Opinion
Buggy tour big supporter of Titikaveka ventures
Thursday 14 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT IS a pity that someone feels that the buggy tour is a nuisance and has no benefit to Titikaveka, and therefore should just be a Muri operation.
Bank account tax and matters of interest
Thursday 14 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
AS THE treasurer for an organisation, I noticed that no interest was paid into our BSP savings account for the month of May 2016.
Praying about climate change
Wednesday 13 July 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
IN AN INTERESTING approach to dealing with climate change problems, Pacific Island youth group the Pacific Climate Warriors has launched their latest campaign.
Stop dumping your rubbish on Pukapuka!
Wednesday 13 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I WAS appalled, shocked and angered to see on CITV news on Monday night a graphic article about the Chinese waste, rubbish and other pollutants washed up on the pristine shores of Pukapuka.
Buggy noise
Wednesday 13 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT IS about six months since I last wrote about the noisy yellow buggies that regularly destroy my Sunday reverie in Titikaveka.
Thanks for the kind welcome, Rarotonga
Wednesday 13 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I AM a legal scholar and anthropologist serving as a lecturer as well as Deputy Dean and Director of Teaching and Learning at Newcastle Law School at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
So what's happening with water supplies?
Wednesday 13 July 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
ARE THE MANAGERS at Water Works aware of the very low levels at Avana?
Te au ngakau akatupu pekapeka
Wednesday 13 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
KIA ORANA e taku iti tangata maori i Rarotonga nei e to vao ake ia Rarotonga.
Kava issue raises cultural questions
Wednesday 13 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
DR APOROSA raises many interesting points about kava (CI News June 11 and July 9), but he is wasting his time trying to revive interest in it here.
Compulsory reading
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
REGARDING THOMAS WYNNE’S article in Friday’s paper, I wonder if the PM or MPs or HOMs in all of their travels all over the world have ever had to eat a “wind burger.” It was a heart-wrenching article and all the Members of Parliament should be ashamed that it had to have been written.
Please explain!
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
CAN SOMEONE explain to us the audience to the CI political soap drama how does Puna have a majority government?
Kia orana e te etita e 'Less is Better'
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MEITAKI maata no taau reta, kare teia ite taitoito atu i toou manako.
Cook Islands better off than some
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THOMAS Wynne’s latest feature on the population and cost of living says it like it is, but will anyone with the power to make decisions take any notice?
Norman George replies: The question is, was the opposition even invited to attend the Ui Ariki Day celebrations?
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
From experience, the QR and government of the day through its cabinet ministers and its MPs usually take centre stage, while the opposition is not given any official role to play.
Opposition MPs deemed 'pathetic'
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
ON MONDAY the opposition complained in CI News and on Radio NZ about the Queen’s Representative not being present for the Ui Ariki Day celebrations.
Basking in the glory of Ariki Day 50th
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I AM still basking in the reflected glory and pageantry of the House of Ariki 50th anniversary celebrations, after their legal establishment under the Cook Islands Constitution as amended in 1966 by the Government of our first Premier, the late Papa Arapati Henry.
Spiritual discipline calls for language of virtues
Monday 11 July 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
AS A CHILD, were you ever growled, smacked, or beaten, leaving you hurt, feeling worthless, shamed and humiliated?
Body tells the story
Friday 8 July 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“AFTER LISTENING TO an interview with Finance minister Mark Brown on radio and the question posed with regards to the body language displayed by the PM at Ui Ariki Day, I agree with William,” a smoke signaller says.
Get off the road
Friday 8 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
AFTER admitting to the paper that he does not know a lot about politics, you have to hand it to Albert Nicholas for announcing he would take the deputy PM’s position only if clean, no hiding-behind-closed-doors tactics were used.
Brown for PM?
Friday 8 July 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I THINK Rose Brown would make a good Prime Minister for the Cook Islands.
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