Opinion
Anyone for a game of chess?
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
BROWN, BROWN, HEATHER, Heather, Pitt, Pitt, Puna, Pawn. No wonder Parliament is a mess. The lines are blurred on the chess board, there is no Bishop and by George, it looks like the Queen has all the moves!
Finance minister stands by his texts to Rose
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
JOHN SCOTT seems to take voyeuristic delight in sharing in his most recent letter the private and personal text messages between myself and Rose Brown. I guess this is the journalistic equivalent of sniffing someone's used underwear.
Police need to give us some answers
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
SOMEONE needs to clarify exactly what it is that the Cook Islands Police Service wants from pet owners.
Fishing report issues clarified
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I WISH to correct the misleading statements in the Cook Islands News of Wednesday September 14 by MP James Beer regarding the final report of the Parliamentary Purse Seine Fishing Special Select Committee and also explain the true situation.
MPs race through one-sided sitting
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
YOU COULD almost detect a sense of jubilation and achievement filling the airwaves as parliament raced through the remaining business on the Order Paper on Tuesday.
Cartoon remark is on the money
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
CAN YOU believe PM Puna calling the opposition “childish” for not turning up for a sitting of parliament?
Cops not best choice for 'policing' animals
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IS THE government planning on establishing an entity here to “police” the animals?
Wrong about Nicholas
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I REALLY don’t have much to say in response to George Turias childish outburst. Politicians are expected to have thick skin and not let personal insults get to them. His words have as much value as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
TV interview shows Nicholas in bad light
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
RAPPA voters, don’t be conned by Albert Nicholas trying to justify himself on CITV last Friday evening as to why he joined the government team.
Careless weed spraying dangerous for everyone
Wednesday 14 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“DRIVING ALONG A back road recently, I rounded a corner and was suddenly caught up in a strong mist of bug spray which was being used on water melons.”
Strange goings-on at parliament
Wednesday 14 September 2016 | Published in Opinion
MONDAY’S boycott of parliament by the opposition has an awful strained logic about it, if only in the mind of a Democratic Party theorist.
Here's how to change your life for the better
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Opinion
HERE’S A tip that will magically change your life for the better. It will lift your spirits and bring joy to everyone around you.
Anyone for Golf?
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
IT’S GREAT TO see businesses on the island like the new Mini Golf in Arorangi that provide our young people with activities. I believe these are the kinds of things that keep the younger generation occupied and out of trouble.
Audacious Demos doing right thing
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Tropical Chronicles
I HAVE long advocated for the Democratic Party to boot Albert Nicholas out of the party he had betrayed and abandoned.
Collar says it all...
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
SOMEONE needs to tell tourists that if a dog is wearing a collar, but is following you along a road or a beach to your resort, it is hanging around you because you’ve given it food. Chances are that when you drop them off at SPCA or Esther Honey as a “stray”, the kind people there are going to tell you that a universal sign of pet ownership is — you guessed it — a collar.
Brown, Tangi and Rattle in strife
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Readers of my letters will be only too aware of the strong criticism I have levelled on several occasions that parliament is suffering acutely from not just a paucity of talent, but a far more serious impediment, namely an absence of impartiality in its two principal officers, the Speaker and the Clerk of Parliament.
Brown lacks respect, says OCI head
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE OUTBURST by Mark Brown in Saturday’s CINews cannot go without response.
'Paraquat is my friend,' says hard-hitting local farmer
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
ALLOW me to put in my ideas regarding some Professors of Star Gazing who deem to say that paraquat should be banned.
Some thoughts on the meaning of 'corruption'
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Reading the letters to the editor, there seems to be a lot of confusion about the meaning of the word “corruption”.
Letter shows up hypocrisy in our society
Friday 9 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THANK YOU "Big Tuna" for your interesting response to my letter published in CI News on August 31 because you have made it quite clear with your letter, that we do in fact have contradiction and hypocrisy well enmeshed, and seemingly accepted, within our society.
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