Opinion
Case illustrates nature of corruption
Tuesday 1 November 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN MY last letter I explained how corruption covered a wide range of misconduct by public officials and how only the most serious types of corruption were crimes.
Drug tests needed
Monday 31 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
CAN WE PLEASE Institute random drug checks for our “honourable” Members of Parliament?
Waste material dumping upsets Swiss visitors
Monday 31 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
AS REGULAR visitors to the Cook Islands we are saddened and shocked to see what is happening to this once unspoiled paradise.
Of cats and widespread algae
Monday 31 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A COUPLE of brief observations on recent news items.
Pay police more
Friday 28 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
I one hundred per cent agree with the smoke signaller who said our police officers deserve a wage increase. I hear they get paid peanuts and it is barely a liveable income. Why are our police severely underpaid and withheld from a well-deserving, and fully justifiable income? And not to forget the police are in need of much better resources, especially after last week’s incident.
Tourism budget more than health and education spending combined
Friday 28 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
In reply to “Keep the Subsidy” (CI News October 27), the MFEM Budget Book 2 shows the following estimates for 2016/17.
Some ideas for protecting precious lagoon
Friday 28 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I recently spent an enjoyable two-week holiday on your island paradise, with my family from Sydney. After a five-year absence it was great to be back again.
Source of Muri weed hardly rocket science
Friday 28 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The ongoing debate on the algal bloom or seaweed problem in the Muri lagoon environment has become very tiresome, with the same old repetitive arguments by everyone with a point of view on what caused it, who is to blame, what’s the solution, who’s to pay for it, etc, etc.
Shootings wakeup call for all
Friday 28 October 2016 | Published in Opinion
Last week’s Vaimaanga shootings are a wakeup call for all of us.
SIMPLE SOLUTION
Thursday 27 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
A SMOKE SIGNALLER says a trigger lock is the best possible solution to curb the issue with guns.
It's the wrong time for political posturing
Thursday 27 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT’S A BIT rich for the prime minister to start heaping praise on the police after the events following the fatal shootings, as quoted in his article in Monday’s CI News.
More on controversial Makea title
Thursday 27 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I JUST want to add a few more points to the letter by Ngatokorua Ata Piakura in CI News on October 10. He is absolutely correct about confusion over the Makea title and perhaps it is about time this whole issue was brought out in public.
Airline subsidy critics off the mark
Thursday 27 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THERE SEEMS to be a bit of misinformation being bandied about by the critics of the $12 million airline subsidy scheme as compared to what is being spent on education and on health combined.
Time has arrived for fresh look at police funding
Tuesday 25 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
AFTER LAST WEEK’S tragic event with the police being called into the most dangerous of incidents. I think it is time for the government to address the issue of police funding,
Police have questions to answer
Tuesday 25 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT IS only right that Police Commissioner Maara Tetava should commend his staff involved in the recent horror situation which has taken place.
PM's whereabouts clarified
Tuesday 25 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THERE seems to be some confusion as to the prime minister’s whereabouts when two lives were taken by a crazed gunman last Tuesday, before he turned the gun on himself and took his own life the following day (Wednesday).
Rarotonga feels like bouncy floating hotel
Monday 24 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I AM glad to read that there will be public consultations on the airline underwrite programme.
Tourism response over subsidies is 'nonsense'
Monday 24 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN HIS response to my comments, (CI News October 21), Cook Islands Tourism chief executive Halatoa Fua didn’t offer a single answer to my analysis of the Market Economics Report, except to claim that the subsidies are “clearly positive".
Let a customer explain cost of new justice fees
Monday 24 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I HAVE read the recent letters to the editor regarding the new Land Court fees and the responses by the Justice Head of Ministry.
An outer island view on the airline subsidy
Monday 24 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
YOUR WRITER Mata Atua McNair certainly made a strong Rarotonga-based case for ending the airline subsidy, however, she missed out the case for the rest of the Cook Islands.
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