Opinion
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.
Police need more pay
Thursday 8 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I WAS reading a letter in CI News the other week in regard to police officers’ pay.
Service with a smile
Wednesday 7 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A SMOKE signaller wrote something in CI News recently how everyone has a bad day at work now and again.
Fiji school visit food for thought
Wednesday 7 September 2016 | Published in Opinion
DRIVING along dusty roads, through a development project that we are told has been going on for three years, I struggled to see many workers working on the road as we scuttled past in our taxi.
Swearing on TV not appreciated
Tuesday 6 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“THE SEVEN DAYS TV programme on Friday night was disgusting, with swearing flowing freely like nobody’s business,” a smoke signaller says.
Kiwi invention recycles plastic
Tuesday 6 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE EXCITING thing about living in today’s technological society is that there are amazing people still inventing amazing machines that can help us clean up our many mistakes we have made along the way.
'Big Tuna' letter is, in fact, not right
Monday 5 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
REGARDING the letter in last week’s CI News written by “Big Tuna,” it is true that Mr Bishop was charged with bribery and corruption.
Chemicals within plastic bottles are a danger
Monday 5 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE PROBLEM with plastic bottles starts well before they become unwanted and lie around our beaches and roads.
Is this the end for One Cook Islands movement?
Friday 2 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“Now the corrupt Teina Bishop has been sentenced this should spell the end of OCI as a viable political movement,” a smoke signaler says.
Life in 'paradise' not what it seems
Friday 2 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
There is something not right in paradise: Two suicides in two weeks, two young boys.
Fish and licences peoples' property
Friday 2 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Papa Williams (CI News August 30) is not thinking clearly.
Talking can help save lives
Thursday 1 September 2016 | Published in Opinion
This article, written for CI News by the head counsellor of Punanga Tauturu Inc, Nga Teinangaro, should be required reading for anyone suffering from depression or worry and other issues.
Cook Islands ariki lose grip on their tribes
Wednesday 31 August 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“I COMMEND TANIARA Mataroa for being brave enough to speak up on the issue of our so-called ambassador for the royal council,” a smoke signaller says.
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