gives blessing on us not paying tax
Wednesday 25 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
PRIME minister Henry Puna made a public announcement a couple of days before Christmas Day and declared a tax amnesty, with a starting date of December 31, 2015.
Opposition did not question evacuation costs
Wednesday 25 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
NEGATIVE comments were made publicly during the recent bereavement for Deputy Prime Minister Teariki Heather’s wife Tarome that the coalition opposition was questioning the cost of the medical evacuation of his daughter to New Zealand.
Top 10pc are the CIP's new 'grassroots'
Wednesday 25 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MINISTER Brown has told the Cook Islands News (January 20), “The government wants to give an opportunity to all Cook Islanders to benefit from this (tax amnesty).”
We're being ripped off!
Tuesday 24 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
“WHY DO WE have to pay such outrageous prices for such an inferior broadband service?” a smoke signaller asks.
Good on you Tapi, for telling the story
Tuesday 24 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I COMMEND this country's major domestic shipping owner Tapi Taio for having the guts to come out in public and expose the political interference and favouritism that goes on at the port of Avatiu.
Waterfall fee not OK
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
SINCE when did it become okay to hold tourists up at the road entrance by the old Sheraton and demand five bucks to go and see the waterfall?
Different rules for different folks
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
SEEMS LIKE THE idea of one rule for some taxpayers and another rule for those close to politicians also applies to the road rules. Spotted driving through town midday on Wednesday of last week, one 18 or 19-year-old daughter of a cabinet minister, on a bike without a helmet. No worries, it’s who you know, not what you know, that is important in the Crook Islands.
Finance minister needs some lessons about taxation
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Can someone please tell the minister for finance the purpose of tax?
Lagoon crisis response 'incompetent'
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE COMBINED government department response to the crisis in Muri lagoon remains, if not criminal, then incompetent in the extreme.
Living by virtues the doorway to happiness
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Opinion
DO YOU love your life? If you do, it’s a sure sign you’re living by your virtues, because they are the portals to happiness, the essence of a well-lived life. Many people ask, what are virtues? There’s nothing new about love, nothing original about justice.
Brown's tax cut fails to impress
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
FINANCE MINISTER MARK Brown’s promised one per cent tax cut hasn’t impressed one smoke signaller, who has labelled it pathetic.
CIRU president clarifies sevens issue
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
REGARDING the article in Thursday’s newspaper quoting the Cook Islands Rugby Union 15s coach Stan Wright that the U18s sevens team which participated in the inaugural World Schools 7s tournament in Auckland, New Zealand on 17 December 2016 “was done on our own without any help or encouragement from CIRU executives”.
Knight that man!
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
TAPI TAIO of Taio Shipping should be knighted for the work his company has done as a local business.
Our neighbours the ones really leading the way
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
WHEN IT comes to leading the Pacific in policy on climate change as per prime minister Henry Puna’s weekly column recently, the fact that this man can talk his way into free trips to Abu Dhabi on a regular basis is testament only to his ability to croon.
'They're making us second class citizens'
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE DECISION to use nurses rather than doctors in the outer islands is all part of the rundown of government services everywhere except the tourist islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Proud legacy of medical care squandered
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
ONE OF NEW Zealand’s great achievements, when it was the colonial power in the Cook Islands was that by 1955 permanent medical staff were stationed on all inhabited islands of the Cook Islands, a smoke signaller says.
Tax amnesty poor start to government's year
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN MY opinion, PM Henry Puna and his CIP government have openly misgoverned our country over the last few years.
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