Opinion
Statement by Democratic Party on Pumati Israela
Wednesday 12 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
LAST WEEK executive members of the Democratic Party visited Aitutaki and Mauke to celebrate two very significant events on the respective islands: The closing by-election campaign rally in Are Nikau and the unveiling of the late Mapu Taia’s headstone.
By-election releases
Wednesday 12 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Statement by the Cook Islands Party on Apii
A good time to rethink Te Mato Vai
Wednesday 12 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
TWO YEARS after the most expensive government project in the country - Te Mato Vai - started, a point has been reached that the government should take stock, step back and take a fresh look at this project. Several developments to date have set the scene for this unique opportunity.
Bad-parking fairies at it again
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
ONE OF THE great joys of living on Rarotonga is the fact we can park our motorbikes and motorscooters pretty much anywhere we like.
It's a road, not a rubbish dump
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
AS I WAS DRIVING along the Ara Metua in Turangi, I saw this unsightly pile of rubbish left right in the middle of the road,” a smoke signaller says.
The wonder of living in paradise
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Opinion
I DECIDED to do a random Virtues Pick for this column, and received Wonder.
Tourism should target more affluent visitors
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“I HAVE READ about tourists riding around three and even four to a bike,” a smoke signaller says.
Huge rise in cost of healthy vegetables
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
ONCE AGAIN we’ve been inflicted with the annual three-month levy on imported vegetables.
Cruelty goes further than animals
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
AFTER reading the story about the starving pig in Wednesday’s CI News, I feel broken hearted as to the way some humans treat animals here on Rarotonga. I’m disgusted and join Bastien Welch with feeling very sick to believe someone can treat a living thing with such brutality.
Thanks to hospital staff
Thursday 6 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I RECENTLY had to take my six-year-old son Reed to Rarotonga Hospital to have a minor procedure done in theatre.
Licensing dog owners will make more sense
Thursday 6 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE SPCA is advocating the microchipping of dogs.
Koutu Nui views on purse seining
Thursday 6 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A public meeting has been called by the Aronga Mana of Te Au O Tonga, to be held at 6pm today at the Sinai Hall,
WASHED AWAY PERHAPS?
Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
DURING FRIDAY MORNING’S deluge a person wanting information tried to telephone the Ministry of Marine Resources at about 9.15am.
Urgent action on sharks
Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
YOUR PAPER suggests that Wilkie Rasmussen was preparing Tuesday last week to file an injunction to stop a plan to kill off sharks in the Penrhyn lagoon. He is right: This is urgent.
Limit number of dogs on a property
Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
DOGS HAVE their place as man's best friend, but at the moment that friendship is at breaking point in Rarotonga, anyway.
Our land should not be a commodity
Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Opinion
Today’s opinion column is written by Aitutaki counsellor Thomas Tarurongo Wynne, who this week explores the power of a connection to the land. Wynne is standing in for regular columnist, Norman George, who is in Colombia, South America. He is representing CIFA at the FIFA Futsal World Cup and will return to Rarotonga this month.
An idea for making good use of all those glass bottles
Tuesday 4 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE ADDITION of the new recycling bins in town is a welcome sight. The more we see of these bins, the more they will become part of our psyche and regular habits. We will think it normal to sort our rubbish.
Tui mataiapo title
Tuesday 4 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I READ in the Cook Islands News on Saturday October 1 regarding the investiture of Joseph Taoro to the Tui Mataiapo ritle.
Developer takes 'ghost writer' to task
Tuesday 4 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN RESPONSE to the letter in CI News on September 23 by your new ghost writer Kopu Ariki, headed “Shares worth nothing”, I have to ask how would he know what shares are worth?
Leave stonefish alone
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
HERE WE GO again… Now some masters of the universe want to remove all the stone fish to the other side of the reef. Who are you people to go and disturb their habitat? It is their season so bear with them. Look where you are going: That’s why God gave us eyes. Don’t anybody tell me the tourists won’t come again because we have stonefish. I would choose our environment over tourists, anytime.
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