Opinion
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.
Outcome of meeting at Avana
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THOSE WHO read a public notice of the meeting called by the Avana Fishing Club re their proposed slipway and harbour reclamation may be interested in the outcome.
Justice staff do their best
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I SPENT some of last week at the Ministry of Justice, dealing with land matters.
Pay could be issue with resort workers
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN REGARD to Greg Stanaway's media release in response to public comment over Pacific Resort Aitutaki employment practices, the Pacific Resort Hotel Group is indeed known for a good percentage of local as opposed to foreign workers, but one would hope 100 per cent local was the goal.
Purse seine report shows an opportunity missed
Saturday 1 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT SEEMED a pity to me when I read the story in your paper about the report of the select committee on the EU purse seine deal, that an opportunity has been missed here to try and bridge the differences on what is clearly a very divisive issue.
New fees too much
Friday 30 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE PROPOSED new fees at the Ministry of Justice are so exorbitant that they would be condemned as “price gouging” and struck down by the official consumer watchdog if it happened in Australia, for example.
Waters still muddy on household fees
Friday 30 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN A recent radio talkback programme, Infrastructure Minister Teariki Heather was praising the virtues of Tonga and their water system, which is entirely self-funded.
Tourism worse than seabed mining
Friday 30 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I AM concerned about the view of the letter-writer "Realist," who referred to the seabed mining industry as, "an ugly industry such as mining that will undoubtedly destroy our marine environment and marine life or to continue with tourism with has contributed so much to our economic wellbeing".
Just read that Act
Thursday 29 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
RE THE smoke signal “A question and another”, published in CI News recently.
Roading decisions call for answers
Thursday 29 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT WAS great to read about the Minister of Finance announcing the $8 million-dollar commitment to the island’s road network over the next four years.
Shark cull plan 'disgusting'
Thursday 29 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IF IT is true, then news that the Cook Islands government is planning a shark cull in Tongareva, and has supported an ongoing shark cull in Pukapuka, is disgusting.
Shares worth nothing
Wednesday 28 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I AM not sure why CI News keeps giving Tepaki and his schemes publicity, but could we please have a reality check?
All of our laws wide open to abuse
Wednesday 28 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN REGARD to the story headlined “Call to change fishing laws,” on page one of CI News on Thursday, September 22.
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