Opinion
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.
PM's renewable energy comments fairy tale stuff
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT WAS NICE to read our PM’s fairy tale/story about us leading the way as an observer for renewable energy conservation to IRENA.
Tax rules for some don't apply to others...
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
LATE IN 2016 a Grey Power member requested information from New Zealand through the Official Information Act, to confirm the number of New Zealand pensions being paid in the Cook Islands.
Chinese president trumps Donald on the golf course
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MAY I suggest that Kata’s virtually picture-less cartoon of January 16 was substantially below par?
Tourists not to blame for plight of needy
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
REGARDING the letter published in the CI News on Monday January 16, we feel it is necessary to respond to "Shameful".
Attitude to plastic not so fantastic...
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
“I WATCHED WHILE the driver of the rubbish truck indicated to his work mate that the large bag of plastic bottles carefully separated for collection by an environmentally aware business should be tossed into the back of the truck instead of the recycling,”
Time for action on tax offenders
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
LOVE the interview in CI News last Saturday with Mark Brown on the tax amnesty for penalty arrears of over 20 years.
Too many guns for such a small island
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
OH MY GOSH! are you kidding me?
Speaker's comments on the money
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
NIKKI Rattle wants more women in parliament and after the past few years of watching the male dominated, egocentric CIP government who are all male, notice Henry Puna has never given any of the women MPs a portfolio.
Cook Islands shows the way in renewable energy
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Opinion
DURING its five-year history, the International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA, based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has invited us to their annual meetings every year for the past four years.
How about a speed gun?
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
A SMOKE SIGNALLER complains that as he was tootling along towards Blackrock at the legal 40km/h he was almost knocked off his scooter by the whoosh of air created as a helmetless middle-aged local rider zoomed by him at an incredible rate of knots.
Tourism eats too much of fiscal pie
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE GOVERNMENT'S funding priorities continue to be misaligned with far too much of the Budget going to the Ministry of Tourism. Taxpayers pay for flight subsidies and for visiting travel journalists to get wined and dined.
Helmet crackdown, alcohol ignored
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
WE ARE two weeks into the new year and no deaths on our roads - which is a wonderful thing.
Name and shame these tax avoiders
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THERE are two things in this world you can't avoid - death and taxes, but not here in the Crook islands.
Is the Elvis convention in Australia a coincidence?
Monday 16 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
WHAT A COINCIDENCE, Henry Puna has gone to Australia and guess what? There is an Elvis Presley Convention on in New South Wales from January 11-15. No sign of the PM on the list of guest artists, though.
Choose to live life courageously
Monday 16 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THIS WEEK I was watching on television the US Senator Jeff Sessions being given a grilling by the US Senate, as he wants to be appointed Attorney General for the Trump-led US government.
Govt priorities misdirected
Monday 16 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE GOVERNMENT'S funding priorities continue to be misaligned, with far too much of the budget going to the Ministry of Tourism.
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